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Patch 0.13.0: Center Stage

The pick, the fight, and the final bow all take the stage. This patch rebuilds the two screens you spend the most time in. Drafting your team is now the full-viewport

Patch 0.12.0: House Rules

A tidier wallet, cosmetics that show what they are, and the ground rules everyone plays by. Here is the short version. Before anyone takes the field, everyone now

Patch v0.11.4: Battle Lab, the Grand Vault, Staking, and Loyalty

An omnibus drop. Review-mode Battle Lab, a fully redesigned wallet, STEL staking, the SIGIL currency, and the Golem Overlord loyalty migration all land together.

Apple Said Yes. I Wasn't Expecting That.

Sometimes life surprises you, and every now and then, it does so in a good way. Truth be told, I was fully expecting Apple to reject the newest update to Snapie

Patch 0.11.3: Make Your Mark

Your items, your emblem, your colors. Everything you collect is now everything you show. Here is the short version. Your cosmetics become collectible items with

The Encoding Gateway Has Officially Retired

As most of you who follow this blog know, Tibs and I have spent the past month transitioning @threespeak into a new era. Most of the heavy lifting is done, but there

Patch 0.11.0: Face to Face

Every battle opens on a stare-down now, and your profile is the face you bring to the fight. This patch is about the moment before the dice fall. Every match now

Today Was a Good Day for Snapie

A few weeks ago, when my brother came to visit, he brought me two important gifts: his old laptop and a bottle of single malt whisky. Arguably one of the best

We Said We'd Market Stellarch. The Push Has Started.

A great game nobody hears about Building Stellarch is half the work. The other half is making sure the right people actually find it. We told you we'd build this

Patch 0.10.0: Show Your Colors

Your record, your look, your rivals. This is the patch where you show them all. This is the patch about you. Every player gets a public profile now, a trophy case

🐝 The Hive Never Sleeps... Apparently Neither Do I.

Hello frenz... Guess I can't help myself. I told myself I was going to slow down and work on other things. I really did. But here I am again... stuck to this project

Patch 0.9.0: Guild Wars

Your guild marches as one, and every rival is a fight you can win or lose on your own board. This is the guild patch. Guild Brawls grow into a real weekly campaign:

Open Source, Hive, and the Art of Buying Bread

I've been working on something very unique for Snapie, something that I suspect has not been tried before on Hive. I say "suspect" because if someone did,

Guilds and Brawls, Without the Spreadsheets

The best part of a card game like this is your guild. The worst part is running it. For years those were the same sentence. Assigning people to brawl slots in a

The War Between Simplicity and Features

I’m in a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand, there are a lot of things I want to add to Snapie Mobile—lots of features I’m excited about, lots of code I’ve already

Why Stellarch Runs Bots, and Bans Yours

We're building a card game where bots draft and fight at a high level. We will never knowingly let you run one. That sounds like a contradiction. It isn't. Both

The Case for an AI Intern at ThreeSpeak

I've been thinking about something kind of wild. Or should I say, wild for me. I've been thinking about dipping my toes into this whole AI agent thing. But before

The Fun Deficit

This might sound like I'm swinging fists, but that's not my intention. I'm really asking questions of myself, of the community, and posing the possibility that we

Mantequilla Report #18

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Ideas, Ideas and Ideas

It almost seems like every day I have a conversation with someone about my online activities and what I should be building next. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy these