Welcome to the final tournament of the year, which starts in 2024 and ends in 2025! 27/12/2024 (12:00 GMT) 04/01/2025 (12:00 GMT)

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Dear community: Today, we have 2 news to share: Firstly, were happy to report that we have started a collaboration withHeyBox, the largest PC and console games community in China. This partnership allows many more China-based players to find the help and the advice they need about Gremlins, Inc. directly on the HeyBox platform, in their own language. It is no exaggeration to say that this is all due to you, the players, who continue to play the game, and invite their friends to join the community. Gremlins, Inc. has been around for a very long time next year, we'll celebrate a decade since the game released in Early Access! and still, the game continues to be enjoyed by many players who love intellectually challenging board games. Secondly, to celebrate this cooperation, we will be holding a collaborative Charlie Oscar x HeyBoxTournament Double 11", with a set of luxurious, rare items in the prize fund: enamel pins, and t-shirts.

The tournament starts on November 8, with the following rules:

TOURNAMENT DOUBLE 11

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Dear, Gremlins. Thank you all for your gracious offer to be our test subjects in this tournament. This experiment is very simple. The idea is to prepare sessions in a format that swaps the number of players between the EU and Asia servers. In other words, the format is 2 players for EU server and 4 players for Asia server. This is literally an experiment, so it may not work very well...... But, well, if it fails, only for 96 hours, so please be patient. 30/08/2024 (12:00 GMT) 03/09/2024 (12:00 GMT) 96 hours

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Dear community: We appreciate the great response to recent STEAM Summer Sale. With that, access to the Asian server exceeded our expectations, and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused players. In order to cope with the increased access, we will upgrade the Asian server. Due to this, access to the Asia server will be unavailable for a few hours starting Friday, July, 19, 10:30 GMT (the schedule says). Until the situation improves, we ask for the cooperation and understanding of our players, especially those in China, Korea, and Japan, who may be inconvenienced. [Team CO]

SUMMER TOURNAMENT!!

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Dear, Gremlins. I know you are all busy working at the Plant, have A Day at the Office, or are doing something you don't want others to find out about. For all of you, yes, we have prepared the tournament as usual. Everyone, please play (or work?) this tournament to the best of your ability.

WORKERS' TOURNAMENT!!

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Dear, Gremlins. Celebrating the 8th anniversary of the release of Gremlins, Inc. We would like to thank all of our players for enjoying this game for such a long time.

8TH ANNIVERSARY TOURNAMENT!!

EUROPE

Dear friends, A Happy Lunar New Year!

LUNAR NEW YEAR TOURNAMENT

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Welcome to the final tournament of the year, which starts in 2023 and ends in 2024! 29/12/2023 (12:00 GMT) 04/01/2024 (12:00 GMT)

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Hello peoples, It's been a long time since we shared a development update in this community, and today being a properly foggy and moody morning, I thought I'd just write a short note; send a signal into space, so to speak (talking about signals, I've been watching Apollo 11 this weekend; in all the scenes, someone is smoking in the room this is how you truly know it's the footage form the '60s...). Anyways, what would I like to know, ifI were a player of Gremlins, Inc.? [olist]

Tell me something funny/interesting related to the game. [/olist] Let's start:

Is the development team still alive?

Yes! Unbelievably, huh? We are now seven people plus some extras freelancing for us, and from the folks who worked on the original Gremlins, Inc., we have 3 people still on the team (including myself). Geographically, we have 1 person working from Spain, 1 from Japan, 2 from Russia and the rest from Lithuania. Which makes for some interesting time zone coordination when we need to talk to each other. 100% of our focus aside from supporting the community of Gremlins, Inc. (thanks, Standard of Ur!) is currently on our new game, which we develop for about a year / a year and a half now. summer_magic History time: In 2013-2018 we focused on Gremlins, Inc. In 2018-2019 we focused on releasing Spire of Sorcery into Early Access In 2020-2021 we focused on fixing the damn thing (changing genres, all the works) In 2022-2023 we focus on a new game (unannounced, I just created a Steam page today...) Good news: for the new game, we collaborate with a bright game designer who shipped one, two, three, four games, that sold several million copies (he's both smart and rich), with two more in production at his studio at the moment. And this new game of ours has a mechanics that revolve around evolving tokens, combos, bi-directional battle matrix, and many other things that make us happy... So there's a pretty high chance that if you enjoy Gremlins, Inc., then you will dig the new project as well. When we are ready some time in 2024, we will start by releasing the playable demo, so that you can see for yourself, if it's up your alley (it also has a story that is somewhat relevant to real life: corruption, discrimination, racism, we have it all; including a female protagonist).

Do you plan to add any new cards or features?

Surprisingly, yes, we do. I mean, it's a game from 2015, so maybe it's already good enough, right? telegram What we have is a new card (or two), and a few balancing tweaks, that have been on the back burner for months and months. We now have agreed that once we're done with the demo of our new project, we'll take a week or two to spend on finalising that content, and releasing it here. Probably, that's Q1 2024. Don't hate us for slow-walking the thing, we are currently like a team of deep divers, submerged down below for almost two years, with Standard of Ur calling us from the surface with the updates on how things are going in the real world).

What's up with Gremlins, Inc. 2 ("Gremlins Unlimited")?

We saw strong interest from players (you guys rock!), but we couldn't raise the development budget from publishers or investors because the game was "too big and too small at the same time". We may get around to taking the series further once we ship the new game and if it's successful enough, to provide the extra money that we can throw on this concept. Nobody wants to do a version 2.0 that will have only marginal improvements. We discussed some out of the box ideas that can take the game to the next level (with cards that you can construct, etc.), and if we will do G2, then we will do it like that. But for the moment, it's not happening, not in 2024 for sure.

Some trivia

Good news: A.Fruit, the composer who wrote all the music for Gremlins, Inc., continues to collaborate with us, and already wrote over 12 tracks for our new game. From that side alone, it's a feast for ears! The music changes as you progress through the game... different adventures have their own themes... and we even got around to creating "the theme of the lead character", "the theme of her best friend", etc., which is the level that we haven't tried before. Lessons learned: the biggest lesson that we took home following our "death march" of 2020-2021, is that we have to stop trying to be "the indie team that works like a big corporation". All of our developer friends are pretty crappy at posting updates, or responding to bug reports on the forums. It is a given, when you're small, that you simply don't have the time to act like a SEGA subsidiary. The sabbatical from the social media that I took in 2022 taught me that most of the time spent on posting regular news in 6 languages and responding to comments on Discord, was mostly time spent inefficiently. Because, ultimately, if the game is doing well, then you can post just in English, whenever you have news, and it's good enough. Whereas if the game's in trouble, no amount of localisation will save your ass. Finally: Gremlins, Inc. is still performing well enough to pay for its servers in Asia and in Europe, and to support the community and live ops. For which I'm very thankful. It's lovely to see that we have new players coming in every month, and having a good experience with the project. No game is ideal, and very few games can afford to keep re-inventing themselves (ours definitely wasn't built for that, we were like the blind people painting a picture in a dark room, in terms of architecture). But to see that we still have thousand+ sessions a day in Gremlins, Inc. in 2023, is a big motivation for our team to try our bestest to deliver a new game for you all, which would surprise you, and make you happy with its multiple challenges along the dramatic story. I cannot wait to share more on that project at some point between now and the release of the demo, we'll start posting dev diaries, and so on. As for now, I'm wishing you all a nice day, and here's a high five to everyone who sent a kind word or two my way over the last year. We're not yet back to regular communication, but we're getting ready to share more. See you around! /sergei
(yes, this is form our new game =)

[ 2023-11-13 09:27:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Welcome to the Halloween Tournament!! The Halloween Tournament is full of tricks!!

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TOURNAMENT!!

EUROPE

SUMMER TOURNAMENT!!

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Dear, Gremlins. It is with great pleasure that we celebrate Gremlins, Inc.'s 7th anniversary with the support of our dedicated players. All of your players' feedback and support has always been a beacon of hope to light our way forward.

7TH ANNIVERSARY TOURNAMENT!!

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1x contraband box of goods[/olist] Additionally: Every player with 6 victories in a row (EUROPE) or 12 victories in a row (ASIA):

• 1x illegal box of goods

Bounty hunter's award: The first player to win against the player with the best tournament points.

• 1x contraband box of goods

about the next update planned

The next update will mainly do the following:

• Two new cards
• Balancing of several characters, including the politician
• Balancing of several cards, including Expensive Order

Art designs for the two new cards have already been completed. In this time, we publish them in advance. The first card
One Gremlin is being crushed by a giant hand, while the other Gremlin looks down with a scowl. The second card
This intelligent atmosphere of Gremlin seems to explain something with multiple graphs. Can't you wait to see what kind of cards they will be? We hope you will use your imagination to guess. Well, good luck in the tournament, everyone. [Team CO]

[ 2023-03-07 12:15:38 CET ] [ Original post ]

Dear friends, A little late, but A Happy Lunar New Year! This time the tournament is a little different from the usual. Each player has a limited number of lives. in this tournament. The number of lives you have is different on each server. With every loss, you lose 1 such life. You will get tournament points as long as you have at least 1 life. After losing all the lives, you can continue to play (to kick out competing players), but you will not get any more tournament points for your own victories. Please, everyone, have fun.

LUNAR NEW YEAR TOURNAMENT

EUROPE

Welcome to the final tournament of the year, which starts in 2022 and ends in 2023! 29/12/2022 (12:00 GMT) 04/01/2023 (12:00 GMT)

EUROPE

Welcome to the Halloween Tournament! The tournament runs from October 28 12:00 GMT throughNovember 01 12:00 GMT. While gremlins are immortal, and not really scared of any ghosts, they are still afraid of some things: debt collectors, and automatons that are out of control. For this tournament, we suggest the following rules:

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Hey guys, How are you all doing?
This year is not the easiest for a lot of people. In this community, we have players from over a hundred countries, and Im sure that for each region, the problems are different. One thing is clear, though: whether its the climate crisis, the pandemics, the war, the energy crisis, or some other issue 2022 is a challenging year for nearly everyone. We wish our community to focus on what each of us, personally, can do to improve the lives of others while not losing our minds on the matters which remain beyond our control. And with the same approach, today we release a small update for Gremlins, Inc.: nothing life-changing, just something to make your experience a bit better. Feel free to start the game and check it out! Whatever happened in 2022, our servers are still up and running, and Gremlins, Inc. is waiting for you.

NEW CARD: PRISON TOUR

NEW CARD: EXPENSIVE ORDER

CHARACTER CHANGES: THE THIEF

CHARACTER CHANGES: THE POLITICIAN

OTHER UPDATES

• The explanation for discarding cards in "Glasnost" has been supplemented.
• Fixed missing descriptions of some cards in Gremlinopedia.
• Fixed translations for some languages.

WHAT'S NEXT?

Dear, Gremlins. It has been a year since Qfasa passed away due to COVID-19. This infection that took his life still shows no signs of abating. Some of you and your family and friends may have been infected with COVID-19 and suffered terribly. It is so fun and wonderful to get out and share a great time with your precious friends. On the other hand, along with that, it is also very important to stay at home to avoid the risk of exposing yourself and your loved ones to dangerous infections. We have a little bonus this month for those of you who stay home and play Gremlins, Inc. in memory of Qfasa.

BONUS

• A Rare Box of Goods x 1
• Summer Chest x 3

Conditions for earning the bonus

• Play and complete at least 10 sessions during this July. Any type of session is acceptable. This bonus is awarded independently for each of the EU and ASIA servers, but at the same time, the Conditions for earning the bonus are also counted independently.

Dear friends, In February we decided to bring back the monthly updates of Gremlins, Inc. as there's always things we work on, and changes in balance that we'd like to try, and shipping regular updates is very helpful to deploy all of these things at once. Since we in parallel develop spellcasting Spire of Sorcery, the idea was to ship Spire of Sorcery's updates at the end of each month, and the updates for steampunk Gremlins, Inc. in the middle of each month. Well, so much for the domino effect: just last week we shipped such a massive update for Spire of Sorcery (our biggest yet, adding hours of gameplay) that we only now were able to re-group and update Gremlins, Inc.
This doesn't mean that we will abandon the "monthly update" ambition. We will keep trying! This is just to explain why certain things happen later than we would have wanted them to happen. weather On a similar topic, and before we cover the new cards, here's the update for Gremlins, Inc. 2: after discussing the project with nearly 20 possible partners, we are now down to 2 whom we like the most. The journey has been quite interesting, as we are looking not just to rise the production budget but to align our long-term vision for the game, and this is the most important part of the discussion. We will keep you posted on the decision when we make it! And now about today's update: the main focus of this update is the introduction of two new cards.

NEW CARD: GLASNOST

NEW CARD: FULL HOUSE

TECH FIXES

• The changes from the February update are now applied to the single-player mode; originally, they did not affect that mode, and we apologise for the inconvenience.
• The issues with season chests are now fixed; it took some time to identify the issue, and here the reports from players were very helpful;
• A few mistakes in various localisations got fixed; some of them were on the radar for months, but we forgot about them ;-P

FEEDBACK ON THIS UPDATE?

A BRIEF CONVERSATION WITH OUR FRIENDS IN KYIV

12 days ago, Russian army invaded Ukraine and every day since then is killing its people and destroying its infrastructure. Our friends in the Ukrainian games studios are now forced to defend their homeland, while their parents and children are fleeing the war as refugees. Some of you may know that Gremlins, Inc. was born during in 2013 and 2014 while we prototyped and experimented in Kyiv, Moscow and Stockholm. The streets that we walked while discussing the game are now being bombed by Russian artillery. The game designer who invented the game's concept is sheltering in Kyiv, with the air raid sirens sounding in the city. The artist who created all of the game's card art changed his pencil for a rifle, joining the territorial defence. This is the time of grief. So much pain and destruction is being inflicted. We are a small team, and we are doing what we can, helping the vulnerable friends as much as we can... while we watch Russia killing and maiming innocent people. Sadly, these thousands of dead are just the beginning of the humanitarian catastrophe as many more will die of disease or lack of medicine and care in the coming weeks. At the same time, those in our team who are based in Russia face another war: the war of the Russian police on Russia's own population. Call the war a war, ask for peace and get beaten up, arrested and tortured, facing up to 15 years in jail. The thugs paid by the state brutalise peaceful citizens to keep them silent. While our hearts break for the victims of the war, whether bombed or arrested, we will do our best to continue developing and operating our games. This is not the only conflict that is happening in the world right now, it's just that it affects us in a very direct and personal way. With all of our hearts, we wish this war to stop. We will do our best to support our friends who suffer from this war in Ukraine, as well as our friends in Russia who protest against this war. These are difficult times. Let's please be kind and helpful to each other, as much as we can.

Hey guys, It's been a long time since we've ran a team tournament. Buckle up, and get ready to watch some of the most skilled players compete!

Rules

Schedule

How to register

Dear friends, Many thanks for your feedback about the last series of changes. We are not the Governors of this town, who care about nothing but their own interests. We think of ourselves as engineers: we tweak, we try, we listen, and then we tweak some more. So your comments and suggestions are very much welcome! From this month, we're getting back to regular, monthly updates of the game. These updates will add new content as well as fix known issues, and introduce changes in the balance. Important to keep in mind: a lot of the bigger changes we move to Gremlins, Inc. 2, because with the updated architecture it will be much easier to make those already in the next version of the game.

REBALANCING

TWO NEW CARDS

NEW CARD: GLASNOST

NEW CARD: FULL HOUSE

OTHER UPDATES

• Fixed tournament points.
• Mulligan timer is extended (under Normal settings, 5 seconds are added).
• The deck for the Asia ranked sessions is now the same as the European deck.
• Additions and corrections were made in the Credits section (did you know we have one?).
• Fixed several bugs related to the display of the session log.
• Added "close" button to the banner promoting Spire of Sorcery, a new game that we currently develop. By the way, it was recently reviewed by SplatterCat, and the review has 200.000 views and a lot of positive comments already. We recommend that you do not click on this new button before making a purchase.
• Fixed a few bugs related to localization.

Dear friends, We wish you a happy Lunar New Year, and we hope that the coming year will bring you closer to attaining happiness wherever you are!
Today we have a few news items to share:

NEW BACKGROUND AND NEW MUSIC TRACK

CHANGES IN CARDS

WHICH NEW CARD WOULD YOU VOTE FOR?

LUNAR NEW YEAR TOURNAMENT

EUROPE

Welcome to the final tournament of the year, which starts in 2021 and ends in 2022! 28/12/2021 (12:00 GMT) 03/01/2022 (12:00 GMT)

EUROPE

Today Original Soundtrack of Gremlins, Inc. expands with one more music track. This is a music track from our new game, Spire of Sorcery, titled The Broodmother. In that game it plays during the encounter with the queen of mad weavers. The music for Spire of Sorcery is created by A.Fruit the same composer who created all the music for Gremlins, Inc. If you own Gremlins, Inc. OST, your album will be updated automatically. Enjoy the holiday season! https://store.steampowered.com/app/637050/Spire_of_Sorcery/

Dear friends: In October this year, Gremlins, Inc. celebrated 6 years since its release on Steam in Early Access. Nearly 500.000 players have joined the game since its launch, and over 10.000 players among them already spent more than 100 hours playing this game. More importantly, there is a warm community that grew around the project, where players from different countries share advice and come up with ideas on new mechanics. We love the strong data, but we love the sense of community even more. Thank you for being with us! Looking at 2022, and into the future, we have huge desire to take Gremlins, Inc. to another level. For more than a year now, we have been debating about the evolution of the game. Currently, there are a few features and content that we simply cannot add to the existing project due to the limitations of its architecture. So how do we change that, to continue the evolution of the game? We are now developing the concept of Gremlins, Inc. 2 a sequel to the existing game that will be purpose-built to deliver the most requested features:

• Peer to peer connection for custom multiplayer sessions
• Team sessions in ranked mode
• Cards that can be edited for mods
• Playing field that can be edited for mods
• Dynamic effects (e.g. play a card and change playing field)
• Versions for other platforms (e.g. Android, Switch) with cross-play

Gremlins who were looking forward to the tournament: thank you for your patience! The tournament runs from October 29 (12:00 GMT) to November 1 (12:00 GMT),

:steampunk: EUROPE

:steampunk: ASIA

• The Accelerator
• An Award Ceremony
• A Compromising Document
• A Fraudulent Transaction
• A Friendly Bailiff

TOURNAMENT RULES

PRIZES

If you haven't seen what team tournaments look like in Gremlins, Inc., stop by 4PM EEST! The stream will be pre-recorded. And for those looking to the new official tournament: it will begin October 29, details to be announced later in the day. Have a great weekend! // team CO

If you haven't seen what team tournaments look like in Gremlins, Inc., stop by 4PM EEST! The stream will be pre-recorded. And for those looking to the new official tournament: it will begin October 29, details to be announced later in the day. Have a great weekend! // team CO

What is Spire of Sorcery?

Who created Spire of Sorcery?

Why Early Access?

Whats great about Spire of Sorcery?

• Cast spells, including combos, to affect opponents and trigger environmental effects
• Concoct alchemic substances that range from curative to explosive
• Combine alchemy, spells and equipment to prevail in encounters
• Explore the original world of Rund to discover new resources and new recipes
• Taste any resource that you find, to modify the looks of your party
• Collect and grow food resources, and cook food that may taste great (or horrible)
• Manage your party, considering mood and traits of its members
• Find new party members and improve their stats up to their true potential
• Expand your base at the Spire with new rooms that offer new mechanics
• Break into ancient barrows, dispel cursed weepers and battle infection-ridden gigglers
• Resolve mini-stories that pose moral choices, affecting your partys mood

Whats in the current version?

How will the game be updated?

How long will the game remain in Early Access?

What if I own Gremlins, Inc.?

Thanks for the support!

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RULES

PRIZE FUND

steampunk STATUS: the update is in pre-release testing. We expect to release it on 21/06. sunnyemo IMPORTANT: due to significant internal changes in the code, saved games made in the earlier version of the game will not be compatible with the updated version. We apologize for the inconvenience. Dear players: Hopefully, the summer treats you with good weather, and you and your families are doing well. We, from our side, are happy to provide you with this brand new update that adds 2 new cards, a number of bug fixes and changes in balance. We'll look at all the changes in just a second, but first, a quick shoutout to our other game Spire of Sorcery, which participates in the Steam Next Fest event: the demo-version is already available on Steam, and supports 7 languages. If, for some unexplainable reason, you desire something less chaotic and brutal than Gremlins, Inc., then you may consider leading a party of runaway mages in a post-cataclysmic fantasy world of Spire of Sorcery. You can download the demo on the game's Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/637050/Spire_of_Sorcery/ And now, back to Gremlins, Inc. and all the goodness of the new update! cardscardscardscardscardscardscardscardscardscardscardscards

NEW CARD: "ID CARD OF SECRET POLICE"

NEW CARD: "QUICK LOAN"

CHANGES IN BALANCE

CHANGES IN SPECIAL CHARACTER ABILITIES

The Damned

The Pauper

CHANGES IN CARDS

CHAOS CARDS

A Sacrifice

The Agent of Chaos

The Army of Chaos

A Diversion in the Astral Plane

The Allies of Chaos

CARDS

Eternal Mortgage

Racketeering!

A Fence

Toxic Waste

Prize Fund

A Bag of Money

Corporate Scam

Investigation

An Inspection

Forbidden Knowledge

Cold Deck

FIXES

• Gremlinopedia now correctly shows all the monthly changes for cards and characters outside of sessions.
• The tooltip for the Banker's ability Hedging the risk now shows at the correct spot.
• Added missing indicators on the board for active permanent cards The Common Fund and Corporate Scam.
• Indicators in the first tutorial entry are fixed and appear next to the correct elements of UI.
• Raging bull emote now can be converted into charges.
• A few more typos in different languages has been discovered and fixed.

Dear friends, Today we have two news to share with you: First of all, the playable demo of Spire of Sorcery our upcoming party RPG with turn-based spellcasting and hex-based exploration is available during Steam Next Fest, from June 16 onwards.
Spire of Sorcery is a very ambitious project for our studio, and those among you who follow our studio might know that its development has been anything but easy: to make it happen, weve pushed ourselves to the very limit. Given the development progress of the last 6 months, were confident that the project will be released in Early Access in the autumn of this year! In Spire of Sorcery, you play for a party of runaway mages who try save themselves (and maybe others, if they can) in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world where magic talent is a crime.
Just as with Gremlins, Inc., with Spire of Sorcery we build upon the games own original setting, and we dont rely on a single central mechanic. Instead, we mixes together multiple interconnected mechanics to create a unique experience from their combinations. Spire of Sorcery has elements of gameplay that you might find in board games, even though its not a card game. Every character owns a personal adjustable deck of elements that they combine together to cast spells and deal tokens, that combine with different effects.
There is some randomness in the game the maps are procedurally generated, as well as stats and decks but we keep it rather low in comparison to that other game that you all know and love (or hate :P).
Of course, there are more things. For example, each character is a person with their own stats, perks, and goals. They can be improved, but they also can get sick or injured. They react differently to the surroundings and events. And since mages are the most efficient when they act in groups, it lies on the player's shoulder to decide how to mix different party members.
If this sounds interesting and you want to know more, or try the playable demo while its available, you can download the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/637050/Spire_of_Sorcery/ We would be tremendously happy to receive your feedback, comments and suggestions, as it is our main way to develop and improve our games. Secondly, the development of our second new game currently in production, Gremlins, Inc. Card Game, is progressing nicely. You may be familiar with the physical game thats available as Print & Play DLC for Gremlins, Inc., and now we are turning it into a digital board game as well. Since this is an adaptation of the existing game, the development is fast and smooth. We already have a fully playable version that we test against bots (they aren't the brightest, but they know how to play) or other players (on a dedicated server or through a direct peer-to-peer connection). The base deck of 64 cards is also fully implemented, and sessions can be played for points or rounds where both conditions can be set at the same time, in which case the session ends when at least one of them is reached. The main reason why we don't provide any public access to the build yet (and decided to opt-out from this Steam Next Fest with the demo) is that the game looks ugly as... well, lets just say that it's very, very ugly since we havent even started work on the interface yet.
While hardcore fans probably would be able to deal with it, we do not want to traumatise anyone else. Yes, it works! But no, its not ready to reveal itself to the general public yet. However, you can already add the game to your wishlist, if you wish https://store.steampowered.com/app/860560/Gremlins_Inc__Card_Game/ Our current estimate is that Gremlins, Inc. Card Game will enter Early Access on Steam in the autumn of this year. In the meantime, we'll be sharing news on how development progresses, and how the game changes (mostly it will be getting prettier and the bots become smarter). You can also join the game's dedicated Discord server.

SET OF RULES FOR JUNE, 2021

CARDS

Investigation

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steampunk EUROPE

• default bribe is increased by 10 (30 instead of 20, The Pauper pays 15 instead of 5);
• 2 more copies of The Miracle of Bureaucracy added to the deck;
• 2 more copies of A Governor for an Hour added to the deck;
• 2 more copies of The Right Connections added to the deck;
• Elections happen every 15 rounds instead of every 20;
• The winner of each election gets score2 instead of score1;

0 tournament points [/olist]

votes RULES:

Sessions that count towards the tournament: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (8) For each defeated opponent ("defeated" means that at the end of a session the player has a lower final position than yours), you receive additional tournament points. The number of points depends on the number of victories (1st places) of the defeated opponents in the current tournament. Important: these additional points also are added to your overall tournament score retrospectively, when the players previously defeated by you achieve victories in the tournament even if you already have reached the limit of sessions for the tournament. What this means is that you keep getting tournament points as long as your previously defeated opponents continue to play, and win. During this tournament, regular rating points will be frozen for all the players. Your tournament sessions will NOT affect your regular rating. Players get tournament points for the first 8 sessions played in the tournament on each of the servers. Any subsequent sessions won't give any tournament points, and won't increase the number of defeated opponents who give additional points. Nonetheless, victories of all opponents who were defeated in the first 8 sessions will affect your final tournament rating.

PRIZE FUND:

Awarded: Top 10 players on each of the servers. In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all 8 tournament sessions receives a special bonus player icon Facepalm (only if it has not been received before)! [quote]
[/quote] Place / Prize [olist]

Holy_Grailet 5, greengemstone 7, Bomb-o-mat, A Contraband Box of Goods x 3

Holy_Grailet 1, greengemstone 3 [/olist] Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) greengemstone = Spring Chest (limited, Spring Season only) In the case when at the end of the tournament two or more players will have equal number of tournament points, they will share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. However, the award list will not be extended, and we will still award only the top 10 players on each server.

TOURNAMENT CHESTS FAQ:

Q. Where do Tournament Chests drop? A. Only in tournament sessions, which are available via Multiplayer Lobby. Q. If I've finished all my tournament sessions, can I get more tournament chests? A. Yes, as long as you will keep playing tournament sessions. Q. Are the tournament items limited to this tournament only, or to tournaments in general? A. The tournament items are available via tournament chests, which drop during every official tournament in the game. Q. Is there a full list of tournament items available via tournament chests? A. Yes, please see below:

• Message No need to thank me. (uncommon)
• Message Nothing personal. (uncommon)
• Emoticon Winner (uncommon)
• Emoticon Thief (uncommon)
• Lobby icon Darbl fon Murblenton (rare)
• Player profile Trophy shelf (rare)
• Main menu background The Champion (rare)
• Governor frame The Governor of Governors (contraband)
• Blueprint Blueprint: "The Ruffian" (contraband)
• Special item Bomb-o-mat (contraband)
• Token trail Champion's trail (illegal)

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[ 2021-05-05 10:23:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

SET OF RULES FOR MAY, 2021

CHAOS CARDS

A Sacrifice

The Agent of Chaos

The Army of Chaos

A Diversion in the Astral Plane

The Allies of Chaos

CARDS

Eternal Mortgage

Toxic Waste

Racketeering!

A Fence

Prize Fund

A Bag of Money

Corporate Scam

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• every player starts with an active permanent card The Astral Elevator;
• the number of all non-permanent Astral cards in the deck is doubled;
• The Astral Elevator card is free to play but gives no points;
• The Counterfeit and The Confiscation cards are removed from the deck.

0 tournament points [/olist]

votes RULES:

Sessions that count towards the tournament: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (8) For each defeated opponent ("defeated" means that at the end of a session the player has a lower final position than yours), you receive additional tournament points. The number of points depends on the number of victories (1st places) of the defeated opponents in the current tournament. Important: these additional points also are added to your overall tournament score retrospectively, when the players previously defeated by you achieve victories in the tournament even if you already have reached the limit of sessions for the tournament. What this means is that you keep getting tournament points as long as your previously defeated opponents continue to play, and win. During this tournament, regular rating points will be frozen for all the players. Your tournament sessions will NOT affect your regular rating. Players get tournament points for the first 8 sessions played in the tournament on each of the servers. Any subsequent sessions won't give any tournament points, and won't increase the number of defeated opponents who give additional points. Nonetheless, victories of all opponents who were defeated in the first 8 sessions will affect your final tournament rating.

PRIZE FUND:

Awarded: Top 10 players on each of the servers. In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all 8 tournament sessions receives a special bonus player icon Facepalm (only if it has not been received before)! [quote]
[/quote] Place / Prize [olist]

Holy_Grailet 5, greengemstone 7, Bomb-o-mat, A Contraband Box of Goods x 3

Holy_Grailet 1, greengemstone 3 [/olist] Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) greengemstone = Spring Chest (limited, Spring Season only) In the case when at the end of the tournament two or more players will have equal number of tournament points, they will share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. However, the award list will not be extended, and we will still award only the top 10 players on each server.

TOURNAMENT CHESTS FAQ:

Q. Where do Tournament Chests drop? A. Only in tournament sessions, which are available via Multiplayer Lobby. Q. If I've finished all my tournament sessions, can I get more tournament chests? A. Yes, as long as you will keep playing tournament sessions. Q. Are the tournament items limited to this tournament only, or to tournaments in general? A. The tournament items are available via tournament chests, which drop during every official tournament in the game. Q. Is there a full list of tournament items available via tournament chests? A. Yes, please see below:

• Message No need to thank me. (uncommon)
• Message Nothing personal. (uncommon)
• Emoticon Winner (uncommon)
• Emoticon Thief (uncommon)
• Lobby icon Darbl fon Murblenton (rare)
• Player profile Trophy shelf (rare)
• Main menu background The Champion (rare)
• Governor frame The Governor of Governors (contraband)
• Blueprint Blueprint: "The Ruffian" (contraband)
• Special item Bomb-o-mat (contraband)
• Token trail Champion's trail (illegal)

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[ 2021-04-22 09:38:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

SET OF RULES FOR APRIL, 2021

CHARACTERS

The Damned

The Pauper

CARDS

Investigation

An Inspection

Forbidden Knowledge

Cold Deck

Dear friends: Gremlins, Inc. just celebrated the 5th anniversary of its full release on Steam. Thanks to your continued interest, comments and suggestions we are able to keep improving the game with more features and expanding it with more content. You, our loyal audience, are the primary motivation of our development team thank you so much for this amazing journey together!
Since late 2017, were working on our studios next game, Spire of Sorcery, which proved to be a bigger challenge. After spending 2018 and 2019 developing a product that was too broadly defined to be playable, we changed the direction and spent 2020 in a high stress, high output mode creating something much more specific a turn-based tactical exploration game that by now is finally getting more and more fun with every weekly update. We hope to introduce you to the dangerous world of Rund, across which you must lead a party of the runaway mages, later this year when Spire of Sorcery enters the general Early Access.
Finally, already in 2021, we started the pre-production on our third game that returns us to the roots of the digital board game genre. We cannot reveal what it is, yet, but let us share with you this fact: already last week, we were able to complete the first multiplayer session in that game played by the three of us, from three different cities. Were going to use our experience to give you something thats not only fun at its core, but also brings a lot of the most requested features such as team ranked play, built-in tournaments and peer-to-peer custom multiplayer sessions. We do not have yet any estimate of when this game might enter Early Access, but we hope for the best perhaps, it will happen already this year.
We thank you for being a part of this exciting period and for your generous support of our development efforts, and we with you all the best! With warm regards from Vilnius, A city of many cultures and many languages, The team of Charlie Oscar

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0 tournament points [/olist]

votes RULES:

Sessions that count towards the tournament: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (8) For each defeated opponent ("defeated" means that at the end of a session the player has a lower final position than yours), you receive additional tournament points. The number of points depends on the number of victories (1st places) of the defeated opponents in the current tournament. Important: these additional points also are added to your overall tournament score retrospectively, when the players previously defeated by you achieve victories in the tournament even if you already have reached the limit of sessions for the tournament. What this means is that you keep getting tournament points as long as your previously defeated opponents continue to play, and win. During this tournament, regular rating points will be frozen for all the players. Your tournament sessions will NOT affect your regular rating. Players get tournament points for the first 8 sessions played in the tournament on each of the servers. Any subsequent sessions won't give any tournament points, and won't increase the number of defeated opponents who give additional points. Nonetheless, victories of all opponents who were defeated in the first 8 sessions will affect your final tournament rating.

PRIZE FUND:

Awarded: Top 10 players on each of the servers. In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all 8 tournament sessions receives a special bonus player icon Facepalm (only if it has not been received before)! [quote]
[/quote] Place / Prize [olist]

Holy_Grailet 5, greengemstone 7, Bomb-o-mat, A Contraband Box of Goods x 3

Holy_Grailet 1, greengemstone 3 [/olist] Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) greengemstone = Spring Chest (limited, Spring Season only) In the case when at the end of the tournament two or more players will have equal number of tournament points, they will share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. However, the award list will not be extended, and we will still award only the top 10 players on each server.

TOURNAMENT CHESTS FAQ:

Q. Where do Tournament Chests drop? A. Only in tournament sessions, which are available via Multiplayer Lobby. Q. If I've finished all my tournament sessions, can I get more tournament chests? A. Yes, as long as you will keep playing tournament sessions. Q. Are the tournament items limited to this tournament only, or to tournaments in general? A. The tournament items are available via tournament chests, which drop during every official tournament in the game. Q. Is there a full list of tournament items available via tournament chests? A. Yes, please see below:

• Message No need to thank me. (uncommon)
• Message Nothing personal. (uncommon)
• Emoticon Winner (uncommon)
• Emoticon Thief (uncommon)
• Lobby icon Darbl fon Murblenton (rare)
• Player profile Trophy shelf (rare)
• Main menu background The Champion (rare)
• Governor frame The Governor of Governors (contraband)
• Blueprint Blueprint: "The Ruffian" (contraband)
• Special item Bomb-o-mat (contraband)
• Token trail Champion's trail (illegal)

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[ 2021-03-19 09:03:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

Due to multiple changes that we made in the Winter update in regard to characters' balance, there will be no changes in the rules for March. We want to have more time to see how characters perform within the same environment before we start changing it. For example, the Politician, who looked rather weak in the first weeks after the update now looks much better since players learned how to take advantage of its new set of abilities. We don't want to rush any changes until the new meta becomes more stable. The results of this month will define the changes that might happen in April.

SET OF RULES FOR MARCH, 2021

Dear friends: In the time since we released the major Winter Update, we identified a few areas where we could further improve player experience.
Here's what we change with today's update:

• Mulligan's timer at the start of a session is increased by a further 15 seconds.
• User interface now correctly indicates the Politician as the favorite candidate if "Connections at the Parliament" (+votes2 before the Elections) makes the difference.
• The effect of "The Evil Statue" no longer triggers if player gets malice from a Misfortune that was received from cards such as "Karma", "The Lesser Evil", etc.
• The effect of "The Common Funds" is no longer triggered twice if player is arrested while skipping turn at the Plant or at the Astral.
• The Banker's ability "Hedging the risk" is no longer triggered if player used "A Prank" to exchange place with another player.
• Request window for the Banker's ability "Hedging the risk" now has the correct name.
• Abilities that show a request window (such as "Hedging the risk", "Pickpocketing" or "Shaking the tail") no longer keep that window open if player didn't react in time and the decision was made by the bot.
• The visual log after "Demon'stration" is played now correctly shows that player receives not only money, but also malice for each score that is taken from other players.

