Hamster Kombat: GameDev Heroes

Clan levels — how it works now 🛠️

There was a bug after clan level 13 (all 13 settings unlocked): fun % was calculated wrong. That’s fixed. Current rules:

🎮 Unlocking settings A new clan starts with 2 settings. At level N you can have N+1 settings, up to 13. After that, no more settings.

📈 Rating Clan rating = total fun on your clan’s settings. Only releases in your settings count.

✨ Bonuses • Clan-wide: +1% fun per clan level — this keeps going after 13
• Per setting: +5% fun per 100T on that setting, cap 65%
After all 13 settings are open, setting bonuses stop growing. New levels give only the clan-wide +1%.

📊 How you level up Until 13 settings: each bar caps at 100T × level. Fill every bar, then the leader picks a new setting.
After 13 settings: no new picks. Level up when all 13 bars are full.

🧱 Caps after level 13 Bars keep growing: 14 → +200T, 15 → +300T, 16 → +400T, and so on (per setting).

Sorry for the mix-up after 13 — percentages should now match this. 💛

🔥 BATTLE OF ISTANBUL STARTS THIS SUNDAY 🔥
Clans, the Bosphorus is calling. 80 districts. One city. Zero mercy. 🐹⚔️🇹🇷

📅 This Sunday, 13:00 UTC → next Sunday, 13:00 UTC
(Sep 20 → Sep 27)

🗺️ Capture districts, hold the map, stack points. Release games, fight for every street, and don’t let another clan steal your skyline.

⏸️ NEW: scheduled ceasefires
During a break, capture and holding scores freeze. The map stays open — you can look, you cannot grind.

🧊 Pause 1: Tue, Sep 22, 13:00 UTC → Wed, Sep 23, 13:00 UTC
🧊 Pause 2: Fri, Sep 25, 13:00 UTC → Sat, Sep 26, 13:00 UTC

When the pause ends, the war continues from the same scores. No lost progress. No free points either. 😈

🎬 Dramatic lighting. Impossible alliances. A twist at 13:00. Yes, it feels like a Turkish series. Because it is that kind of war.

👑 Only clans created before the event starts earn hold points and rewards. Join a clan before Sunday, pick a district, and write your episode.

See you this Sunday.
Capture Istanbul — or watch it from the credits. 🌅🏆

🏆 Personal Hall of Fame: mini-game streaks just got fairer

We updated 1st-place streaks in Audience and Find a Pair.

How it works now:

• 3 / 5 / 10 wins in a row on the mini-game event leaderboard
• skipped the event — your streak stays
• played and missed 1st — the streak breaks

🔥 New: hit 5 wins in a row and that five is yours for good.
From there you’re chasing 10. Miss top 1? You don’t drop to zero — the next run starts from 5.

🐹 Hall of Fame just got personal — and you can finally peek into other CEOs’ offices

Two updates are live. Time to show off 👀

🏆 Personal Hall of Fame

Open Profile → Hall of Fame → Personal. These are your one-time achievements — not the global first-place board.

📺 Audience — finish 1st on the Audience event leaderboard 3 / 5 / 10 times in a row. Skip an event and the streak resets.

💞 Pairs — same deal for the Pairs mini-game event LB (not Find a Pair).

📣 Ads — hit 100 / 500 / 1000 lifetime ad views → gold.

👑 Daily rating — end a day as #1 on the fun leaderboard. Once per lifetime, counted at the end of the day.

Tap a card to read the condition. When it’s ready, tap again to claim. Streaks and daily #1 unlock extra office slots (you still buy the desk). Ads pay gold.

👥 Visit other players’ teams

Open another CEO’s office, check their hamsters, and give them a little boost: +5 energy. You can do this up to 20 times per day.

Spy on the meta. Help a friend. Flex your Personal Hall of Fame. Let’s go 🚀

🎤 September 3rd hits different in Hamster Gamedev.

Meet Shufi — a hamster in a black suit, aviators, and a beard that means business. One mic. One pose. Zero chill.

He doesn’t just join the studio.
He turns your game strategy upside down.

📈 +7% Fun
💰 +2% Profit

Collect the pieces, unlock the skin, and let the encore begin.

