Founder log

Daniel Samer

Founder and solo builder of Stellarch

Stellarch has never taken outside money. Every card, every mechanic, every line of the combat engine was designed, built, and funded by one person. The goal was simple: ship a TCG that is completely deterministic, replayable, and backed by Hive, so players truly own their collections. That game now exists, in open alpha, at the point where it is ready to open to the world.

What I write about

I write the announcements, changelog patch notes, giveaways, community spotlights, and technical deep dives that come out of building Stellarch solo. Expect real numbers, not hype, and a running record of what changed and why.

Latest posts

Changelog

Patch 0.39.0: Ascension

This patch is about the roster and where you get it. Twenty-five Fighters who had outgrown their old rarity are promoted, renamed, and rebuilt around the power their kits always implied: eighteen climb to Legendary and seven step up to Epic. The Fighter catalog also splits into a pack pool and a...

2026-08-18 3 min

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Patch 0.38.0: The Trainer Levels Up

Right now you beat our ranked practice AI about four times out of five, and that is not the fight we want it to be. This patch is the groundwork for changing it: a ground-up overhaul of how the AI Trainer drafts its team, reads the board, and scales its difficulty to your rank. It turns on in...

2026-08-18 2 min

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Patch 0.37.0: The Long Game

This patch rebuilds the achievements economy from the ground up. Rewards now lean toward the achievements you earn by actually playing, the progression curve and rank bands were re-cut so climbing feels steadier, and your earned progress was rescored to match. Tournaments get sharper too, with...

2026-08-18 3 min

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Patch 0.36.0: The Arena Ledger

This patch rebuilds the individual tournament page into a single Arena Ledger: the bracket, your own matches, the rewards, and the full event log all live on one board under six tabs. Earth gets an identity pass that hardens its walls so they actually outlast the opening strike, plus a cheap...

2026-08-17 5 min

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Patch 0.35.3: The Event Ledger

This one is a tournaments patch. The whole tournaments page gets rebuilt into a single Event Ledger: every event on one board, with your own matches pinned to the top so you always know what is waiting on you.

2026-08-17 1 min

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Patch 0.35.2: Tournament Command

Patch 0.35.2 is a tournaments patch. Your own games get a dedicated Matches tab, the group stage can now preview the knockout bracket, the Rewards tab is one clean prizes surface, and standings got a real glow-up. On the combat side, targeting is now explained the same way everywhere, so you...

2026-08-16 5 min

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Patch 0.35.1: One Shared Picker

Patch 0.35.1 is a polish drop. The headline: every team-draft screen in the game, ranked, the Battle Lab, guild brawls, and the tutorial, now runs on one shared picker, so building a squad feels identical everywhere. On top of that, a batch of fixes lands across tournaments, the WARPATH battle...

2026-08-16 3 min

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Patch 0.35.0: Void Salvage

Patch 0.35 is all about opening things up. The headline is Void Chests, a new daily reward you fill just by playing and then crack open in a full Salvage Scanner ceremony. The tournament pages got a ground up redesign into clean, scannable lists with a rebuilt bracket view, a wave of combat...

2026-08-16 5 min

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Patch 0.34.0: Guild Brawls

Guild Brawls are here. Join a guild, claim your frays in the weekly cycle, and fight every rival guild's pilots head to head for crowns and merit. This patch launches the whole competitive layer, sharpens the ranked leaderboard so you can see your qualification at a glance, and runs an accuracy...

2026-08-14 2 min

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Patch 0.32.2: Steady Hands

This one tightens the bolts. Your tournament winnings now always wait for you on the Claim page, your notifications finally speak the language you play in, and the activation gate keeps getting friendlier on the way in. We also gave the Defiance Protocol ruleset back its real Rebirth and smoothed...

2026-08-13 3 min

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Patch 0.33.0: The Season Crown

Ranked seasons now end with a fight. The moment a season closes, the top pilots in each active league family are drafted straight into a knockout tournament, and the last one standing takes the crown, an exclusive Fighter, and the season's prize pool. This patch is all about that finale.

2026-08-13 2 min

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Patch 0.32.1: A Smoother Way In

This one is small and focused, and it is all about getting into the alpha without friction. We fixed a flow that could bounce you out of activation right after you connected an account, let a Google sign-in cover the email step, and added a live handle check when you create a Hive account on the...

2026-08-13 2 min