This is a preview of all of the upcoming changes. The update itself will be released 11.02. IMPORTANT: due to significant internal changes in the code, saves that are made in the current version of the game won't be compatible with the new version of the game we apologize for the inconvenience. Dear players: We congratulate those of you who celebrate the Lunar New Year, and we wish everyone health and prosperity. May this year give you the strength, the resolve and the patience to change the world for the better, and to help those in need! Traditionally, around this time of the year we release a major update for Gremlins, Inc., and this year is not an exception: today's update is especially heavy with balancing changes that touch upon characters, cards, and even locations as well as with new features and quality of life improvements. Let's look at the changes one by one:

SPECIAL CONTENT DEDICATED TO LUNAR NEW YEAR

• a special animated background for main menu
• a new original music track created by A.Fruit
• a new emoticon

NEW FEATURE: IN-GAME PAUSE

NEW FEATURE: MULLIGAN SYSTEM

NEW CARD: "ADMISSION OF FAULT"

NEW CARD: "CORPORATE SCAM"

CHANGES IN LOCATIONS

CHANGES IN SPECIAL CHARACTER ABILITIES

CHANGES IN CARDS

QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS

FIXES

WHAT'S NEXT?

SET OF RULES FOR FEBRUARY, 2021

SET OF RULES FOR JANUARY, 2021

Visiting the voters

Holy_Grailet 30.12.2020 12:00 PM GMT 04.01.2021 12:00 PM GMT Holy_Grailet

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0 tournament points [/olist]

votes RULES:

Please keep in mind that since rating points are frozen during tournaments and the monthly rating reset happens on the 1st day of each month, the December season actually ends a bit earlier, with the beginning of the tournament. Sessions that count towards the tournament: Europe: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (14) Asia: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (18) For each defeated opponent ("defeated" means that at the end of a session the player has a lower final position than yours), you receive additional tournament points. The number of points depends on the number of victories (1st places) of the defeated opponents in the current tournament. Important: these additional points also are added to your overall tournament score retrospectively, when the players previously defeated by you achieve victories in the tournament even if you already have reached the limit of sessions for the tournament. What this means is that you keep getting tournament points as long as your previously defeated opponents continue to play, and win. During this tournament, regular rating points will be frozen for all the players. Your tournament sessions will NOT affect your regular rating. Players get tournament points for the first 14/18 (depending on server) sessions played in the tournament on each of the servers. Any subsequent sessions won't give any tournament points, and won't increase the number of defeated opponents who give additional points. Nonetheless, victories of all opponents who were defeated in the first 14/18 sessions will affect your final tournament rating.

PRIZE FUND:

Awarded: Top 20 players on each of the servers. In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all tournament sessions receives a special bonus player icon Facepalm (only if it has not been received before)! [quote]
[/quote] Place / Prize [olist]

Holy_Grailet x3, flake x3. [/olist] Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) flake = Winter Chest (limited, Winter Season only) In the case when at the end of the tournament two or more players will have equal number of tournament points, they will share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. However, the award list will not be extended, and we will still award only the top 20 players on each server.

TOURNAMENT CHESTS FAQ:

Q. Where do Tournament Chests drop? A. Only in tournament sessions, which are available via Multiplayer Lobby. Q. If I've finished all my tournament sessions, can I get more tournament chests? A. Yes, as long as you will keep playing tournament sessions. Q. Are the tournament items limited to this tournament only, or to tournaments in general? A. The tournament items are available via tournament chests, which drop during every official tournament in the game. Q. Is there a full list of tournament items available via tournament chests? A. Yes, please see below:

• Message No need to thank me. (uncommon)
• Message Nothing personal. (uncommon)
• Emoticon Winner (uncommon)
• Emoticon Thief (uncommon)
• Lobby icon Darbl fon Murblenton (rare)
• Player profile Trophy shelf (rare)
• Main menu background The Champion (rare)
• Governor frame The Governor of Governors (contraband)
• Blueprint Blueprint: "The Ruffian" (contraband)
• Special item Bomb-o-mat (contraband)
• Token trail Champion's trail (illegal)

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[ 2020-12-25 11:28:48 CET ] [ Original post ]

Holy_Grailet 11.12 12:00 PM GMT 14.12 12:00 PM GMT Holy_Grailet

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0 tournament points [/olist]

votes RULES:

Sessions that count towards the tournament: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (8) For each defeated opponent ("defeated" means that at the end of a session the player has a lower final position than yours), you receive additional tournament points. The number of points depends on the number of victories (1st places) of the defeated opponents in the current tournament. Important: these additional points also are added to your overall tournament score retrospectively, when the players previously defeated by you achieve victories in the tournament even if you already have reached the limit of sessions for the tournament. What this means is that you keep getting tournament points as long as your previously defeated opponents continue to play, and win. During this tournament, regular rating points will be frozen for all the players. Your tournament sessions will NOT affect your regular rating. Players get tournament points for the first 8 sessions played in the tournament on each of the servers. Any subsequent sessions won't give any tournament points, and won't increase the number of defeated opponents who give additional points. Nonetheless, victories of all opponents who were defeated in the first 8 sessions will affect your final tournament rating.

PRIZE FUND:

Awarded: Top 10 players on each of the servers. In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all 8 tournament sessions receives a special bonus player icon Facepalm (only if it has not been received before)! [quote]
[/quote] Place / Prize [olist]

Holy_Grailet 5, flake 7, Bomb-o-mat, A Contraband Box of Goods x 3

Holy_Grailet 1, flake 3 [/olist] Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) flake = Winter Chest (limited, Winter Season only) In the case when at the end of the tournament two or more players will have equal number of tournament points, they will share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. However, the award list will not be extended, and we will still award only the top 10 players on each server.

TOURNAMENT CHESTS FAQ:

Q. Where do Tournament Chests drop? A. Only in tournament sessions, which are available via Multiplayer Lobby. Q. If I've finished all my tournament sessions, can I get more tournament chests? A. Yes, as long as you will keep playing tournament sessions. Q. Are the tournament items limited to this tournament only, or to tournaments in general? A. The tournament items are available via tournament chests, which drop during every official tournament in the game. Q. Is there a full list of tournament items available via tournament chests? A. Yes, please see below:

• Message No need to thank me. (uncommon)
• Message Nothing personal. (uncommon)
• Emoticon Winner (uncommon)
• Emoticon Thief (uncommon)
• Lobby icon Darbl fon Murblenton (rare)
• Player profile Trophy shelf (rare)
• Main menu background The Champion (rare)
• Governor frame The Governor of Governors (contraband)
• Blueprint Blueprint: "The Ruffian" (contraband)
• Special item Bomb-o-mat (contraband)
• Token trail Champion's trail (illegal)

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[ 2020-12-09 11:29:38 CET ] [ Original post ]

SET OF RULES FOR DECEMBER, 2020

Devil's Due

Once upon a time we created a Gremlins, Inc. bundle called The Governor Edition. Players could save an additional 20% when upgrading from owning just the game and one or two DLCs to owning the whole set. Owners of that bundle also got special items during the celebration of the Lunar New Year each year. With the recent release of Agents of Chaos, we saw that we cannot really keep expanding The Governor Edition further since it would require players to purchase too many DLCs at once. And so, we created The Governor Edition 2. Heres what you need to know As of today, The Governor Edition contains: Gremlins, Inc. Gremlins, Inc. Uninvited Guests Gremlins, Inc. Automated Competitors Gremlins, Inc. Astral Gamblers Gremlins, Inc. Original Soundtrack It works as complete the set and offers a discount of 20% that applies on top of any other discounts for any of its contents. Owners of this edition (whether purchased as a bundle or separately, doesnt matter; we just check for ownership of all the content) receive the following items:

• Flying Lanterns (global effect)
• The Automated Rooster (main menu background)
• Melody of the Automated Rooster (original music track)
• Saving Up (emoticon)
• The Flying Piglet (main menu background)
• Melody of the Flying Piglet (original music track)

• Automatic Dice-roller (special item)
• Automated Dog (emoticon)
• Steel Rat (lobby icon)
• The Jet Rat (main menu background)
• Melody of the Jet Rat (original music track)
• The Zeppelin Hound (main menu background)
• Melody of the Zeppelin Hound (original music track)

SET OF RULES FOR NOVEMBER, 2020

• The new formula comes into force. We can't stress enough the importance of that change the strategy of playing for any other place rather than the first, will lead to the loss of rating! Please remember this when you participate in ranked sessions with 3 or more players. With the new formula, your main goal is to win the session, or at least to have a minimal difference in points with the winner, as the difference now defines the amount of rating that you lose if you didn't win the session. To mitigate the loss of the rating, you must prevent the leader from winning and accumulate more points for yourself but not to attack opponents on second or lower places, as this strategy won't help you anymore.
• The rating of all players on the European server is reset to 100.00. Due to the significance of the change in the formula, we think it is fair that all players on that server start a new season from the same position. Please keep in mind, this only happens on the European server. As per suggestions from the community, the Asian server, which uses 2-player mode for ranked sessions, keeps the old formula, therefore there is no need to reset the rating of all players to the same level. This reset will only happen once. In future seasons, we return to the system where players partially retain the rating that they have accumulated during the previous season.

The Banker

The Manager

Dear community: We have updated the Original Soundtrack of Gremlins, Inc. with 2 new music tracks: Nostalgic Tune and The Beat of Chaos. This expands the soundtrack to 33 tracks, with the total playtime of 1 hour and 31 minutes. If you own the Original Soundtrack DLC, the new tracks are now available for you via free Steam update. https://store.steampowered.com/app/459851/Gremlins_Inc__Original_Soundtrack/ We wish you all the best, and hope that a bit of new music will improve your mood Team CO

Dear community: This week we made the decision to adjust the pricing for the downloadable content of Gremlins, Inc. The following DLCs will see their prices increased from October 28, 2020: Gremlins, Inc. Uninvited Guests Gremlins, Inc. Automated Competitors Gremlins, Inc. Astral Gamblers Gremlins, Inc. Famous Figures The new prices effective from October 28, 2020 will be as follows: US: $9.99 EU: 9.99 UK: 9.99 Japan: 1000 South Korea: 10000 China: 38 Russia: 295 Ukraine: 100 CIS: $ 3.99 Poland: z 19,99 (other currencies will be adjusted accordingly) The following DLCs will not have any changes in their current pricing: Gremlins, Inc. Original Soundtrack Gremlins, Inc. Digital Artbook Gremlins, Inc. Card Game, Print & Play Set These DLCs will keep their current prices of: US: $4.99 EU: 4.99 UK: 4.99 Japan: 560 South Korea: 5000 China: 23 Russia: 149 Ukraine: 50 CIS: $ 1.99 Poland: z 9,99 (other currencies will also remain unchanged)

• The main reason for this changes is that we want to speed up the development of new content for Gremlins, Inc., which requires additional budget. The dev team behind this game depends on the revenue that we get through sales, and every extra bit allows us to commission more art, more music, as well as to progress faster with the code of the game.
• In conversations with the community, we heard for a long time that having played for 100 hours, for 200 hours or for 600 hours, the extra few dollars don't really matter if you're interested in supporting the project by purchasing its DLCs. On the other hand, those who don't love the game that much, will not purchase the DLCs no matter the pice.
• We expect the actual numbers of copies sold of these DLCs to decrease, while maintaining the revenue or seeing it increase by 10-15%. Let us be clear: we do not expect that we will double the revenue this is simply not how markets work. But we do expect a moderate increase, which goes a long way towards helping us move faster with the new content and features; and most of these features and content we release as FREE updates available to every player.

Five years ago, our development team launched Gremlins, Inc. on Steam in Early Access. Since then, we released over 100 game updates that introduced new content and new features, as well as balanced the existing mechanics, and it seems like you guys have appreciated it: Gremlins, Inc. is now owned by over 700.000 players on Steam, and a thriving player community that we love dearly. When we designed and developed the game in 2014-2015, we were rather naive. Thankfully, with the feedback from the community and through constant game updates, we were able to wisen up along the way, improving the game based on what players enjoyed the most. And youll be happy to know that the whole of this year we were working on the tools that will allow us to improve the game further, and in a much more radical way than before!
Some surprises that we discovered in the last 5 years:

• Less than 20% of Gremlins, Inc.'s audience speaks English as their native language; most players speak the other 12 languages that the game supports (from Japanese to French). We grew up thinking that English language and American market are responsible for the success of any game, but this does not apply to our case!
• 50% of all sessions played in Gremlins, Inc. are played in single-player mode. When we released the game in 2015, it didnt even have single-player mode! But once we realised that this is what players want, we rolled it out and its been in much demand. Today we make two big steps forward with this mode (details below).
• Goodwill can move mountains. Like many young developers, we werent very flexible at the beginning, and the more people criticised our decisions, the harder we stuck to them. But then, an amazing thing happened: a friendly community of players from Japan, Russia, China and other countries sprang up, and asked for the same things nicely! So instead of explaining how this cannot be done!, we started looking for solutions, and found a way to make almost everything happen.

SPECIAL 5TH ANNIVERSARY CONTENT

• To celebrate the 5th anniversary of Gremlins, Inc. on Steam, we commissioned a new original music track from A.Fruit which sends you back in time to the earlier days of the game. Nostalgic tune will be available to everyone in the game for the next two weeks, at which point it will transition to an item that you can get for free from the in-game chests.
• We also asked our artists, Monika and Rita, to create a new main menu background that features some of the favourite gremlin items from the cards in the deck. Everyone will see this background in the game for the next two weeks, and then it also becomes a free drop. See if you can spot every object in this background, and identify the card that it comes from!

BOTS 2.0

• the bots are now generally smarter beware!
• bots no longer discard their starting hand at the start of the session
• bots are now much more careful when choosing Misfortunes: they will choose the worst possible Misfortune for their opponent, and the best possible for themselves
• bots now better understand the rules of different spots and locations: for example, if they have money to spend, they will pay to increase their chances of success on Tribune, and they will generally stop entering locations where they cannot achieve any meaningful result
• when bots plan their way around the playing field, they now take into consideration whether or not theres a Misfortune spot on the way; moreover, if the session is played with open Misfortunes, then the bots will actually consider the Misfortune thats expected to happen to them along the way
• bots are now more conscious of their income, and will try to match the income of other players by investing more aggressively at the Bank
• most importantly, bots are now much better at judging the other players and identifying the most dangerous opponents!

RANKED LADDER 2.0

MODDING TOOLS & UPDATED CARD DESCRIPTIONS

NEW CARDS

CHANGES IN SPECIAL CHARACTER ABILITIES

CHANGES IN CARDS

AGENTS OF CHAOS

• 12 new character portraits and player tokens of gremlins transformed into Agents of Chaos
• Trail of Chaos, probably the most dangerous token trail in the game
• The Governor of Chaos, a Governor frame that inspires both fear and respect
• Touch of Chaos, a unique emoticon that illustrates the transformation of a regular gremlin into something more sinister!
• Gates of Chaos, a new original main menu background
• The Beat of Chaos, a new original music track that packs as much of a punch as all the other tracks combined!
• Agent of Chaos, a medal for player profile that is yours to keep to scare away potential trouble-makers.

WHATS NEXT?

• preparing the modding tools for release to the community: its a big task, but were going to get it done, so that you can try to bend the mechanics of Gremlins, Inc. whichever way you want!
• creating two new cards for the Winter Update. If you have some ideas, please share on the games official Discord server!
• prototyping a possible new DLC tentatively set for February 2021, which may transport gremlins into cyberpunk Japan! Were still exploring the possibility: think of aesthetics of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Yokohama and Kobe, think about Japanese heavy metal, neon signs, and an ambience straight from AKIRA done in close coordination with the Japanese community of the game. Would this be something up your valley? Please let us know in the comments!!

SET OF RULES FOR OCTOBER, 2020

Cards adjustments

A Second Chance

Investigation

Holy_Grailet 25.09 12:00 PM GMT 28.09 12:00 PM GMT Holy_Grailet

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0 tournament points [/olist]

votes RULES:

Sessions that count towards the tournament: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (8) For each defeated opponent ("defeated" means that at the end of a session the player has a lower final position than yours), you receive additional tournament points. The number of points depends on the number of victories (1st places) of the defeated opponents in the current tournament. Important: these additional points also are added to your overall tournament score retrospectively, when the players previously defeated by you achieve victories in the tournament even if you already have reached the limit of sessions for the tournament. What this means is that you keep getting tournament points as long as your previously defeated opponents continue to play, and win. During this tournament, regular rating points will be frozen for all the players. Your tournament sessions will NOT affect your regular rating. Players get tournament points for the first 8 sessions played in the tournament on each of the servers. Any subsequent sessions won't give any tournament points, and won't increase the number of defeated opponents who give additional points. Nonetheless, victories of all opponents who were defeated in the first 8 sessions will affect your final tournament rating.

PRIZE FUND:

Awarded: Top 10 players on each of the servers. In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all 8 tournament sessions receives a special bonus player icon Facepalm (only if it has not been received before)! [quote]
[/quote] Place / Prize [olist]

Holy_Grailet 5, pumpking 7, Bomb-o-mat, A Contraband Box of Goods x 3

Holy_Grailet 1, pumpking 3 [/olist] Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) pumpking = Autumn Chest (limited, Autumn Season only) In the case when at the end of the tournament two or more players will have equal number of tournament points, they will share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. However, the award list will not be extended, and we will still award only the top 10 players on each server.

TOURNAMENT CHESTS FAQ:

Q. Where do Tournament Chests drop? A. Only in tournament sessions, which are available via Multiplayer Lobby. Q. If I've finished all my tournament sessions, can I get more tournament chests? A. Yes, as long as you will keep playing tournament sessions. Q. Are the tournament items limited to this tournament only, or to tournaments in general? A. The tournament items are available via tournament chests, which drop during every official tournament in the game. Q. Is there a full list of tournament items available via tournament chests? A. Yes, please see below:

• Message No need to thank me. (uncommon)
• Message Nothing personal. (uncommon)
• Emoticon Winner (uncommon)
• Emoticon Thief (uncommon)
• Lobby icon Darbl fon Murblenton (rare)
• Player profile Trophy shelf (rare)
• Main menu background The Champion (rare)
• Governor frame The Governor of Governors (contraband)
• Blueprint Blueprint: "The Ruffian" (contraband)
• Special item Bomb-o-mat (contraband)
• Token trail Champion's trail (illegal)

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[ 2020-09-21 11:10:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

SET OF RULES FOR SEPTEMBER, 2020

A Prank

A Set-Up

Robbery!

A Deal with the Devil

Forbidden Knowledge

Diablerie

"DICE-ROLLER"

A new approach to the calculationof player rating in Gremlins, Inc.

• When a ranked session ends, each participant finishes it at a particular place (1st, 2nd, etc.).
• Each player takes rating points from every opponent who has finished at a lower place than them.
• Player at the 1st place takes points from 3 other players (if we look at 4-player ranked sessions on the European server). This player gets the most rating points.
• Player at the 2nd place takes rating points from those who occupy 3rd and 4th places, while giving some of their own points to the player who took the 1st place. The exchange is almost always good enough for the player at the 2nd place to increase their rating points.
• Players in 3rd and 4th places lose rating points, because they give away more than they take from others.

Changes that we plan to introduce

• Players who have lost the session do not take rating points from each other. Only the winner takes rating points from other players. This means that victory is the only way to progress higher on the ranked ladder. If you didnt win a session, you almost certainly will lose some rating points, even if you ended at the 2nd place.
• When you lose, you can mitigate the loss of rating points but this doesnt happen at the expense of other players. If you didnt win, your final position doesnt matter instead, your final score matters. The closer you are to the leader, the fewer rating points you will lose (up to 0 if your score is equal and the victory was achieved by the second tie-break).
• The formula ignores the difference in rating that the players had prior to the session. It doesnt matter if you are a strong player who has won against a weaker player, or vice versa. All that matters is how well each one of you performed in this particular session. This is because the matchmaking and the game itself can be quite random at times. We prefer not to have an extra punishment/reward for victories and losses that happened at the whim of luck. We want an environment where the only thing that matters is the players personal performance i.e., the score that was achieved during the session.

What do we want to achieve with this change?

• In sessions with 3 or more players, this eliminates any logical reason to play for any other place than the first one. If you cannot be the most prestigious gremlin in this session, you will lose prestige as the result. But even then, your best approach is to keep playing against the leader.
• This addresses the issues of 3-player sessions. When 2 out of 3 places are guaranteed to lose rating at the end of the session, the only viable strategy to avoid it for the 2nd and 3rd places is to play against the leader instead of playing against each other (which often happens under the current system).
• Sessions for rounds instead of sessions for points should become much more viable. The further the leader runs away with their high score, the bigger everyones loss of rating points gets. So it is in everyones interest to control the leader instead of hassling with each other for the 2nd or 3rd places.
• With these fixes, the available sets of rules for ranked sessions will increase without compromising with the quality of gameplay.
• Having a high rating would mean a lot! Since the only way to increase rating is to win sessions, players at the top of the ladder will prove that they are absolutely the best at winning, not just at seizing an opportunity of getting points at the 2nd place and minimizing their losses at the 3rd place. This will be true for all types of sessions, except for duels. Duels already are like that.

What are the possible issues with the new system?

• If everyone but the winner loses rating points, ranked sessions might become somewhat discouraging. Success is hard to achieve and keep because anything but victory brings you down to a certain degree. Does this make the mode more competitive? Absolutely. More interesting? Mostly for those who are competitive, ready to play in such an environment, and most importantly are able to win often enough to move forward and raise their rating. But maybe this is exactly what the ranked mode should be: a competition among those who are interested in competing, and a competition for victory instead of a hassle for a higher place? We would love to put this theory in practice and see how this affects the game.
• Griefing might become a bigger issue because players who do not care about their rating will be able to cause more harm by attacking their personal target instead of the leader. On the other hand, revenge makes no sense in such an environment because pushing an opponent under yourself will not affect your own rating. And it is quite possible that griefers will fastly drop to the very bottom of the ladder simply because it will be hard to keep your rating high when you obviously aren't playing optimally.
• Griefing in duels. This issue is specific to duels. A player who is far ahead and has full control over the situation refuses to end the session and keeps playing for dozens of rounds just to boost their ego and/or humiliate the opponent? The new system might make such behavior more attractive, and technically it won't be against the rules. There are multiple ways to fix this, starting from the simplest: duels will be played for rounds instead of points, so each session would have an easily predictable end time. Other possibilities that are more sophisticated in design and implementation include the option for the players to surrender after a certain number of rounds has passed, or an option where sessions have two end conditions: the session ends if one of the participants reaches X points or after the fixed number of rounds.

"HONORARY ESCORT"

Holy_Grailet 14.08 12:00 PM GMT 17.08 12:00 PM GMT Holy_Grailet

steampunk EUROPE

0 tournament points [/olist]

votes RULES:

Sessions that count towards the tournament: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (8) For each win, players receive additional points that depend on the strength of the opponents over whom they have won. Important: your tournament points will continue to increase with the increase in the tournament score of your past opponents, over whom you prevailed even if you already have reached the limit of sessions for the tournament. What this means is that the tournament is never over for you as long as your previously conquered opponents continue to play, and win. During this tournament, regular rating points will be frozen for all the players. Your tournament sessions will NOT affect your regular rating. Players get tournament points for the first 8 sessions played in the tournament on each of the servers. Any subsequent sessions won't give any tournament points, and won't increase the number of defeated opponents who give additional points. Nonetheless, victories of all opponents who were defeated in the first 8 sessions will affect your final tournament rating.

PRIZE FUND:

Awarded: Top 10 players on each of the servers. In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all 8 tournament sessions receives a special bonus player icon Facepalm (only if it has not been received before)! [quote]
[/quote] Place / Prize [olist]

Holy_Grailet 5, sunnyemo 7, Bomb-o-mat, A Contraband Box of Goods x 3

Holy_Grailet 1, sunnyemo 3 [/olist] Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) sunnyemo = Summer Chest (limited, Summer Season only) In the case when at the end of the tournament two or more players will have equal number of tournament points, they will share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. However, the award list will not be extended, and we will still award only the top 10 players on each server.

TOURNAMENT CHESTS FAQ:

Q. Where do Tournament Chests drop? A. Only in tournament sessions, which are available via Multiplayer Lobby. Q. If I've finished all my tournament sessions, can I get more tournament chests? A. Yes, as long as you will keep playing tournament sessions. Q. Are the tournament items limited to this tournament only, or to tournaments in general? A. The tournament items are available via tournament chests, which drop during every official tournament in the game. Q. Is there a full list of tournament items available via tournament chests? A. Yes, please see below:

• Message No need to thank me. (uncommon)
• Message Nothing personal. (uncommon)
• Emoticon Winner (uncommon)
• Emoticon Thief (uncommon)
• Lobby icon Darbl fon Murblenton (rare)
• Player profile Trophy shelf (rare)
• Main menu background The Champion (rare)
• Governor frame The Governor of Governors (contraband)
• Blueprint Blueprint: "The Ruffian" (contraband)
• Special item Bomb-o-mat (contraband)
• Token trail Champion's trail (illegal)

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[ 2020-08-13 11:29:52 CET ] [ Original post ]

Dear community: On July 7 we have initiated a series of tests in order to improve connection for our Asia-based players. Firstly, we moved our Asian servers from Singapore to Khabarovsk. While for us, as a studio, Khabarovsk would have been better than Singapore for a number of reasons (its cheaper to run and were able to update and upgrade the servers there much faster), we decided against this change. Both the feedback of Asia-based players and our internal technical tests have shown no significant improvements over Singapore. And in some cases, it became even worse. Secondly, we moved our Asian servers to Hong-Kong. Were happy to report that this transfer has achieved our goal: the hub in Hong-Kong provides better hardware than Singapore (albeit, substantially more expensive) and, more importantly, it provides a much better connection for the majority of our Asia-based players. The feedback from the community that we received after the transfer was very positive, and our internal tests show steady improvement across all the thousands of sessions that were played there. To give you a better picture, wed like to share some data: In the week since the last transfer, over 5,000 sessions have been played in Hong-Kong. The tests show that the number of sessions with any connectivity issues has decreased by 35% compared to Singapore. This means that hundreds of players now enjoy better player experience, which is the most important metric for us. We are very grateful to our player community, especially to our Japanese, Chinese and Korea communities, for the patience that you have demonstrated while we were looking for a way to improve the server situation in Asia. Thank you for being a part of this journey! ______
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The first stage of the test is over. Both the community feedback and the data that we have received during the tests show no significant benefits of Khabarovsk in comparison with the Singapore location. With that in mind, we're moving to the next step of the test, and to the next location: Hong-Kong. Please note: the transfer will happen on July 16, at 9:00 AM GMT (5:00 PM Beijing, 6:00 PM Tokyo), and will last approximately 3-4 hours. During this time, only the Amsterdam server cluster will be available! All your in-game stats, profiles, inventory items and so on, stays intact during and after the transfer. Additionally, the Amsterdam server cluster will remain available during the transfer, so you can continue playing there if you so wish. Once the transfer is done, both European and Asian server clusters will become available as usual. We will be testing the new cluster for up to 2 weeks after the move: again by gathering player feedback as well as running our own tests on how the change affects lags and connectivity for different players. ______
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Dear community: As we mentioned in the recent Summer Update, we are exploring the possibility to improve connection of our Asia-based servers. Some players (mostly from mainland China and from a few regions of Japan) may currently experience lags when playing on the Singapore server. Our next step is the following: on July 7, the Asian server cluster will be moved from Singapore to Khabarovsk. According to our server partner and to our preliminary tests, the new location may result in better connectivity for users from China as well as for users from Japan. Please note: the transfer will happen on July 7, at 11:59 AM GMT (7:59 PM Beijing, 8:59 PM Tokyo), and will last approximately 6-8 hours. During this time, the Singapore server cluster will be unavailable! All your in-game stats, profiles, inventory items and so on, stays intact during and after the transfer. Additionally, the Amsterdam server cluster will remain available during the transfer, so you can continue playing there if you so wish. Once the transfer is done, both European and Asian server clusters will become available as usual. We will be testing the new cluster for up to 2 weeks after the move: gathering player feedback as well as running our own tests on how the change affects lags and connectivity for different players. After that, we' will make the decision on whether we relocate the Asian server cluster to Khabarovsk permanently, or we need more tests in alternative locations (Hong-Kong and Tokyo are other possibilities). We apologize for the inconvenience to those who will be affected by the move during July 7, and we hope that even if your own player experience is great right now on the Singapore server, you will understand our effort to improve the experience of players who are currently experiencing there lags from time to time. Together, we can find the location that will make most of our players happier. Thank you! ______
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Holy_Grailet 03.07 12:00 PM GMT 06.07 12:00 PM GMT Holy_Grailet

steampunk AMSTERDAM

0 tournament points [/olist]

votes RULES:

Sessions that count towards the tournament: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (8) For each win, players receive additional points that depend on the strength of the opponents over whom they have won. Important: your tournament points will continue to increase with the increase in the tournament score of your past opponents, over whom you prevailed even if you already have reached the limit of sessions for the tournament. What this means is that the tournament is never over for you as long as your previously conquered opponents continue to play, and win. During this tournament, regular rating points will be frozen for all the players. Your tournament sessions will NOT affect your regular rating. Players get tournament points for the first 8 sessions played in the tournament on each of the servers. Any subsequent sessions won't give any tournament points, and won't increase the number of defeated opponents who give additional points. Nonetheless, victories of all opponents who were defeated in the first 8 sessions will affect your final tournament rating.

PRIZE FUND:

Awarded: Top 10 players on each of the servers. In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all 8 tournament sessions receives a special bonus player icon Facepalm (only if it has not been received before)! [quote]
[/quote] Place / Prize [olist]

Holy_Grailet 5, sunnyemo 7, Bomb-o-mat, A Contraband Box of Goods x 3

Holy_Grailet 1, sunnyemo 3 [/olist] Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) sunnyemo = Summer Chest (limited, Summer Season only) In the case when at the end of the tournament two or more players will have equal number of tournament points, they will share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. However, the award list will not be extended, and we will still award only the top 10 players on each server.

TOURNAMENT CHESTS FAQ:

Q. Where do Tournament Chests drop? A. Only in tournament sessions, which are available via Multiplayer Lobby. Q. If I've finished all my tournament sessions, can I get more tournament chests? A. Yes, as long as you will keep playing tournament sessions. Q. Are the tournament items limited to this tournament only, or to tournaments in general? A. The tournament items are available via tournament chests, which drop during every official tournament in the game. Q. Is there a full list of tournament items available via tournament chests? A. Yes, please see below:

• Message No need to thank me. (uncommon)
• Message Nothing personal. (uncommon)
• Emoticon Winner (uncommon)
• Emoticon Thief (uncommon)
• Lobby icon Darbl fon Murblenton (rare)
• Player profile Trophy shelf (rare)
• Main menu background The Champion (rare)
• Governor frame The Governor of Governors (contraband)
• Blueprint Blueprint: "The Ruffian" (contraband)
• Special item Bomb-o-mat (contraband)
• Token trail Champion's trail (illegal)

We congratulate the winners and wish good luck to everyone in future events! Thank you for being such an awesome community! votes ______
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[ 2020-07-01 09:20:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

The big Summer Update for Gremlins, Inc. is here, and as usual it brings new content and features as well as fixes and re-balancing changes. But before we jump into the details of the update, we wanted to share this information: malice At the end of 2019, we changed our server cluster in Singapore. A couple of months later, we discovered certain connectivity issues with the new server, and we did our best to fix them. We are aware that these efforts weren't entirely successful and some players, mostly from mainland China and certain regions of Japan, still might experience lags when they play the game on the Singapore server. We've spent the last 3 months trying dozens of options for addressing this issue, and we have no intention to leave it "as is" we will continue working on a solution. In the near future, we will be testing other geographical locations to see if moving the server from Singapore to another city could improve player experience in Asia. hypnoheart We are thankful for your patience and appreciate your understanding, and we hope to find the solution that will improve the experience of those players who currently may still experience lags. and now to the changes that this update brings to the game:

NEW FEATURES

Results of the previous seasons

More control over your custom multiplayer session lobby

NEW CONTENT

New card: "Charity"

New card: "Cold deck"

RE-BALANCING CHANGES

Election Campaign

Riskomatic-30

Contraband

Coup d'etat

Judgement Day

Undercutting the Competition

An Artifact

A Bag of Money

Jurors for hire

Robbery!

The Evil Statue

Misappropriation

Toxic Waste

Diablerie

A Prank

A Quest from Dariol

The Common Fund

OTHER CHANGES

Only the owners of the game can now join ranked/tournament sessions

Standard dice-roller changes

Illustrations adjustments

FIXES

• Fixed an issue: if the special rule A Box of Secrets is used during a session with bots, some cards would disappear from the deck in the course of the session. This was an absolutely bizarre issue that existed for a very long time and was discovered only recently, but now it's not the case anymore.
• Fixed a rare issue: if a player experiences heavy lags, it is possible that for the opponents their movement on the board would appear chaotic and absolutely impossible. This happened due to sync issues caused by lags and delays between the player's client and the server, and is now fixed.
• Fixed an issue: If the last Jail event was declined, the timer stays on the screen until it ends or until the next turn of that player begins. It's not the case anymore and the timer will disappear as soon as the action is completed.

Gremlins, Inc. will turn five years old in just four months, and we're happy to keep developing the game further by adding new features and new content as well as re-balancing the existing mechanics. Later this month, we will release the Summer Update. We'd like to share with you today the new content and the changes that we plan to make, in order to get your feedback. Please share your thoughts with us right here, or on the forums, or on the game's Discord server!

NEW CARDS

Charity

Cold deck

REBALANCING CHANGES

Election Campaign

Riskomatic-30

Contraband

Coup d'etat

Judgement Day

Undercutting the Competition

An Artifact

A Bag of Money

Jurors for hire

Robbery!

The Evil Statue

Misappropriation

Toxic Waste

Diablerie

A Prank

A Quest from Dariol

The Common Fund

steampunk AMSTERDAM cards players: 4 score victory condition: 30 points cursecard Chaos Cards: allowed health_powerup Character Abilities: allowed telegram Impending Misfortune: visible cheatdice Characters: from random set RatsClock Timer: normal Location Field: Clockwork town Special rules No. Tournament points (place in session/points gained): [olist]

0 tournament points [/olist] votes RULES: Sessions that count towards the tournament: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (8) For each win, players receive additional points that depend on the strength of the opponents over whom they have won. Important: your tournament points will continue to increase with the increase in the tournament score of your past opponents, over whom you prevailed even if you already have reached the limit of sessions for the tournament. What this means is that the tournament is never over for you as long as your previously conquered opponents continue to play, and win. During this tournament, regular rating points will be frozen for all the players. Your tournament sessions will NOT affect your regular rating. Players get tournament points for the first 8 sessions played in the tournament on each of the servers. Any subsequent sessions won't give any tournament points, and won't increase the number of defeated opponents who give additional points. Nonetheless, victories of all opponents who were defeated in the first 8 sessions will affect your final tournament rating.