The 3rd of September will never be the same 🐹

WOAH WOAH WOAH 🐹💥

Time to find out which setting is actually the strongest 👀🔥

Pick your favorite. Fight for it. Prove it in Settings Battle. ⚔️🎮

No more “trust me bro” takes. We’re settling this in the studio. 🏆

📋 How it works: 🏆 4 rounds — one bracket, four fights, one champion 🃏 Wildcards — some settings skip the first round and jump in later. Lucky? Maybe. Still gotta win 😏 🚪 You can join in any round 🔒 But once you pick a setting — you’re locked in. No switching. No leaving. No “wait I changed my mind” 😤

Choose carefully. Then ship like your setting’s life depends on it. 💻🚀

🎁 Winners get: ☕ Brand-new coffee — drink it, ship faster, skip the crash ☕⚡ ⚡ Temporary setting bonus — the winning setting hits even harder for a while 💪✨

This is not a debate. This is war. 🔥

Pick a setting. Rally your team. Let’s see who’s actually cracked. 🐹👑

GO. NOW. 🚀🔥☕

🏴 Conquering Paris — patch notes

🗓 Aug 22–27, 13:00 UTC (16:00 MSK)

• New map: Paris, 80 quartiers
• 0 zones → ×110% Fun from releases
• −2% Fun per held zone, floor ×50%
• Defender start from 500B: 1 zone ×110%, then −2% per extra zone, floor ×50%
• Clan bonuses don’t count in capture games

🎁 When a zone changes owner:
• Top contributor: 2 Espresso + 25 Fun Boost
• Last hit: 30 Gamepads + 1 Cappuccino
• Defense = no gift

🏆 Place prize is still split by clan size, but one player gets at most 1/100 of that place’s prize.

Good luck in Paris 🥐

🏴 Conquering Paris is live

The next territory capture takes place in Paris — 80 quartiers on the map.

🗓 August 22, 13:00 UTC → August 27, 13:00 UTC
(16:00 MSK → 16:00 MSK)

⚔️ How to capture

• Pick exactly one zone to attack
• Several clans can fight for the same zone at the same time
• To take a zone you need at least 1T Fun and a 1T lead over the closest rival
• Clan bonuses do not count in capture games

⚖️ Balance update

The more zones your clan already holds, the harder it is to snowball:

• 0 zones → ×110% Fun from releases
• Each held zone: −2% Fun
• Floor: ×50%

Defender head start at the start of a round (from 500B):

• 1 zone → ×110%
• Each extra zone: −2%
• Floor: ×50%

🎁 Personal rewards for capturing a zone

Awarded when a zone changes owner:

• Top contributor of the winning clan: 2 Espresso + 25 Fun Boost
• Last hit: 30 Gamepads + 1 Cappuccino

Holding a zone against an attack does not grant these gifts.

🏆 Clan place rewards

After the event, the prize for your clan’s place is split among members.

To stop tiny clans from farming the full pot:

one player can receive at most 1/100 of the prize for that place.

Example: a 1-player clan still gets only 1% of 1st place — not the whole prize.
Clans with 100+ members are split as usual (prize / member count).

✅ Who can earn hold points and claim

• Clan must be created before the event starts
• Player must have joined the clan before the event starts
• Clans with fewer than 50 eligible members need at least 100T rating, and more than half of members must have joined before the start
• Clans with 50+ such members skip that extra check

Open the clan map, choose a quartier, and good luck in Paris 🥐

☕ Coffee Point drops today
Your hamsters need caffeine. Starting today, open CEO Room → Coffee Point, brew a capsule, and give the studio a timed Fun boos…
Pick your drink:

🥛 Cappuccino — +15% Fun for 2 hours

☕ Americano — +20% Fun for 1 hour

⚡ Espresso — +30% Fun for 30 minutes

One cup at a time — while a boost is active, you can’t brew another. Capsules live in your inventory; brew them at Coffee Point.

While the boost is running, you’ll see it on the Project screen: remaining time and Fun %. Tap it to jump back to the coffee machine.

Brew. Ship. Repeat. 🐹

🎧 Support Update

Support is now available only via our bot:

👉 https://t.me/gamedev_support_bot

⚠️ The old support link is no longer available.

Please contact us through the bot for any help 💬
We’re happy to assist! ✨

👑 Clan Update

Leadership can now be transferred!

✨ What’s new:

🔄 Transfer Leadership
The leader can pass the clan to an Executive (E). After that, the former leader becomes an Executive.

