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 0.22.1: Read The Rules Again

This one is all fixes, and most of them come straight out of your reports. The headline is combat: Corrode was quietly doing nothing against a team running Bulwark, and a Fighter's speed could be driven all the way to zero, so both are now resolved the way the ability text always read. Around...

2026-07-26 4 min

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Patch 0.22.0: Pay With Hive

You can now buy KRED with HIVE straight from your wallet: one-click Hive Keychain, or copy the memo, or scan the QR from your phone. Around that headline sits the biggest fix pass we have shipped in one patch, thirty one of them, concentrated where you actually felt them: the queue, the team...

2026-07-26 13 min

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Patch 0.21.0: Hands on the Console

This patch is about the surfaces you touch between fights. The sound page is now a proper deck with a master dial, the /play leaderboard modal got a real ladder layout, and the replay transport finally stopped showing you two buttons for one job. Alongside that, a long list of things that quietly...

2026-07-25 8 min

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Patch 0.20.2: One Email, One Account

Last patch put self-serve Hive accounts on the login screen. This one makes that flow trustworthy: the email your account gets bound to is locked and shown back to you, one address means exactly one account, and a request that starts can no longer strand itself halfway. Small patch otherwise,...

2026-07-24 2 min

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Patch 0.20.1: The Ladder Turns

The closed alpha ladder now rotates on a weekly cadence, stepping the open league tier up as the alpha runs. Signing up no longer requires a Hive account of your own: ask for one from the login screen and we create it for you. The rest of the patch is combat and replay accuracy, plus a large...

2026-07-24 4 min

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Patch 0.20.0: The Gauntlet Opens

This is the closed alpha's launch patch. The headline is Achievements: a full catalog to chase, an unlock ceremony when you earn one, a Gauntlet tab on your profile, and account levels with rank bands to show for it. Alongside it, you can now claim the earnings you built up during the alpha, send...

2026-07-24 5 min

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Patch 0.19.1: The Lab Bench

This one is about the Battle Lab. When you re-run a match to theory-craft a new team, you now get the exact ranked draft picker instead of a stripped-down copy, so every filter, sort, and card you already know is right there. A couple of Lab bugs got swept up on the way, and the Back the Charter...

2026-07-23 3 min

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Patch 0.19.0: The Hangar Refit

This patch refits the parts of Stellarch you touch every day. The collection page is rebuilt around a fast row view with a Workbench for bulk actions, you can now challenge anyone to a custom battle, Settings becomes the Hangar Bay, and the sound engine grows a proper per-channel mixer. A round...

2026-07-23 5 min

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Patch 0.18.2: The Archive Reads Straight

This one is a repair patch aimed squarely at the docs. Reading a reference page now scrolls like a normal page instead of three boxes fighting each other, the contents list tracks where you actually are, tapping an entry on your phone jumps you there, and the cookie card stopped parking on top of...

2026-07-21 4 min

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Patch 0.18.1: The Bracket Opens

Tournaments arrive: staged brackets you register for, a daily window to submit your team, and a prize pool at the end. WARPATH gets a pass over its economy and its chrome, with points that actually move, a road that keeps paying past level 50, and a daily wheel worth spinning. The rest of the...

2026-07-20 10 min

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Patch 0.18.0: The Gold Road Opens

The WARPATH GOLD ROAD arrives with the new ranked season on August 1: a fifty-level season pass with a reward on every step. Around it, support tickets move into your chat dock, the cosmetics picker returns rebuilt as the Signal Deck, the Genesis Cache starts dropping, and Stellarch gets its...

2026-07-18 4 min

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Patch 0.17.5: Titles, Your Way

Your worn title is no longer just text. Pick a color, layer on an effect like a soft glow, a gradient, a neon edge, or a foil shimmer, and it follows your name everywhere. The landing showcase got its own glow-up too, with eight distinct champions and a cleaner matchup frame.

2026-07-15 2 min