PRIZE FUND:

Awarded: Top 10 players on each of the servers. In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all 8 tournament sessions receives a special bonus player icon Facepalm (only if it has not been received before)! [quote]
[/quote] Place / Prize [olist]

Holy_Grailet 5, greengemstone 7, Bomb-o-mat, A Contraband Box of Goods x 3

Holy_Grailet 1, greengemstone 3 [/olist] Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) greengemstone = Spring Chest (limited, Spring Season only) In the case when at the end of the tournament two or more players will have equal number of tournament points, they will share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. However, the award list will not be extended, and we will still award only the top 10 players on each server.

TOURNAMENT CHESTS FAQ:

Q. Where do Tournament Chests drop? A. Only in tournament sessions, which are available via Multiplayer Lobby. Q. If I've finished all my tournament sessions, can I get more tournament chests? A. Yes, as long as you will keep playing tournament sessions. Q. Are the tournament items limited to this tournament only, or to tournaments in general? A. The tournament items are available via tournament chests, which drop during every official tournament in the game. Q. Is there a full list of tournament items available via tournament chests? A. Yes, please see below:

• Message No need to thank me. (uncommon)
• Message Nothing personal. (uncommon)
• Emoticon Winner (uncommon)
• Emoticon Thief (uncommon)
• Lobby icon Darbl fon Murblenton (rare)
• Player profile Trophy shelf (rare)
• Main menu background The Champion (rare)
• Governor frame The Governor of Governors (contraband)
• Blueprint Blueprint: "The Ruffian" (contraband)
• Special item Bomb-o-mat (contraband)
• Token trail Champion's trail (illegal)

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[ 2020-04-30 08:58:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

On April 28, Gremlins, Inc. receives its major Spring update. The update includes 2 new cards, improvements in balance, more options for custom sessions, bug fixes, and a sizeable number of under-the-hood improvements. Below is the list of the changes:

NEW FEATURES

NEW CONTENT

BALANCING CHANGES

OTHER CHANGES

FIXES

• Fixed a rare issue: if during a session player receives the request to roll the die and skips that request, the bot will decide if the roll happens or not. If bot decides positively and then rolls 1, the session might bug out and freeze. After the update, the session will continue normally.
• Fixed a rare issue: if the timer expires during a dice re-roll, the result that is shown to the player on the screen and the result of the actual roll on the server could differ. This could lead to a different outcome than was expected by the look at the dice roller. After the update, the value on the dice roller and the server will always be the same.

steampunk AMSTERDAM cards players: 3 score victory condition: 30 points cursecard Chaos Cards: allowed health_powerup Character Abilities: allowed telegram Impending Misfortune: not visible cheatdice Characters: from random set RatsClock Timer: normal Location Field: Clockwork town Special rules No. Tournament points (place in session/points gained): [olist]

0 tournament points [/olist] votes RULES: Sessions that count towards the tournament: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (8) For each win, players receive additional points that depend on the strength of the opponents over whom they have won. Important: your tournament points will continue to increase with the increase in the tournament score of your past opponents, over whom you prevailed even if you already have reached the limit of sessions for the tournament. What this means is that the tournament is never over for you as long as your previously conquered opponents continue to play, and win. During this tournament, regular rating points will be frozen for all the players. Your tournament sessions will NOT affect your regular rating. Players get tournament points for the first 8 sessions played in the tournament on each of the servers. Any subsequent sessions won't give any tournament points, and won't increase the number of defeated opponents who give additional points. Nonetheless, victories of all opponents who were defeated in the first 8 sessions will affect your final tournament rating.

PRIZE FUND:

Awarded: Top 10 players on each of the servers. In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all 8 tournament sessions receives a special bonus player icon Facepalm (only if it has not been received before)! [quote]
[/quote] Place / Prize [olist]

Holy_Grailet 5, greengemstone 7, Bomb-o-mat, A Contraband Box of Goods x 3

Holy_Grailet 1, greengemstone 3 [/olist] Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) greengemstone = Spring Chest (limited, Spring Season only) In the case when at the end of the tournament two or more players will have equal number of tournament points, they will share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. However, the award list will not be extended, and we will still award only the top 10 players on each server.

TOURNAMENT CHESTS FAQ:

Q. Where do Tournament Chests drop? A. Only in tournament sessions, which are available via Multiplayer Lobby. Q. If I've finished all my tournament sessions, can I get more tournament chests? A. Yes, as long as you will keep playing tournament sessions. Q. Are the tournament items limited to this tournament only, or to tournaments in general? A. The tournament items are available via tournament chests, which drop during every official tournament in the game. Q. Is there a full list of tournament items available via tournament chests? A. Yes, please see below:

• Message No need to thank me. (uncommon)
• Message Nothing personal. (uncommon)
• Emoticon Winner (uncommon)
• Emoticon Thief (uncommon)
• Lobby icon Darbl fon Murblenton (rare)
• Player profile Trophy shelf (rare)
• Main menu background The Champion (rare)
• Governor frame The Governor of Governors (contraband)
• Blueprint Blueprint: "The Ruffian" (contraband)
• Special item Bomb-o-mat (contraband)
• Token trail Champion's trail (illegal)

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[ 2020-03-23 13:45:51 CET ] [ Original post ]

NEW MODDING TOOLS ALREADY IN PRODUCTION

THE AUDIENCE OF THE GAME KEEPS GROWING

BALANCING BASED ON SERVER DATA

TWO NEW CARDS

PRIZE FUND

SPIRE OF GREMLINS

Hello there! Based on the community feedback as well as the stats from tens of thousands of sessions completed on the servers of Gremlins, Inc., we plan to adjust special abilities of 2 characters. Before we do this, wed like to receive a bit more feedback please help us by commenting on this topic on Steam forums as well as on the games Discord server!

Expected adjustments of the Banker

• whenever you stop on one of the income spots, your income is increased by 2

• whenever you stop on one of the Income spots, your income is increased by a value equal to the number of opponents in the session (in team sessions, only players of opposing teams count as opponents)

Expected adjustments of the Collector

• whenever you stop on one of the Income spots, you can choose between using the spot's effect or discarding any number of cards from your hand

Please share your feedback!

Holy_Grailet 24.01.2020 12:00 PM GMT 27.01.2020 12:00 PM GMT Holy_Grailet

AMSTERDAM

We released Gremlins, Inc. on Steam in late 2015 and every year since then, the game has been performing better than before. If you told us that things would work this way back in 2015, we would have found this hard to believe. But here we are with another record-setting year thanks to dedicated players who come from all over the world! Some companies measure their products by revenue. We measure our games by how much time people spend playing them, and by this measure last year saw more players play more sessions in Gremlins, Inc. than in any year before. We dont think that we are creative geniuses, or that Gremlins, Inc. is a divine masterpiece. Rather, we think that the continued growth of the game is the collective result of these simple policies that we follow:

• We continue to support the game with new content (including new cards)
• We continue to organize regular official tournaments
• In ranked sessions, we enforce the Fair Play Rules and review every protest

Happy Lunar New Year!

Game Update

Changes on playing fields

Updated timers

GMT on both server clusters

New cards

THE COMMON FUND

SLOW MOVING VEHICLE

New items

• New main menu background The Jet Rat. "Lunar New Year" set.
• New music Melody of the Jet Rat. "Lunar New Year" set.
• New lobby icon Steel Rat. "Lunar New Year" set.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the "Judgement Day" card, where if a player was teleported from the Astral or from the Plant, that player was forced to skip an extra turn at the Court. [notebook Mr Burnham]
• Fixed an issue with the [spoiler]"Lucky Devil"[/spoiler] achievement which was possible to get in the Bank by playing "Eternal Mortgage" in combination with "A Lucky Potion" (it is a hidden achievent and that was the wrong way to get it). [notebook Doomy]

Known issues

DATA

• Participants: 2,427 unique players participated in the tournament.
• Involvement: 586 players completed all of their sessions on one or both servers. 153 players received the "Facepalm" lobby icon for completing all 14/18 tournament sessions for the first time. 959 players completed more than half of their sessions.
• Sessions played: 4,372 tournament sessions were played in the course of the tournament.
• Average lenght of sessions: Amsterdam (4 players, 30 points) 57 minutes / 49 rounds. Singapore: (2 players, 35 points) 29 minutes / 57 rounds.
• Bans: 19 protests have been investigated, 10 of them supported and 18 players banned for the breach of the Fair Play Rules during this tournament.
• Tournament chests: 6,534 tournament chests were distributed during the tournament (overall, including non-tournament sessions, 14,683 chests were distributed to players in this period).

TOP-20 AMSTERDAM

TOP-20 SINGAPORE

The New Year is near and what is the best way to celebrate it if not with another big tournament! 6 days, an extended prize pool, special prizes for the best players of both servers, modified decks on both servers, more sessions are taken into account... The New Year Tournament is almost here! Please keep in mind that since rating points are frozen during tournaments and the monthly rating reset happens on the 1st day of each month, the December season actually ends a bit earlier, with the beginning of the tournament. Holy_Grailet 27.12.2019 12:00 PM GMT 02.01.2020 12:00 PM GMT Holy_Grailet AMSTERDAM cards Players: 4 score Victory: 30 points cursecard Chaos Cards: allowed health_powerup Character Abilities: allowed telegram Impending Misfortune: visible cheatdice Characters: from random set RatsClock Timer: normal Location Field: Clockwork Colony Special Rules: the deck is modified! +1 Ancient Scriptures +1 Business Development +1 Clearance! +1 Contraband +1 Custom Order +1 Forbidden Knowledge +1 An Inspection +2 An Interesting Find +1 Investigation +1 An Honest Exchange +1 Operation Cleanup +1 Personal Search +2 Second-hand +1 A Snitch +1 An Unmasking +1 A Well-Deserved Holiday -1 Impeachment! -1 A Compromising Document -1 Coup d'etat Tournament points (place in session/points gained): [olist]

0 tournament points [/olist] votes RULES: Sessions that count towards the tournament: Amsterdam: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (14) Singapore: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (18) For each win, players receive additional points that depend on the strength of the opponents over whom they have won. Important: your tournament points will continue to increase with the increase in the tournament score of your past opponents, over whom you prevailed even if you already have reached the limit of sessions for the tournament. What this means is that the tournament is never over for you as long as your previously conquered opponents continue to play, and win. During this tournament, regular rating points will be frozen for all the players. Your tournament sessions will NOT affect your regular rating. Players get tournament points for the first 14/18 (depending on server) sessions played in the tournament on each of the servers. Any subsequent sessions won't give any tournament points, and won't increase the number of defeated opponents who give additional points. Nonetheless, victories of all opponents who were defeated in the first 14/18 sessions will affect your final tournament rating.

PRIZE FUND:

Awarded: Top 20 players on each of the servers. In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all tournament sessions receives a special bonus player icon Facepalm (only if it has not been received before)!
hypnoheart Special prize: the top-3 players on each of the servers will receive by registered mail a set of 4 hard enamel pins "Gremlins, Inc.". The pins will be mailed to the winners as a registered letter to any country in the world, provided that we receive the mailing address within 72 hours after the announcement of the tournament's results.
Place / Prize [olist]

Holy_Grailet x3, flake x3. [/olist] Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) flake = Winter Chest (limited, Winter Season only) In the case when at the end of the tournament two or more players will have equal number of tournament points, they will share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. However, the award list will not be extended, and we will still award only the top 20 players on each server.

TOURNAMENT CHESTS FAQ:

Q. Where do Tournament Chests drop? A. Only in tournament sessions, which are available via Multiplayer Lobby. Q. If I've finished all my tournament sessions, can I get more tournament chests? A. Yes, as long as you will keep playing tournament sessions. Q. Are the tournament items limited to this tournament only, or to tournaments in general? A. The tournament items are available via tournament chests, which drop during every official tournament in the game. Q. Is there a full list of tournament items available via tournament chests? A. Yes, please see below:

• Message No need to thank me. (uncommon)
• Message Nothing personal. (uncommon)
• Emoticon Winner (uncommon)
• Emoticon Thief (uncommon)
• Lobby icon Darbl fon Murblenton (rare)
• Player profile Trophy shelf (rare)
• Main menu background The Champion (rare)
• Governor frame The Governor of Governors (contraband)
• Blueprint Blueprint: "The Ruffian" (contraband)
• Special item Bomb-o-mat (contraband)
• Token trail Champion's trail (illegal)

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[ 2019-12-25 12:17:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

In just a few weeks, we'll celebrate the Lunar New Year. We currently work on adding 2 new cards to the game, and here's a preview of how they would work

THE COMMON FUND

SLOW MOVING VEHICLE

Dear community: It's been a few years since we set up the Asian server cluster in Singapore, and things worked pretty for us there. But time flies, things change, and during the last week our old reliable server in Singapore has experienced 3 crashes due to failures in hardware. During the night of Friday to Saturday, we made the decision to upgrade the server and move it to a new, moder machine. It seems like everything is now fine with one exception: the data link between China and Singapore for the new server reports too many data packet loss instances for certain Chinese providers. We had the same issue with the old server in 2016, and we fixed it then. We are now looking into the way of fixing this at the new server as well. We apologise for inconvenience to those of you who currently experience delays in connecting to the Singapore server. Please know that we care, and that we will not stop working on this until we fix this. We wish that we could have planned it, but the little monsters that decided to crash the old server gave us no warning about the change. If you have any problems with the conneciton to the Singapore server, please leave us a note on Discord or on Steam forums. We will look into each issue. Because the loading may be unreliable for some users, you may also experience delay in loading your inventory. Nothing is lost on our server. The delay is just due to connectivity issues. We will update this message once the issue has been resolved. We thank every player who reached out to us with description of their issues, because this allowed us to understand the scope of the issue. Thank you, and we apologise one more time for this temporary inconvenience.

Today's Deal: Save 75% on Gremlins, Inc.!*

Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!

*Offer ends Tuesday at 10AM Pacific Time

A special Halloween event! Log into the game on November 1 (between 00:00 GMT and 24:00 GMT), and get these in-game items for free

• Dead Gremlin (Emoticon, uncommon)
• Spooky Laugh (Emoticon, uncommon)
• The Abandoned Clockwork Town (Main menu background, uncommon)
• The Abandoned Clockwork Town (Music track, uncommon)
• Rusty Clockwork (Main menu background, uncommon)
• Rusty Melody (Music track, uncommon)

• Pumpkin-head (Lobby icon, rare)
• Rise of the Automata (Global effect, rare)
• The Sentient Machine (Profile background, rare)

• Pumpkin-o-Mat (Special item: Misfortune delivery, contraband)

Holy_Grailet 18.10.2019 12:00 PM GMT 21.10.2019 12:00 PM GMT Holy_Grailet AMSTERDAM cards Players: 4 score Victory: 30 points cursecard Chaos Cards: allowed health_powerup Character Abilities: allowed telegram Impending Misfortune: visible cheatdice Characters: from random set RatsClock Timer: normal Location Field: Clockwork Colony Special Rules: the deck is modified! All of the following cards are completely removed from the deck:

• Advocating Rebellion
• Contraband
• Coup d'etat
• A Deal with the Prosecution
• False Testimony
• Fast & Fair
• Investigation
• Jailbreak
• Judgement Day
• The Jumponator
• The Lesser Evil
• Misappropriation
• The Police Dirigible
• A Prank
• Properly Placed Bribe
• A Secret Passage
• A Somersault
• The Stash
• Visiting the Voters
• A well-deserved Holiday

• Advocating Rebellion
• Contraband
• Coup d'etat
• A Deal with the Prosecution
• False Testimony
• Fast & Fair
• A Fraudulent Transaction
• Investigation
• Jailbreak
• Judgement Day
• The Jumponator
• The Lesser Evil
• Misappropriation
• The Police Dirigible
• A Prank
• Properly Placed Bribe
• A Quest from Adrageron
• A Secret Passage
• Slander
• A Somersault
• The Stash
• Visiting the Voters
• A Voodoo Doll
• A well-deserved Holiday

PRIZE FUND:

Holy_Grailet 5, pumpking 7, Bomb-o-mat, A Contraband Box of Goods x 3

Today we released the Summer Update for Gremlins, Inc. which includes new cards and quality-of-life changes (including support of higher screen resolutions). Below is the list of changes:

A. NEW FEATURES

• Support for higher screen resolutions

• Visual notification of a new session

• Highest and lowest results of the end game stats are now highlighted

B. NEW CONTENT

E. FIXES

• The characters order at the character stats screen in the player profile now remains the same when the stats for different playing fields are shown.
• Fixed a wrong tooltip at the character stats screen in the player profile.
• Fixed an error where in some cases spectators could see an unnecessary for them slider on the screens where players make bids.

F. KNOWN ISSUES

The tournament is over and as always we would like to share with you some additional data as well as the list of the winners fireapple

DATA

• Participants: 1,241 unique players participated in the tournament.
• Involvement: 232 players completed 8 or more sessions. 114 players received the "Facepalm" lobby icon for completing all 8 tournament sessions for the first time. 392 players completed more than half (5+) of their sessions.
• Sessions played: 1,659 tournament sessions were played in the course of the tournament.
• Average lenght of sessions: Amsterdam (3 players, 30 points) 40 minutes / 47 rounds. Singapore: (3 players, 30 points) 41 minutes / 50 rounds.
• Bans: 3 protest have been investigated and 0 players banned for the breach of the Fair Play Rules during this tournament.
• Tournament chests: 2,183 tournament chests were distributed during the tournament (overall, including non-tournament sessions, 4,201 chests were distributed to players in this period).

TOP-10 AMSTERDAM

TOP-10 SINGAPORE

Nearly four years ago, we launched Gremlins, Inc. in Early Access on Steam. Gremlins, Inc. is a premium (that is, not free-to-play) digital boardgame that requires its players to be crazy smart about combining dozens of available strategies in order to prevail not the easiest concept to sell, if you ask around. And yet as of today, theres 516,068 players who own Gremlins, Inc. on Steam coming from over a hundred of different countries!

OUR AUDIENCE

OUR APPROACH TO NEW CONTENT

NUMBER OF PLAYERS ONLINE

WHATS IN THE FUTURE FOR GREMLINS, INC.

COMMUNITY

WHATS IN THE FUTURE FOR OUR STUDIO

Holy_Grailet 09.08.2019 12:00 PM GMT 12.08.2019 12:00 PM GMT Holy_Grailet steampunk AMSTERDAM, SINGAPORE cards players: 3 score victory condition: 30 points cursecard Chaos Cards: allowed health_powerup Character Abilities: allowed telegram Impending Misfortune: visible cheatdice Characters: from random set RatsClock Timer: normal Location Field: Clockwork town Tournament points (place in session/points gained): [olist]

0 tournament points [/olist] * Special rules: Each player starts with an active Ancient Detail. Changes in the deck: cards -3 Ancient Detail cards +1 The Runner Bomb cards +1 A Confiscation cards +1 A Tribute to Chaos cards +1 The Counterfeit votes RULES: Sessions that count towards the tournament: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (8) For each win, players receive additional points that depend on the strength of the opponents over whom they have won. Important: your tournament points will continue to increase with the increase in the tournament score of your past opponents, over whom you prevailed even if you already have reached the limit of sessions for the tournament. What this means is that the tournament is never over for you as long as your previously conquered opponents continue to play, and win. During this tournament, regular rating points will be frozen for all the players. Your tournament sessions will NOT affect your regular rating. Players get tournament points for the first 8 sessions played in the tournament on each of the servers. Any subsequent sessions won't give any tournament points, and won't increase the number of defeated opponents who give additional points. Nonetheless, victories of all opponents who were defeated in the first 8 sessions will affect your final tournament rating.

PRIZE FUND:

Awarded: Top 10 players on each of the servers. In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all 8 tournament sessions receives a special bonus player icon Facepalm (only if it has not been received before)! [quote]
[/quote] Place / Prize [olist]

Holy_Grailet 5, sunnyemo 7, Bomb-o-mat, A Contraband Box of Goods x 3

Holy_Grailet 1, sunnyemo 3 [/olist] Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) sunnyemo = Summer Chest (limited, Summer Season only) In the case when at the end of the tournament two or more players will have equal number of tournament points, they will share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. However, the award list will not be extended, and we will still award only the top 10 players on each server.

TOURNAMENT CHESTS FAQ:

Q. Where do Tournament Chests drop? A. Only in tournament sessions, which are available via Multiplayer Lobby. Q. If I've finished all my tournament sessions, can I get more tournament chests? A. Yes, as long as you will keep playing tournament sessions. Q. Are the tournament items limited to this tournament only, or to tournaments in general? A. The tournament items are available via tournament chests, which drop during every official tournament in the game. Q. Is there a full list of tournament items available via tournament chests? A. Yes, please see below:

• Message No need to thank me. (uncommon)
• Message Nothing personal. (uncommon)
• Emoticon Winner (uncommon)
• Emoticon Thief (uncommon)
• Lobby icon Darbl fon Murblenton (rare)
• Player profile Trophy shelf (rare)
• Main menu background The Champion (rare)
• Governor frame The Governor of Governors (contraband)
• Blueprint Blueprint: "The Ruffian" (contraband)
• Special item Bomb-o-mat (contraband)
• Token trail Champion's trail (illegal)

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[ 2019-07-31 12:09:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

The tournament is over and as always we would like to share with you some additional data as well as the list of the winners fireapple

DATA

• Participants: 1,025 unique players participated in the tournament.
• Involvement: 202 players completed 8 or more sessions. 83 players received the "Facepalm" lobby icon for completing all 8 tournament sessions for the first time. 335 players completed more than half (5+) of their sessions.
• Sessions played: 1,468 tournament sessions were played in the course of the tournament.
• Average lenght of sessions: Amsterdam (4 players, 25 points) 44 minutes / 41 rounds. Singapore: (2 players, 35 points) 24 minutes / 54 rounds.
• Bans: 2 players have been banned for the breach of the Fair Play Rules during this tournament.
• Tournament chests: 2,014 tournament chests were distributed during the tournament (overall, including non-tournament sessions, 3,301 chests were distributed to players in this period).

TOP-10 AMSTERDAM

TOP-10 SINGAPORE

Holy_Grailet 12.07.2019 12:00 PM GMT 15.07.2019 12:00 PM GMT Holy_Grailet steampunk AMSTERDAM cards players: 4 score victory condition: 25 points cursecard Chaos Cards: not allowed health_powerup Character Abilities: allowed telegram Impending Misfortune: not visible cheatdice Characters: from random set RatsClock Timer: normal Location Field: Clockwork colony Tournament points (place in session/points gained): [olist]

0 tournament points [/olist] * Special rules: The following cards are removed from the deck: cards "Devil's Due" cards "An Award Ceremony" cards "False Testimony" cards "An Honest Exchange" cards x1 "A Set-up" cards "Undercutting the Competition" cards "The Accelerator" votes RULES: Sessions that count towards the tournament: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (8) For each win, players receive additional points that depend on the strength of the opponents over whom they have won. Important: your tournament points will continue to increase with the increase in the tournament score of your past opponents, over whom you prevailed even if you already have reached the limit of sessions for the tournament. What this means is that the tournament is never over for you as long as your previously conquered opponents continue to play, and win. During this tournament, regular rating points will be frozen for all the players. Your tournament sessions will NOT affect your regular rating. Players get tournament points for the first 8 sessions played in the tournament on each of the servers. Any subsequent sessions won't give any tournament points, and won't increase the number of defeated opponents who give additional points. Nonetheless, victories of all opponents who were defeated in the first 8 sessions will affect your final tournament rating.

PRIZE FUND:

Awarded: Top 10 players on each of the servers. In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all 8 tournament sessions receives a special bonus player icon Facepalm (only if it has not been received before)! [quote]
[/quote] Place / Prize [olist]

Holy_Grailet 5, sunnyemo 7, Bomb-o-mat, A Contraband Box of Goods x 3

Holy_Grailet 1, sunnyemo 3 [/olist] Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) sunnyemo = Summer Chest (limited, Summer Season only) In the case when at the end of the tournament two or more players will have equal number of tournament points, they will share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. However, the award list will not be extended, and we will still award only the top 10 players on each server.

TOURNAMENT CHESTS FAQ:

Q. Where do Tournament Chests drop? A. Only in tournament sessions, which are available via Multiplayer Lobby. Q. If I've finished all my tournament sessions, can I get more tournament chests? A. Yes, as long as you will keep playing tournament sessions. Q. Are the tournament items limited to this tournament only, or to tournaments in general? A. The tournament items are available via tournament chests, which drop during every official tournament in the game. Q. Is there a full list of tournament items available via tournament chests? A. Yes, please see below:

• Message No need to thank me. (uncommon)
• Message Nothing personal. (uncommon)
• Emoticon Winner (uncommon)
• Emoticon Thief (uncommon)
• Lobby icon Darbl fon Murblenton (rare)
• Player profile Trophy shelf (rare)
• Main menu background The Champion (rare)
• Governor frame The Governor of Governors (contraband)
• Blueprint Blueprint: "The Ruffian" (contraband)
• Special item Bomb-o-mat (contraband)
• Token trail Champion's trail (illegal)

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[ 2019-07-10 08:01:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

The tournament is over and as always we would like to share with you some additional data as well as the list of the winners fireapple

DATA

• Participants: 1,023 unique players participated in the tournament.
• Involvement: 217 players completed 8 or more sessions. 103 players received the "Facepalm" lobby icon for completing all 8 tournament sessions for the first time. 361 players completed more than half (5+) of their sessions.
• Sessions played: 1,491 tournament sessions were played in the course of the tournament.
• Average lenght of sessions: Amsterdam (3 players, 30 points) 37 minutes / 47 rounds. Singapore: (3 players, 30 points) 37 minutes / 48 rounds.
• Bans: 8 players have been banned for the breach of the Fair Play Rules during this tournament.
• Tournament chests: 2,179 tournament chests were distributed during the tournament (overall, including non-tournament sessions, 3,459 chests were distributed to players in this period).

TOP-10 AMSTERDAM

TOP-10 SINGAPORE

Holy_Grailet 21.06.2019 12:00 PM GMT 24.06.2019 12:00 PM GMT Holy_Grailet steampunk AMSTERDAM, SINGAPORE cards players: 3 score victory condition: 30 points cursecard Chaos Cards: allowed health_powerup Character Abilities: allowed telegram Impending Misfortune: visible cheatdice Characters: from random set RatsClock Timer: normal Location Field: Clockwork town Tournament points (place in session/points gained): [olist]

0 tournament points [/olist] * Special rules: Each player starts with an active Ancient Detail. Changes in the deck: cards -3 Ancient Detail cards +1 The Runner Bomb cards +1 A Confiscation cards +1 A Tribute to Chaos cards +1 The Counterfeit votes RULES: Sessions that count towards the tournament: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (8) For each win, players receive additional points that depend on the strength of the opponents over whom they have won. Important: your tournament points will continue to increase with the increase in the tournament score of your past opponents, over whom you prevailed even if you already have reached the limit of sessions for the tournament. What this means is that the tournament is never over for you as long as your previously conquered opponents continue to play, and win. During this tournament, regular rating points will be frozen for all the players. Your tournament sessions will NOT affect your regular rating. Players get tournament points for the first 8 sessions played in the tournament on each of the servers. Any subsequent sessions won't give any tournament points, and won't increase the number of defeated opponents who give additional points. Nonetheless, victories of all opponents who were defeated in the first 8 sessions will affect your final tournament rating.

PRIZE FUND:

Awarded: Top 10 players on each of the servers. In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all 8 tournament sessions receives a special bonus player icon Facepalm (only if it has not been received before)! [quote]
[/quote] Place / Prize [olist]

Holy_Grailet 5, sunnyemo 7, Bomb-o-mat, A Contraband Box of Goods x 3

Holy_Grailet 1, sunnyemo 3 [/olist] Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) sunnyemo = Summer Chest (limited, Summer Season only) In the case when at the end of the tournament two or more players will have equal number of tournament points, they will share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. However, the award list will not be extended, and we will still award only the top 10 players on each server.

TOURNAMENT CHESTS FAQ:

Q. Where do Tournament Chests drop? A. Only in tournament sessions, which are available via Multiplayer Lobby. Q. If I've finished all my tournament sessions, can I get more tournament chests? A. Yes, as long as you will keep playing tournament sessions. Q. Are the tournament items limited to this tournament only, or to tournaments in general? A. The tournament items are available via tournament chests, which drop during every official tournament in the game. Q. Is there a full list of tournament items available via tournament chests? A. Yes, please see below:

• Message No need to thank me. (uncommon)
• Message Nothing personal. (uncommon)
• Emoticon Winner (uncommon)
• Emoticon Thief (uncommon)
• Lobby icon Darbl fon Murblenton (rare)
• Player profile Trophy shelf (rare)
• Main menu background The Champion (rare)
• Governor frame The Governor of Governors (contraband)
• Blueprint Blueprint: "The Ruffian" (contraband)
• Special item Bomb-o-mat (contraband)
• Token trail Champion's trail (illegal)

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[ 2019-06-18 10:16:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Today we released the Spring Season Update for Gremlins, Inc. which includes 2 new cards, a new section in players' profiles with additional statistical data, and a useful quality of life improvement related to in-game bets.

A. NEW FEATURES

• Additional stats in profiles

• On-screen buttons for bets

B. NEW CONTENT

E. FIXES

• Fixed the issue where the list of mods in Workshop wouldn't load for some players.

F. KNOWN ISSUES

It is time to share the details of the second card that will be added to to the game with the upcoming Spring Season Update for Gremlins, Inc. (which is much closer than you might think ;) )!

FORTUNE

We're excited to share that Gremlins, Inc. will soon receive 2 new cards for the main deck, as a part of the upcoming Spring Season Update. The details of the first of these new cards are as follows:

ETERNAL MORTGAGE

The community team tournament "Cooperating Capitalists" is over and we would like to summarize the results. 32 teams participated in the tournament, gathering 64 players from 11 countries:










Despite the high number of teams, the cooperative attitude of all the participants allowed us to complete the whole event in just 2 weekends during which 32 tournament sessions were played. It's worth noticing that the competing teams were not just responsible, but also friendly to each other and ready to sacrifice their own comfort in favour of that of their opponents. To satisfy the needs of some teams, several sessions were moved to different starting times or even to another server. Overall, the tournament had no significant delays and not a single session was canceled! Without a doubt, the organizers of this team tournament deserve a special mention:
extenion,
jack_was,
Meowth,
Impsuley,
Standard of Ur &
winter1703. Without them, this event wouldn't have happen! FULL LIST OF TEAMS WHO COMPETED: [olist]

Watchdogs of Farron

What IF?

Attack the leader

Fashionable pear

Kaxet

Assassins of Topdeckers

Tricksters

Clockwork-town retrogrades

team of dog

BLACK MOON

team NF

Emerging Oligarch

cidanzi

OHAGI

Assault and Battery

Recursion

Just4lulz

The Clockwork Mischief's

IlBur

Double W

Swindlers

love revenge

May there be CHAOS!

ANIKI

rookie

A Terrible Accident

Greedy Gremlins

meme-police

The Dudes

Ze!

The Krits

loli team [/olist] The first round was played on March 30 and immediately presented a few unexpected results:

• out of 22 players from Russia, only 8 remained in the tournament after the first round;
• out of 7 teams from China, 4 of which were predicted to leave the tournament right away, only 1 team actually lost;
• despite the predictions, the Lithuanian team
  The Dudes and team
  
  The Krits, which united players from the UK and Portugal, were able to make it to the second round.

The second round was played on March 31 and ended with a single huge surprise:

• team
  
  The Krits won again, in a session against team
  OHAGI, although according to the preliminary predictions on Discord, its chances to lose were 23:2. After that victory, no Japanese teams remained in the tournament.

Below you can find the links to the recordings of a few tournament sessions that were played during rounds 1 and 2: Session 5 - May there be CHAOS! (blue) vs Greedy Gremlins (red) Session 15 - A Terrible Accident (blue) vs team NF (red) Session 9 - love revenge (blue) vs Kaxet (red) Session 2 - Assassins of Topdeckers (blue) vs Ze! (red) Session 24 - team NF (red) vs Fashionable pear (blue) The third round that was played on April 6, brought more surprises:

• an experienced team
  
  Assassins of Topdeckers wasn't able, despite all expectancies, to defeat the team
  BLACK MOON;
• 
  May there be CHAOS! lost to
  cidanzi, although predictions were on the CHAOS's side;
• 
  Team NF after two convincing victories in the first two rounds, lost to its compatriots from
  team of dog;
• 
  
  The Krits who finally got the predictions on its side, lost to the team
  love revenge.

At the fourth round, only teams from China remained in the tournament but surprises kept coming:

• 
  cidanzi has won in the session against
  BLACK MOON although predictions were 8:3 against it;
• similar situation happened with
  team of dog which has won in the session against
  love revenge while predictions were 7:3 against it.

Only the finals of the tournament, that happened on April 7, were played accordingly to expectations:
love revenge has defeated
BLACK MOON in the session for the third place, and
cidanzi has won the title of the champion with two victories in a row in the final series against
team of dog. Below you can find the links to the recordings of a few tournament sessions that were played on April 6-7 (including finals): Session 26 - May there be CHAOS! (red) vs cidanzi (blue) Session 27 - love revenge (blue) vs The Krits (red) Session 28 - team of dog (blue) vs team NF (red) Final 1/3 - cidanzi (blue) vs team of dog (red) Final 2/3 - cidanzi (blue) vs team of dog (red) All tournament results and the full tournament ladder can be found through this link!

PRIZES:

1) First place: Team:
cidanzi Players

Each player gets a set of hard enamel pins from Gremlins, Inc. + 25 Steam Gift Card 2) Second place: Team:
team of dog Players

Each player gets 3 Illegal Boxes of goods + 10 Steam Gift Card 3) Third place: Team:
love revenge Players

Each player gets 5 Contraband Boxes of goods 4) Fourth place: Team:
BLACK MOON Players

Each player gets 5 Rare Boxes boxes of goods

SPECIAL PRIZES:

* Fastest Victory (by rounds): 33 rounds. Teams
team NF and
May there be CHAOS! Each player gets 1 Illegal, 1 Contraband, 1 Rare Box of goods * Biggest Score (individual): 35 points. MrBrightside from
Watchdogs of Farron and Privet20 from
May there be CHAOS! Each player gets 1 Illegal, 1 Contraband, 1 Rare Box of goods * Biggest Score (team): 59 points. Team:
cidanzi Each player gets 1 Illegal, 1 Contraband, 1 Rare Box of goods

INTERVIEW WITH THE CHAMPION

jack_was, one of the organizers of the tournament, took a brief interview with the captain of
cidanzi which you can find below: jack_was: For how long do you play the game? : I have played for 512 hours, my teammate has played for 690 hours. jack_was: How did you like "Cooperating Capitalists" tournament? : It was my first time joining an official team play tournament. I like to play with my friend and win together. jack_was: What rules did you like and which ones would you like to be adjusted? : I think the rules are fair enough. Maybe the "random character" rule will make me play a character which I don't like to use but some characters will be too strong if they are in the same team like the Damned and the Pauper. jack_was: Which session was the greatest challenge for your team and why? : every team was a challenge but if I had to choose, I think it would be session 26 against May there be CHAOS! (Privet20, Kieli). the Banker got 106 income at the 14th turn. The Pauper got The Accelerator at the 17th turn. fn: this session was recorded and you can watch it here. jack_was: There were 5 teams representing China in quarter-finals and you allowed no other countries to enter semi-finals. Is there any simple explanation? : the winner needs both luck and skill nothing else can be said here. It's a rare situation that happened this time, and you probably won't see this happening in the next tournament. Also, I don't have permission to "allow" anyone to enter semi-finals or something. To enter the semi-finals you just need skill and luck.