🚪 Leader Leaves
If the leader leaves and there are Executives in the clan, leadership automatically goes to the Executive with the highest rating. The clan is no longer deleted.

⚠️ If there are no Executives, the clan is still deleted when the leader leaves.

Manage your clan with more control 💪

⚔️ Debug Duel — Update

🛡 Setup before the fight
At the start of the match, each player places 3 antivirus shields on their board (one player first, then the other). Stack them on one cell or spread them out. After that — the main game: patch and bug only.

🚪 Less leave/rejoin trolling

The in-match Menu button is a surrender (with confirmation). Your opponent wins.
On disconnect — 60 seconds to come back.
You can disconnect at most twice per match; a 3rd time is an instant loss.
The “opponent offline” status doesn’t flash instantly — it shows after a few seconds.
Good luck in the duels 💻🔥

📬 New feature: Clan Messages!

Snowballs are out — real talk is in ❄️➡️💬

You can now message your clanmates directly from the clan list.

🖥️ Open your CEO Office → Messages to check your inbox, reply, and keep the conversation going.

Perfect for: 🤝 coordinating releases
🔥 hype before the next event
👀 calling out that one AFK co-founder

Jump in, say hi to your clan, and make the office a little less lonely 😎

🔥 São Paulo Update is live!

🕵️ Our scouts went deep into the favelas of São Paulo… and hit the jackpot.

🎮 3 new genres discovered: ⚔️ MOBA 🎲 Roguelike 💎 Gacha

Time to cook something fresh, CEOs. The streets of São Paulo just got a lot more competitive.

🗺️ Territory Capture — rules & mechanics update

📌 Clan bonuses do NOT apply in Territory Capture. Pure fight. Pure skill.

👀 New clan filter on the map — pick a clan and instantly see which zones they hold.

👑 Not only the Clan Leader anymore: 🧑‍💻 Executives can now mark attack / defense targets too.

🏷️ And yes — when a target is set, clanmates will see who marked it. No more mystery pings.

🇧🇷 São Paulo is heating up. Grab your clans, pick your zones… and don’t get left in the grey districts. 💥

🐛 Debug Duel drops today ⚔️

Two studios. One release. Only one walks away with the loot. 🏆

📦 How it works

Stake 1 lootbox 🎁 to queue. Deducted only when an opponent is found and the match starts. Leave early — stake stays with you ✅
Win → take 2 lootboxes 💰
Up to 20 games per day 📅
🎮 The fight Race to ship across 9 modules. Each turn = 2 actions:

🟢 Patch — heal your module (+20%)
🔴 Bug — hit the opponent (−20%)
🛡️ Antivirus — stack shields; bugs burn layers, not HP
Break 2 modules → collapse, instant win 💥
Survive to the end → higher Release wins 📊

Exact % for you, zones only for them. Fog of war until the finale 🌫️

⏱️ Don’t AFK 60 seconds per turn. Disconnect or stall — you lose the stake ❌

Open CEO Room → Debug Duel and queue up 🚀

​🔥 Battle of New York is LIVE — the real tournament starts today! 🔥

😎 Clans, the test is over. Territory Capture enters the official phase with the holding leaderboard and real prizes on the line.

🗺 Battle for New York is on. Fight for NYC districts, capture them, hold them, and climb the clan ranking.

✍️ Capture (unchanged from test):
• Multiple clans can attack the same district
• Neutral district: capture at 1T Fun
• Contested district: win with 1T Fun + 1T lead over the nearest rival
• After a winner is decided, that round ends; a new round starts only on a new attack
• Defending owner starts the next round with a 0.5T Fun head start
• One selected district per player — Fun from releases counts only there, and only while capture is active

🏆 NEW — Holding leaderboard (this phase):
• Every district your clan owns earns holding points
• 100 pts/hour per district
• +50 pts/hour for every full day you keep it
• More districts + longer holds = higher rank
• Top clans win gamepads, resume points & gold (places 1–200)
• Prizes are shared with all clan members — everyone in the clan gets their tier’s rewards, not just the leader

📍 Where to play: Clan → Territory Capture → Battle for New York
Check the map, timer, top clans, My Rank, and prize tiers in-game.

Coordinate. Pick targets. Hold what you take.
See you on the map. 🗺🔥

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