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 0.13.0: Center Stage

This patch rebuilds the two screens you spend the most time in. Drafting your team is now the full-viewport Theater Stage, and the end of every battle is a cinematic curtain call, with the wallet, shop, and claim screens getting the same premium pass. Underneath it all, a full-wheel affinity...

2026-07-03 8 min

Changelog

Patch 0.12.1: The Countdown

A small one. A live countdown to closed alpha now rides at the top of every page, and hovering a card on the landing now shows exactly what each of its abilities does.

2026-07-01 1 min

Changelog

Patch 0.12.0: House Rules

Here is the short version. Before anyone takes the field, everyone now signs on to the same fair-play rules. The wallet got a real cleanup with its actions split into their own tabs, your equipped cosmetics finally show their name and rarity at a glance, and a new or quiet wallet no longer leaves...

2026-07-01 3 min

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

This one is all about the moments around your matches. Every battle now opens on a cinematic split-screen VS showdown, guilds get a full Brawls hub to fight through, and the new Battle Lab lets you replay a finished match with a fresh team to see what would have happened. Add a redesigned Grand...

2026-07-01 9 min

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Patch 0.11.3: Make Your Mark

Here is the short version. Your cosmetics become collectible items with their own card pages, guild emblems gain rarity tiers you unlock through your Citadel, and there is fresh gear to claim: 50 avatars, 51 banners, and 100 more emblems. On top of that, the pre-battle showdown, mobile...

2026-06-29 7 min

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Patch 0.11.0: Face to Face

This patch is about the moment before the dice fall. Every match now opens on a cinematic stare-down: two worlds split across a glowing gold seam, your commander facing theirs, the league and the rules laid out before the first blow lands. It is the loudest the start of a battle has ever been.

2026-06-28 6 min

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Patch 0.10.0: Show Your Colors

This is the patch about you. Every player gets a public profile now, a trophy case to show off your record and a scouting report to size up anyone you queue into. Alongside it comes a wardrobe of cosmetic avatars, banners, and titles to make your account yours, and they follow you across the...

2026-06-26 8 min

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Patch 0.8.1: Sharper Symbols

A small one. Patch 0.8.0 redrew every in-combat ability icon in the bolder flat-shonen style, and this quick follow-up makes sure the fresh art actually shows up everywhere it should, on the card medallions and the ability reference pages alike. If a few icons were still rendering in their old...

2026-06-25 1 min

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Patch 0.9.0: Guild Wars

This is the guild patch. Guild Brawls grow into a real weekly campaign: your guild lines up across a ladder of frays, players claim their own seat in the fight, and each rival guild you face in a fray is its own separate match with its own replay. Your guild now decides whether it brawls at all...

2026-06-25 7 min

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Patch 0.8.0: The Dead Rise

Every collection has its ghosts: the cards you draft once, lose with, and never run again. Patch 0.8.0 is for them. We pulled the twenty-one most stubbornly underwater cards in the catalog, the ones sitting at a flat 20 to 32 percent win rate across every league, and gave each one a single,...

2026-06-24 3 min

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Patch 0.7.1: Clearer Upgrades, Cleaner Vault

A follow-up pass on the guild hall, all about spending with confidence. Upgrading a building used to mean paying for a number you could not read, so this patch makes every upgrade explain itself: the confirm screen now spells out what the next level actually does for your guild, and the activity...

2026-06-24 2 min

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Patch 0.7.0: The Guild Hall, Rebuilt

Your guild needed a real home, not a wall of stacked panels. This patch rebuilds the guild hub from the ground up into a proper hall. The tabs are real places you can link to and share, the guild list got a sharper card with your brawl record front and center, and every upgrade tells you exactly...

2026-06-24 4 min