FROM DEVELOPERS

Once again we would like to express our gratitude to everyone who organized and conducted this tournament as well as to all the teams who participated (and those who were ready to participate but didn't get a chance even after the brackets were expanded from 16 to 32 teams). This was an amazing experience and we followed the course of the tournament with great interest making our own predictions. We will discuss possible ways to make such tournaments more regular, where the qualifying round to them will be the position of the players on the ranked ladder at the end of a season. Thank you, everyone, for playing our game and finding more and more ways to play it differently! ______
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[ 2019-04-11 12:07:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

During the first and second rounds of the team play tournament we have streamed and recorded some of the sessions that were played. In case, if you missed the stream or spectated other sessions directly from the game, below you can find the recordings:

Session 5 - May there be CHAOS! (blue) vs Greedy Gremlins (red)

Session 15 - A Terrible Accident (blue) vs team NF (red)

Session 9 - love revenge (blue) vs Kaxet (red)

Session 2 - Assassins of Topdeckers (blue) vs Ze! (red)

Session 24 - team NF (red) vs Fashionable pear (blue)

The registration to "COOPERATING CAPITALISTS!" is over. So many teams wanted to participate in the event that the tournament has been expanded to 32 teams instead of 16! The schedule for the tournament together with the teams seeding can be found through this link. The first round of the tournament begins tomorrow! You will be able to spectate the tournament sessions directly from the game or on the stream on the game's main page. Good luck to the teams and let the strongest and the luckiest team wins! --- Current results: firstplace

May there be CHAOS! vs

Greedy Gremlins: 27 - 31 vs 3 - 22 (62 rounds).

The tournament is over and as always we would like to share with you some additional data as well as the list of the winners fireapple

DATA

• Participants: 2,120 unique players participated in the tournament.
• Involvement: 541 players completed 8 or more sessions. 320 players received the "Facepalm" lobby icon for completing all 8 tournament sessions for the first time. 824 players completed more than half (5+) of their sessions.
• Sessions played: 3,996 tournament sessions were played in the course of the tournament.
• Average lenght of sessions: Amsterdam (3 players, 25 points) 34 minutes / 40 rounds. Singapore: (2 players, 35 points) 30 minutes / 54 rounds.
• Bans: 2 players have been banned for the breach of the Fair Play Rules during this tournament.
• Tournament chests: 3,753 tournament chests were distributed during the tournament (overall, including non-tournament sessions, 10,646 chests were distributed to players in this period). hypnoheart Special prizes: all winners from top 10 of each server, Amsterdam and Singapore, receive the new track: Melody of the Mechanical Troika! hypnoheart Top 3 players on each of the servers, Amsterdam and Singapore, receive by registered mail a set of 4 hard enamel pins "Gremlins, Inc.". The pins will be mailed to the winners as a registered letter to any country in the world, provided that we receive the mailing address within 72 hours after the announcement of the tournament's results. [quote]
  [/quote]

  TOP-10 AMSTERDAM

  
  1,419 participants 01. starsandstripes JohnGalt (1264) 8 sessions, 8 victories. firstplace Holy_Grailet x5, :greengemstone x7, Bomb-o-mat, A Contraband Box of Goods x3 02. flagukraine 4nsZei (1232) 8 sessions, 8 victories. Holy_Grailet 4, greengemstone x7, A Contraband Box of Goods x2 03. RUSflag VartLoccur (1191) 8 sessions, 7 victories. Holy_Grailet x4, greengemstone x6, A Contraband Box of Goods 04. Questions redfish (1179) 8 sessions, 7 victories. Holy_Grailet x3, greengemstone x6 05. RUSflag KoliaN (1163) 8 sessions, 7 victories. Holy_Grailet x3, greengemstone x6 06. TH Miskabacsi (1133) 8 sessions, 7 victories. Holy_Grailet x3, greengemstone x6 07. RUSflag ohlokrat (1121) 8 sessions, 7 victories. Holy_Grailet x2, greengemstone x5 08. RUSflag Fellow (1082) 8 sessions, 6 victories. Holy_Grailet x2, greengemstone x4 09. Questions Vassago (1038) 8 sessions, 6 victories. Holy_Grailet x1, greengemstone x3 09. Questions Fantozzi (1038) 8 sessions, 6 victories. Holy_Grailet x1, greengemstone x3

  TOP-10 SINGAPORE

  
  701 participants 01. china Night flash (750) 8 sessions, 8 victories. firstplace Holy_Grailet x5, greengemstone x7, Bomb-o-mat, A Contraband Box of Goods x 3 02. RUSflag ohlokrat (642) 8 sessions, 8 victories. Holy_Grailet x4, greengemstone x7, A Contraband Box of Goods x 2 03. china (636) 8 sessions, 8 victories. Holy_Grailet x4, greengemstone x6, A Contraband Box of Goods 04. china (618) 8 sessions, 7 victories. Holy_Grailet x4, greengemstone x6 05. Questions chance2015 (606) 8 sessions, 7 victories. Holy_Grailet x3, greengemstone x6 06. china (600) 8 sessions, 7 victories. Holy_Grailet x3, greengemstone x6 06. Questions herrmann (600) 8 sessions, 7 victories. Holy_Grailet x3, greengemstone x6 06. china ice cream (600) 8 sessions, 6 victories. Holy_Grailet x3, greengemstone x6 09. Questions Kyo (576) 8 sessions, 7 victories. Holy_Grailet x2, greengemstone x4 09. china Jianrry (576) 8 sessions, 7 victories. Holy_Grailet x2, greengemstone x4 Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) greengemstone = Spring Chest (limited, Spring Season only) * the number of sessions played shows only the sessions that were played while they had impact on the overall tournament score of that player. ** if two or more players have equal number of tournament points, they share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. We congratulate the winners and wish good luck to everyone in future events! Thank you for being such an awesome community! votes ______
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  [ 2019-03-21 10:50:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

We continue to celebrate the third anniversary of having Gremlins, Inc. released on Steam: to mark the occasion, from March 16 through March 25 all of the DLCs for Gremlins, Inc. are on a 50% sale!

Holy_Grailet 15.03.2019 12:00 PM GMT 18.03.2019 12:00 PM GMT Holy_Grailet steampunk AMSTERDAM cards players: 3 score victory condition: 25 points cursecard Chaos Cards: allowed health_powerup Character Abilities: allowed telegram Impending Misfortune: visible cheatdice Characters: from random set RatsClock Timer: normal Location Field: Clockwork town Tournament points (place in session/points gained): [olist]

0 tournament points [/olist] * Special rules: The following cards are removed from the deck: cards "Devil's Due" cards "An Award Ceremony" cards "False Testimony" cards "An Honest Exchange" cards x1 "A Set-up" cards "Undercutting the Competition" cards "The Accelerator" votes RULES: Sessions that count towards the tournament: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (8) For each win, players receive additional points that depend on the strength of the opponents over whom they have won. Important: your tournament points will continue to increase with the increase in the tournament score of your past opponents, over whom you prevailed even if you already have reached the limit of sessions for the tournament. What this means is that the tournament is never over for you as long as your previously conquered opponents continue to play, and win. During this tournament, regular rating points will be frozen for all the players. Your tournament sessions will NOT affect your regular rating. Players get tournament points for the first 8 sessions played in the tournament on each of the servers. Any subsequent sessions won't give any tournament points, and won't increase the number of defeated opponents who give additional points. Nonetheless, victories of all opponents who were defeated in the first 8 sessions will affect your final tournament rating.

PRIZE FUND:

Awarded: Top 10 players on each of the servers. In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all 8 tournament sessions receives a special bonus player icon Facepalm (only if it has not been received before)! [quote]
[/quote] hypnoheart Special prizes: all winners from top 10 of each server, Amsterdam and Singapore, will receive the new the new track: Melody of the Mechanical Troika! hypnoheart Top 3 players on each of the servers, Amsterdam and Singapore, will receive by registered mail a set of 4 hard enamel pins "Gremlins, Inc.". The pins will be mailed to the winners as a registered letter to any country in the world, provided that we receive the mailing address within 72 hours after the announcement of the tournament's results. [quote]
[/quote] Place / Prize [olist]

Holy_Grailet 5, greengemstone 7, Bomb-o-mat, A Contraband Box of Goods x 3

Holy_Grailet 1, greengemstone 3 [/olist] Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) greengemstone = Spring Chest (limited, Spring Season only) In the case when at the end of the tournament two or more players will have equal number of tournament points, they will share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. However, the award list will not be extended, and we will still award only the top 10 players on each server.

TOURNAMENT CHESTS FAQ:

Q. Where do Tournament Chests drop? A. Only in tournament sessions, which are available via Multiplayer Lobby. Q. If I've finished all my tournament sessions, can I get more tournament chests? A. Yes, as long as you will keep playing tournament sessions. Q. Are the tournament items limited to this tournament only, or to tournaments in general? A. The tournament items are available via tournament chests, which drop during every official tournament in the game. Q. Is there a full list of tournament items available via tournament chests? A. Yes, please see below:

• Message No need to thank me. (uncommon)
• Message Nothing personal. (uncommon)
• Emoticon Winner (uncommon)
• Emoticon Thief (uncommon)
• Lobby icon Darbl fon Murblenton (rare)
• Player profile Trophy shelf (rare)
• Main menu background The Champion (rare)
• Governor frame The Governor of Governors (contraband)
• Blueprint Blueprint: "The Ruffian" (contraband)
• Special item Bomb-o-mat (contraband)
• Token trail Champion's trail (illegal)

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[ 2019-03-12 15:30:54 CET ] [ Original post ]

Today's Deal: Save 75% on Gremlins, Inc.!*

Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!

*Offer ends Wednesday at 10AM Pacific Time

Today marks the third anniversary of Gremlins, Inc. on Steam. In that time, we released almost one hundred updates with new features and new content, and ran dozens of tournaments. Its been a great adventure! Wed like to thank the international community of players, who come from over 100 countries, for the continued feedback and suggestions. Your support is the reason why we keep improving this game month after month! What started as a niche board game became a club with its own weekly discussions and community tournaments, while the games official multilingual Discord server became our true family. Over the last three years, more than 500,000 people played Gremlins, Inc. on Steam. While were incredibly happy with this achievement already, we plan to continue adding more content and more features to the game, so that one day the population of the Clockwork Town may hit one million users! Thank you for all that happened and we look forward to another great year ahead!
To celebrate the game's third anniversary, we prepared a few gifts: malice A special main menu background "The Mechanical Troika"; malice A special music track "Melody of the Mechanical Troika". Both of these items are be available for everyone for the next month, and also can be received as drops from the free chests.
malice A new player icon "3" with a cool special effect (just click on it); This icon is given away for free to every player who logs into the game at least once during the next week (March 11, 2019 March 18, 2019). After that, it will only be available from "boxes of goods" (that are crafted from free drops).
malice Today, a special medal is released to all the veterans of the game it's called "Veteran" and is issued to every player who first logged into the game on March 11, 2016 or earlier.
Besides that, additional gifts await everyone who visits the game in the next few days those who log into the game in the specific day listed below, receive one free item to keep. March 11, 2019 The new main menu background "The Mechanical Troika" March 12, 2019 The Miraculous Magnet of Dr. Brooms March 13, 2019 The Warping Seeker March 14, 2019 The Automatic Dice-roller March 15, 2019 A Supercup March 16, 2019 A Smart Plug March 17, 2019 An Uncommon Box of Goods ______
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This is just a quick note to say that the third anniversary of Gremlins, Inc. is coming shortly on May 11, 2019 and we're almost done with the special content for the game: there will be a new music track composed by Anna especially for this event, a new main menu background created by Yaroslav to mark the special date, and a new official tournament with some very special prizes. We will also release an update on the geography of current player base to show how different regions discovered this game at different times. See you in a week and a half!

The tournament is over and as always we would like to share with you some additional data as well as the list of the winners fireapple

DATA

• Participants: 1.265 unique players participated in the tournament.
• Involvement: 258 players completed 8 or more sessions. 114 players received the "Facepalm" lobby icon for completing all 8 tournament sessions for the first time. 424 players completed more than half (5+) of their sessions.
• Sessions played: 1.669 tournament sessions were played in the course of the tournament.
• Average lenght of sessions: Amsterdam (4 players) 53 minutes / 47 rounds. Singapore: (2 players) 26 minutes / 52 rounds
• Bans: 8 players have been banned for the breach of the Fair Play Rules during this tournament.
• Tournament chests: 2.629 tournament chests were distributed during the tournament (overall, including non-tournament sessions, 4.440 chests were distributed to players in this period).
• Special prize: all winners from top-10 of each server, Amsterdam and Singapore, receive the new main menu background: The Flying Piglet and the new track: Melody of the Flying Piglet!

TOP-10 AMSTERDAM

TOP-10 SINGAPORE

Holy_Grailet 08.02.2019 12:00 PM GMT 11.02.2019 12:00 PM GMT Holy_Grailet steampunk AMSTERDAM cards players: 4 score victory condition: 30 points cursecard Chaos Cards: allowed health_powerup Character Abilities: allowed telegram Impending Misfortune: visible cheatdice Characters: random RatsClock Timer: normal Location Field: Clockwork colony Tournament points (place in session/points gained): [olist]

0 tournament points [/olist] * Special rules: The following cards are removed from the deck: cards "Devil's Due" cards "Guild Services" cards "An Award Ceremony" cards "False Testimony" cards "An Honest Exchange" cards x1 "A Set-up" cards "A Voodoo Doll" cards "The Accelerator" votes RULES: Sessions that count towards the tournament: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (8) For each win, players receive additional points that depend on the strength of the opponents over whom they have won. Important: your tournament points will continue to increase with the increase in the tournament score of your past opponents, over whom you prevailed even if you already have reached the limit of sessions for the tournament. What this means is that the tournament is never over for you as long as your previously conquered opponents continue to play, and win. During this tournament, regular rating points will be frozen for all the players. Your tournament sessions will NOT affect your regular rating. Players get tournament points for the first 8 sessions played in the tournament on each of the servers. Any subsequent sessions won't give any tournament points, and won't increase the number of defeated opponents who give additional points. Nonetheless, victories of all opponents who were defeated in the first 8 sessions will affect your final tournament rating.

PRIZE FUND:

Awarded: Top 10 players on each of the servers. In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all 8 tournament sessions receives a special bonus player icon Facepalm (only if it has not been received before)! [quote]
[/quote] hypnoheart Special prizes: all winners from top-10 of each server, Amsterdam and Singapore, will receive the new main menu background: The Flying Piglet and the new track: Melody of the Flying Piglet! [quote]
[/quote] Place / Prize [olist]

Holy_Grailet 5, flake 7, Bomb-o-mat, A Contraband Box of Goods x 3

Holy_Grailet 1, flake 3 [/olist] Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) flake = Winter Chest (limited, Winter Season only) In the case when at the end of the tournament two or more players will have equal number of tournament points, they will share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. However, the award list will not be extended, and we will still award only the top 10 players on each server.

TOURNAMENT CHESTS FAQ:

Q. Where do Tournament Chests drop? A. Only in tournament sessions, which are available via Multiplayer Lobby. Q. If I've finished all my tournament sessions, can I get more tournament chests? A. Yes, as long as you will keep playing tournament sessions. Q. Are the tournament items limited to this tournament only, or to tournaments in general? A. The tournament items are available via tournament chests, which drop during every official tournament in the game. Q. Is there a full list of tournament items available via tournament chests? A. Yes, please see below:

• Message No need to thank me. (uncommon)
• Message Nothing personal. (uncommon)
• Emoticon Winner (uncommon)
• Emoticon Thief (uncommon)
• Lobby icon Darbl fon Murblenton (rare)
• Player profile Trophy shelf (rare)
• Main menu background The Champion (rare)
• Governor frame The Governor of Governors (contraband)
• Blueprint Blueprint: "The Ruffian" (contraband)
• Special item Bomb-o-mat (contraband)
• Token trail Champion's trail (illegal)

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[ 2019-02-06 14:01:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

Starting from February 1 we have switched to the new system for ranked seasons. The previous ranked season was on a shorter side (just about 6 weeks) but as usual, the top-10 strongest and luckiest players on both servers will be awarded with flake Winter Chests flake as well as with firstplace rare in-game items firstplace!

TOP-10 PLAYERS & AWARDS

Happy Lunar New Year! To celebrate the Lunar New Year, we've put together a special program: Enjoy a new original main menu background created just for this occasion The Flying Piglet! Enjoy a new original music track created just for this occasion Melody of the Flying Piglet! [quote]
[/quote] Both items are available in-game for free to everyone for the two weeks of the celebration. Once the event is over, these items will still be available as free tradable in-game drops. Get a new unique emoticon created for the Lunar New Year 2019 Saving Up for FREE* Get a unique emoticon created for the Lunar New year 2018 Automated Dog for FREE* Get a unique global effect created for the Lunar New Year 2017 "Flying lanterns" for FREE* [quote]
[/quote] * these unique items are granted for FREE automatically under the following conditions: (1) you must own Gremlins, Inc. and the following DLC's: Uninvited Guests, Automated Competitors, Astral Gamblers, Famous Figures, Digital Artbook and Original Soundtrack (collectively: The Governor Edition); and (2) you must log into the game at least once during the two-week celebration of the Lunar New Year 2019. A new unique item is now available for purchase at Black Market: "The Golden Piglet" lobby icon. [quote]
[/quote] A special Lunar New Year 2019 Tournament will run on Amsterdam and Singapore servers February 8 February 11. [quote]
[/quote] In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all tournament sessions during this tournament receives a special bonus player icon Facepalm. The special bundle: the Lunar New Year DLC Set gives you 50% OFF when upgrading to the complete set of DLCs!
Thanks for playing with us and Happy New Lunar Year! ______
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As was announced before, the new ranking system based on monthly periods will become active starting from February 1st, 12:00 PM GMT (21:00 Tokyo, 8:00 PM Beijing). Prizes and rating for December and January will be processed by the current system for the last time and then the ranked schedule, rating recalculation and the prize fund will be significantly changed. How exactly?

