NEWS

      

02-05-2009: Holotz's Castle 1.3.14 has been released. In this version:

  • Serbian translation (Thanks, Nikola Smolenski!)

28-11-2008: Holotz's Castle 1.3.13 has been released. In this version:

  • Toy mode!
  • Sound preferences corrected

30-08-2008: Holotz's Castle 1.3.12 has been released. In this version:

  • Swedish translation (Thanks, Syltbullen!)

23-08-2008: Holotz's Castle 1.3.11 has been released. In this version:

  • Dutch translation and joystick support (Thanks, Jarno van der Kolk!)
  • PPC patch (Thanks, Jason Woofenden!)
  • (Finally!) Included add-on levels (Thanks, Milan Babuškov!)

07-06-2007: Holotz's Castle 1.3.10 has been released. In this version:

  • Italian translation (Thanks, Federico "hs1" Tolomei!)

02-03-2007: Holotz's Castle 1.3.9 has been released. In this version:

  • Portuguese translation (Thanks, Filipe Silva!)
  • True English translation :) (Thanks, Ben Wong!)

01-23-2006: Holotz's Castle 1.3.8 has been released. In this version:

  • Porting to FreeBSD (Thanks, Pierre-Paul Lavoie!)
  • Updates to the German translation (Thanks, Ronny Standtke!)
  • Fixed a bug making the game to return to the menu when it shouldn't

    • Also, the videos with the solution to the levels are available in the game page.

    - Whoa! I've just seen them and they are awesome, I can't wait to go to my local game store and buy the game!

    - Stupid! The game is free as in 'free beer' and as in 'freedom' and you can download it from here

11-14-2005: Holotz's Castle 1.3.7 has been released. In this version:

  • Added Czech translation (Thanks, Filip (Triple T) Bártek!)
  • Updates to the German translation (Thanks, Ronny Standtke!)
  • Fixed some bugs

    • We also want to thank all the people that created packages for other linux distros and for reviewing the game.
    Some links to reviews as well as links to packages for different linux distributions have been added to Holotz's Castle page

05-03-2005: Holotz's Castle 1.3.6 has been released. This version adds PowerPC support (real, before was an illusion) and the Ukranian translation... Thanks, Maksim Mokriyev!

04-14-2005: Holotz's Castle 1.3.5 has been released. This version adds AMD64 support for the source distribution... Thanks, Andreas Jochens!

04-04-2005: Holotz's Castle 1.3.4 has been released. This version contains the Euskara translation... Thanks, 3ARRANO Euskalgintza!

03-19-2005: Holotz's Castle 1.3.3 has been released. This version contains the Russian translation... Thanks, Vyacheslav Dikonov! Moreover, now Ybelle and Ludar have feet-sliders to avoid getting stucked in the floor sometimes.

02-14-2005: Holotz's Castle 1.3.2 has been released. The great change is the addition of french to the available languages (thanks to Nicolas Elie!). Also, now the stories are sorted alphabetically in the game menu.

02-12-2005: Holotz's Castle has Debian packages thanks to Miriam Ruiz!! From Lizarno we want to thank her the great effort. You can download them from the game download page. If you're Debianite... Don't miss it!

02-10-2005: There's a new version of Holotz's Castle! This version allows to select the stories to play from the game menu and also adds support to create new stories with custom themes without making use of the command line at all (but you still can use it if you like!).

If you plan to create new stories, don't forget to check out the animation editor for holotz castle: JSprited.

Don't miss it and be the next to continue the Holotz's Castle Saga!!

- Psst! Hey, you!

- Hum?

- I've heard that our friends will be soon in a big Linux distro...

- Oh! Tell me which one it is, please, please!

- Well, well, it is... (TADAAAA!!): 'Holotz's Linux' (har, har, har!)

01-17-2005: Happy new year everyone! There's a new version of Holotz's Castle! This version adds new exciting levels and concludes the story of Ybelle and Ludar. Also the german players can ejoy it in their native language (thanks to Markus Rath for the translation!).

Also, Mainreactor has decided to release its most secret tool to create sprites: JSprited. With it you'll be able to create brand new characters, items, and enemies for Holotz's Castle. Check it out!

12-25-2004: MERRY XMAS everyone! Lots of great things had happened since the last news posted. Firstly, thanx to all the people that played the game you are the best!

Milan Babuškov has released a set of twelve challenging levels with lots of fun in them. You can download them here. Don't forget to download his other games, NJAM and Abandoned bricks there are lots of fun waiting for you into those!

- Eh! And what about Ybelle and Ludar? We have to know what happened to them...

- Oh, the team of Lizarno is just fixing the final details. They say the story will be concluded in the next few days... Don't forget to check it out, lots of new levels will be waiting for you!

11-01-2004: Version 1.2 released! This version fixes some previous bugs and allows building under Windows/MinGW.

10-28-2004: News added!

- Huh??? Then how did those bellow appear?

- Oh, well news only materialized, they already existed in a parallel dimension...

10-25-2004: Holotz's Castle released! After six months of hard work it finally became reality.

05-06-2004: MainReactor is up and running!