CHANGES IN RANKED SEASONS SCHEDULE

CHANGES IN THE RATING RESET

• Players from the league of Oligarchs (rating 120.01+) start a new season with 112.00 rating points.
• Players from the league of Governors (rating 110.01-120) start a new season with 108.00 rating points.
• Players from the league of Deputies (rating 105.01-110) start a new season with 104.00 rating points.
• Players from the league of Bureaucrats and the league of Politicians (rating 95.01-105) start a new season with 100.00 rating points.
• Players from the league of Swindlers (rating 90.01-95) start a new season with 96.00 rating points.
• Players from the league of Slackers (rating 80.01-90) start a new season with 92.00 rating points.
• Players from the league of Beggars (rating 0.01-80) start a new season with 88.00 rating points.

CHANGES IN THE PRIZE FUND

• Each player from the League of Oligarchs (rating 120+), including the players from top-10, receives 1 regular chest and 1 seasonal chests of the current season
• Each player from the League of Governors (rating 110.01-120) receives 1 seasonal chests of the current season
• Each player from the League of Deputies (rating 105.01-110) receives 1 regular chest
• Each player from the League of Politicians (rating 100.01-105) receives 15 charges
• Each player from the League of Bureaucrats (rating 95.01-100) receives 10 charges
• Each player from the League of Swindlers (rating 90.01-95) receives 7 charges
• Each player from the League of Slackers (rating 80.01-90) receives 5 charges
• Each player from the League of Beggars (rating 0.01-80) receives 3 charges

To a large part of our audience, the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday is a great opportunity to catch up with their favorite games. To celebrate the occasion, we're going to do a bunch of fun stuff with Gremlins, Inc.

• we'll release a new animated main menu (The Flying Piglet)
• we'll release a new original music theme (Melody of the Flying Piglet)
• we'll release a new in-game emoticon (Saving Up)
• we'll bring back two earlier items (Flying Lanterns & Automated Dog)
• we'll add to the Black Market a new lobby icon (The Golden Piglet)
• we'll run a special LNY-themed tournament (Feb 8 Feb 11)

The New Year tournament is over and as always we would like to share with you some additional data as well as the list of the winners fireapple

DATA

• Participants: 1,807 unique players participated in the tournament.
• Involvement: 235 players completed all of their sessions on one or both servers. 544 players completed more than half of their sessions on one or both servers. 106 players received the "Facepalm" lobby icon for completing all tournament sessions for the first time on one or both servers.
• Sessions played: 3,628 tournament sessions were played in the course of the tournament.
• Average lenght of sessions: Amsterdam (4 players) 57 minutes / 50 rounds. Singapore: (2 players) 23 minutes / 44 rounds
• Bans: 7 players have been banned for the breach of the Fair Play Rules during this tournament.
• Tournament chests: 5,020 tournament chests were distributed during the tournament (overall, including non-tournament sessions, 9,829 chests were distributed to players in this period).

Special prize: the top-5 players on each of the servers will receive by registered mail a set of 4 hard enamel pins "Gremlins, Inc.". The pins will be mailed to the winners as a registered letter to any country in the world, provided that we receive the mailing address within 72 hours after the announcement of the tournament's results. Top-5 winners of each server, please contact Qfasa for details.

TOP-20 AMSTERDAM

1,283 participants 01. GR extenion (1983) 14 sessions, 10 victories. Holy_Grailet x10, flake x10. All tradable trails. Supercups x10. The Miraculous Magnets of Dr. Brooms x10. The Warping Seekers x10. Smart Plugs x5. A set of 4 hard enamel pins. 02. RUSflag (1902) 14 sessions, 9 victories. Holy_Grailet x10, flake x10. Blueprints for all seasonal chests. Supercups x7]. The Miraculous Magnets of Dr. Brooms x7. The Warping Seekers x7. Smart Plugs x3. A set of 4 hard enamel pins. 03. RUSflag .spb.ru (1860) 14 sessions, 9 victories. Holy_Grailet x10, flake x10. Winter chest blueprint. Supercup blueprint. Supercups x5. The Miraculous Magnets of Dr. Brooms x5. The Warping Seekers x5. Smart Plugs x3. A set of 4 hard enamel pins. 04. RUSflag el_Clasic0 (1851) 14 sessions, 9 victories. Holy_Grailet x8, flake x8. Supercups x3. The Miraculous Magnets of Dr. Brooms x3. The Warping Seekers x3. Smart Plug x1. A set of 4 hard enamel pins. 05. ES david_fly (1845) 14 sessions, 10 victories. Holy_Grailet x8, flake x8. Supercup x1. The Miraculous Magnet of Dr. Brooms x1. The Warping Seeker x1. Smart Plug x1. A set of 4 hard enamel pins. 06. Questions (1809) 14 sessions, 9 victories. Holy_Grailet x7, flake x7. Supercup x1. Smart Plug x1. 07. Questions Morluris (1767) 14 sessions, 8 victories. Holy_Grailet x7, flake x7. Supercup x1. Smart Plug x1. 08. Questions DicRoNero (1758) 14 sessions, 9 victories. Holy_Grailet x7, flake x7. Smart Plug x1. 09. Questions littlematt (1728) 14 sessions, 9 victories. Holy_Grailet x6, flake x6. Smart Plug x1. 10. Questions ekim_ (1686) 14 sessions, 8 victories. Holy_Grailet x6, flake x6. Smart Plug x1. 11. RUSflag EuroCUCbKU (1662) 14 sessions, 8 victories. Holy_Grailet x6, flake x6. 12. RUSflag ohlokrat (1659) 14 sessions, 8 victories. Holy_Grailet x5, flake x5. 13. Questions A Literal Screaming Frog (1656) 14 sessions, 9 victories. Holy_Grailet x5, flake x5. 14. RUSflag Golandec (1611) 14 sessions, 9 victories. Holy_Grailet x5, flake x5. 15. Questions Oleandr (1599) 14 sessions, 8 victories. Holy_Grailet x4, flake x4. 16. Questions drabmolfr (1587) 14 sessions, 8 victories. Holy_Grailet x4, flake x4. 17. SE I want to die (1581) 13 sessions, 7 victories. Holy_Grailet x4, flake x4. 17. BE MaBche (1581) 14 sessions, 7 victories. Holy_Grailet x3, flake x3. 19. RUSflag gemidrogen (1572) 14 sessions, 7 victories. Holy_Grailet x3, flake x3. 20. KZ Pref_kz (1527) 14 sessions, 7 victories. Holy_Grailet x3, flake x3.

TOP-20 SINGAPORE

524 participants 01. ab_japaneseflag hosiimo (1716) 18 sessions, 15 victories. Holy_Grailet x10, flake x10. All tradable trails. Supercups x10. The Miraculous Magnets of Dr. Brooms x10. The Warping Seekers x10. Smart Plugs x5. A set of 4 hard enamel pins. 02. RUSflag Thainlex (1704) 18 sessions, 15 victories. Holy_Grailet x10, flake x10. Blueprints for all seasonal chests. Supercups x7]. The Miraculous Magnets of Dr. Brooms x7. The Warping Seekers x7. Smart Plugs x3. A set of 4 hard enamel pins. 03. Questions Wedell (1620) 18 sessions, 15 victories. Holy_Grailet x10, flake x10. Winter chest blueprint. Supercup blueprint. Supercups x5. The Miraculous Magnets of Dr. Brooms x5. The Warping Seekers x5. Smart Plugs x3. A set of 4 hard enamel pins. 04. china winter1703 (1572) 18 sessions, 15 victories. Holy_Grailet x8, flake x8. Supercups x3. The Miraculous Magnets of Dr. Brooms x3. The Warping Seekers x3. Smart Plug x1. A set of 4 hard enamel pins. 05. RUSflag (1548) 18 sessions, 13 victories. Holy_Grailet x8, flake x8. Supercup x1. The Miraculous Magnet of Dr. Brooms x1. The Warping Seeker x1. Smart Plug x1. A set of 4 hard enamel pins. 06. china K (1476) 18 sessions, 13 victories. Holy_Grailet x7, flake x7. Supercup x1. Smart Plug x1. 07. china Night flash (1458) 18 sessions, 15 victories. Holy_Grailet x7, flake x7. Supercup x1. Smart Plug x1. 08. china (1452) 18 sessions, 14 victories. Holy_Grailet x7, flake x7. Smart Plug x1. 08. ab_japaneseflag kinako (1452) 18 sessions, 14 victories. Holy_Grailet x7, flake x7. Smart Plug x1. 10. china Declan (1446) 18 sessions, 13 victories. Holy_Grailet x6, flake x6. Smart Plug x1. 11. ab_japaneseflag impsuley (1398) 18 sessions, 13 victories. Holy_Grailet x6, flake x6. 12. RUSflag Galneryus (1392) 18 sessions, 15 victories. Holy_Grailet x5, flake x5. 13. SG danielfwt (1386) 18 sessions, 13 victories. Holy_Grailet x5, flake x5. 14. china (1380) 18 sessions, 12 victories. Holy_Grailet x5, flake x5. 15. RUSflag GrekHek (1374) 18 sessions, 13 victories. Holy_Grailet x4, flake x4. 16. RUSflag ohlokrat (1368) 18 sessions, 13 victories. Holy_Grailet x4, flake x4. 17. china (1362) 18 sessions, 13 victories. Holy_Grailet x4, flake x4. 18. RUSflag Kieli (1356) 18 sessions, 13 victories. Holy_Grailet x3, flake x3. 19. Questions paranoy (1338) 18 sessions, 13 victories. Holy_Grailet x3, flake x3. 20. china (1314) 18 sessions, 12 victories. Holy_Grailet x3, flake x3. Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) flake = Winter Chest (limited, Winter Season only) * the number of sessions played shows only the sessions that were played while they had impact on the overall tournament score of that player. ** if two or more players have equal number of tournament points, they share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. We congratulate the winners and wish good luck to everyone in future events! Thank you for being such an awesome community! votes ______
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[ 2019-01-08 12:35:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

The New Year is near and what is the best way to celebrate it if not with a big tournament! Prepare yourself! 6 days, a much bigger than usual prize pool, special prizes for the very best players of both servers, more sessions are taken into account... The New Year Tournament is here (well, almost here, it starts next week)! Holy_Grailet 28.12.2018 12:00 PM GMT 03.01.2019 12:00 PM GMT Holy_Grailet steampunk AMSTERDAM cards players: 4 score victory condition: 50 rounds cursecard Chaos Cards: allowed health_powerup Character Abilities: allowed telegram Impending Misfortune: visible cheatdice Characters: from random sets RatsClock Timer: normal Location Field: Clockwork colony Tournament points (place in session/points gained): [olist]

0 tournament points [/olist] * Special rules: The following cards are removed from the deck: cards "Devil's Due" cards "Guild Services" cards "An Award Ceremony" cards "False Testimony" cards "An Honest Exchange" cards x1 "A Set-up" cards "A Voodoo Doll" cards "The Accelerator" votes RULES: Sessions that count towards the tournament: Amsterdam: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (14) Singapore: bh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coinbh2coin (18) For each win, players receive additional points that depend on the strength of the opponents over whom they have won. Important: your tournament points will continue to increase with the increase in the tournament score of your past opponents, over whom you prevailed even if you already have reached the limit of sessions for the tournament. What this means is that the tournament is never over for you as long as your previously conquered opponents continue to play, and win. During this tournament, regular rating points will be frozen for all the players. Your tournament sessions will NOT affect your regular rating. Players get tournament points for the first 14/18 (depending on server) sessions played in the tournament on each of the servers. Any subsequent sessions won't give any tournament points, and won't increase the number of defeated opponents who give additional points. Nonetheless, victories of all opponents who were defeated in the first 14/18 sessions will affect your final tournament rating.

PRIZE FUND:

Awarded: Top 20 players on each of the servers. In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all tournament sessions receives a special bonus player icon Facepalm (only if it has not been received before)!
hypnoheart Special prize: the top-5 players on each of the servers will receive by registered mail a set of 4 hard enamel pins "Gremlins, Inc.". The pins will be mailed to the winners as a registered letter to any country in the world, provided that we receive the mailing address within 72 hours after the announcement of the tournament's results.
Place / Prize [olist]

Holy_Grailet x3, flake x3. [/olist] Holy_Grailet = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only) flake = Winter Chest (limited, Winter Season only) In the case when at the end of the tournament two or more players will have equal number of tournament points, they will share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. However, the award list will not be extended, and we will still award only the top 10 players on each server.

TOURNAMENT CHESTS FAQ:

Q. Where do Tournament Chests drop? A. Only in tournament sessions, which are available via Multiplayer Lobby. Q. If I've finished all my tournament sessions, can I get more tournament chests? A. Yes, as long as you will keep playing tournament sessions. Q. Are the tournament items limited to this tournament only, or to tournaments in general? A. The tournament items are available via tournament chests, which drop during every official tournament in the game. Q. Is there a full list of tournament items available via tournament chests? A. Yes, please see below:

• Message No need to thank me. (uncommon)
• Message Nothing personal. (uncommon)
• Emoticon Winner (uncommon)
• Emoticon Thief (uncommon)
• Lobby icon Darbl fon Murblenton (rare)
• Player profile Trophy shelf (rare)
• Main menu background The Champion (rare)
• Governor frame The Governor of Governors (contraband)
• Blueprint Blueprint: "The Ruffian" (contraband)
• Special item Bomb-o-mat (contraband)
• Token trail Champion's trail (illegal)

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[ 2018-12-22 09:04:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

The Autumn Season is officially over! Congratulations to the strongest and luckiest players on both servers: Top-10 players on Amsterdam and on Singapore will be awarded with pumpking Autumn Chests pumpking as well as with firstplace rare in-game items firstplace!

TOP-10 PLAYERS & AWARDS

It's been a while since we shared the stats on the game, and we though that the approaching holiday season is a good time to reflect on this. Gremlins, Inc. came out in Steam Early Access in October 2015, with the full release in March 2016. Since then we released a number of DLCs, and a lot of content and feature updates. As of now, we continue to update and improve the game based on player feedback, and plan to do so for many more seasons. Current sales of the game are a few hundred copies shy of 200,000; current wishlist is at 130,000; and across all channels, we have about 450,000 owners of the game. Since its launch, players completed roughly 1.5 million sessions in Gremlins, Inc. across both Amsterdam and Singapore servers. Curiously, the rate of single-player and multiplayer sessions is very similar on both servers: Amsterdam: 55% multiplayer, 45% single-player Singapore: 56% multiplayer, 44% single-player In terms of sales by region, things have been moving up and down a little bit throughout the last year, but the overall picture remains the same. All-time sales, by copies, stand as follows: 32% China 16% Russia 14% USA China is twice as big as the next region in the top and, when taken together, China and Russia are responsible for about 1/2 of all sales. If someone asked us about a forecast back in 2015, we would have never thought it possible. 8% Japan 4% Germany 4% France The game has as many players from Japan as it has players from both Germany and France, even though all three regions started off with similar numbers when the game launched. 3% UK 2% Canada 2% Ukraine 2% Australia 15% rest of the world One way of looking at this is that almost 80% of all purchases are made just from 6 countries: China, Japan, Russia, Germany, France and USA. Another way of looking is that the "rest of the world" group is responsible for more sales than the whole of USA. Finally, the sales of DLCs are at this time at around 112,000 copies. Considering that Gremlins, Inc.'s DLCs are not a "paywall" but rather just some items that allow to have extra fun around the game, we're humbled by this high number that reflects both the love of the community and the enjoyment that people get out of the game hypnoheart. The last three years have been an amazing journey for our studio, and none of this would have been possible without the constant stream of feedback and the expression of support of the community which comes from all over the globe. We thank you for being with us, and we look forward to bringing you more fun in 2019 and beyond! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! malice
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Today we release the Winter Season Update for Gremlins, Inc. which includes new cards with a never-before-seen game mechanics, quality-of-life changes, and bug fixes. With this update we also begin the new Winter Season, resetting the rating of all players to the default value of 100.00 (the award ceremony for the top players of the Autumn Season will happen a bit later). The Winter season should last until February 1, 2019, and then we are switching to the monthly system details of which will be announced later. As for this update, below is the list of changes:

A. NEW FEATURES

• Stats are now separated between different playing fields. When you check any player profile (yours or someone elses) you can see not only the combined statistics for both playing fields, but also individual data of how many sessions of each type have been played by the player on the first or the second playing field. The only exclusion is the "quit stats" that only counts as a total for both fields. Please notice that the "Early access" row has been removed from profiles as obsolete all sessions from that period are now included in the overall pool of sessions according to their types.

B. NEW CONTENT

• NEW CARDS: Two different cards (4 cards total) are added to the game. cards "Ancient Detail" After gathering all 3 Ancient Details as active permanent cards, they will be replaced with an extremely powerful "Ancient Mechanism". It won't be that easy though as the activated Details can be taken away from you through Conflicts. cards "Ancient Mechanism" A game-winning permanent card that gives to its owner score1 at the beginning of each round. When a session begins, this card doesn't exist in the deck but it can be added to the game by gathering all 3 Ancient Details.

C. BALANCING CHANGES

• CHARACTERS: a steampunk Pauper: both 'Apathy' and 'No Place for Beggars' now trigger when the Pauper has less than $200 (instead of when the Pauper has less than $100).

D. OTHER CHANGES

• The 1360x768 screen resolution has been added to the game.
• If a player is banned for breaching the Fair Play Rules, their "Ranked session" button now will be replaced with the "Fair Play Rules" button to make it less confusing why the player can't join the queue.
• After finishing a ranked or a tournament session, players can now open the protest forum directly from the game.
• The "My notes" button is added next to the "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" buttons on the screen with the post-session statistics. [notebook Flibustier-USSR]
• The screen with the post-session statistics now shows not only the avatars of the players but also their lobby icons. [notebook Flibustier-USSR]
• The sound when a ranked session is found has been replaced with a different one.

E. FIXES

• Fixed the issue with the "Wind of change" misfortune, where in some very rare circumstances it could duplicate cards. [notebook Standard of Ur]
• Partially fixed the issue with the "always flashing" indicator of the active permanent cards. It can now be turned off by opening and closing the window with the active permanent cards.

F. KNOWN ISSUES