Genre: Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS), Indie, Card & Board Game
Gremlins, Inc.
NEW TOURNAMENT!
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.
ːcardsː Players: 4 ːscoreː Victory: 30 points ːcursecardː Chaos Cards: allowed ːhealth_powerupː Character Abilities: allowed ːtelegramː Impending Misfortune: visible ːcheatdiceː Characters: from random set ːRatsClockː Timer: normal ːLocationː 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):
+150 tournament points
+45 tournament points
+15 tournament points
0 tournament points
SINGAPORE
ːcardsː players: 2 ːscoreː victory condition: 35 points ːcursecardː Chaos Cards: allowed ːhealth_powerupː Character Abilities: allowed ːtelegramː Impending Misfortune: visible ːcheatdiceː Characters: from random sets ːRatsClockː Timer: normal ːLocationː Field: Clockwork town
Special Rules: the deck is modified!
+1 An Honest Crook +1 Operation Cleanup
-1 An Alibi -1 An Award Ceremony -1 A Bag of Money -1 A Compromising Document -1 A Fraudulent Transaction -1 Judgement day -1 An Honest Exchange -1 The Police Dirigible -1 A Set-up
Tournament points (place in session/points gained):
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)!
ːhypnoheartː 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.
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:
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 –
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.
HALLOWEEN GIVEAWAY!
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 –
ːcardsː Players: 2 ːscoreː Victory: 35 points ːcursecardː Chaos Cards: allowed ːhealth_powerupː Character Abilities: allowed ːtelegramː Impending Misfortune: visible ːcheatdiceː Characters: random ːRatsClockː Timer: normal ːLocationː Field: Clockwork Town
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
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
Tournament points:
1st place: +60 2nd place: 0
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ːvotesː RULES:
Sessions that count towards the tournament: ːbh2coinːːbh2coinːːbh2coinːːbh2coinːːbh2coinːːbh2coinːːbh2coinːːbh2coinː (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)!
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:
Participants: 1,022 unique players participated in the tournament.
Involvement: 187 players completed 8 or more sessions. 79 players received the "Facepalm" lobby icon for completing all 8 tournament sessions for the first time. 315 players completed more than half (5+) of their sessions.
Sessions played: 1,425 tournament sessions were played in the course of the tournament.
Bans: 10 protest have been investigated and 13 players 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).
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
Gremlins, Inc. now supports additional screen resolutions: 2560x1440 and 3840x2160.
Visual notification of a new session
If the game's window isn't active (minimized or the player switched to another task), the game's icon on taskbar will blink in following cases:
- a new ranked session is found for the player - on character choice screen at the start of the session - the session has began
Highest and lowest results of the end game stats are now highlighted
When the end game stats are shown, the highest and the lowest results of each category are now highlighted (the highest with green color and the lowest with red color). This change is retroactive and will work with the stats of the sessions that were completed prior to the update.
B. NEW CONTENT
NEW CARDS:
Two new cards are added to the game.
ːcardsː "Judgement Day"
Played: in the Court Cost: ːvotesː1 Move points: 3 Type: regular Number of these cards in the default deck: 1
Special rule:
Choose and opponent that teleports to the Court, pays you $100 and skips a turn. Get an extra turn.
"The court and the casino are very much alike: this is where one gambles with high stakes, and this is where it is the institution itself that always wins."
ːcardsː "Coup d'état"
Played: in the Jail Cost: free Move points: 1 Type: criminal You get: +ːmaliceː2 Number of these cards in the default deck: 1
Special rule:
You become the Governor. Teleport to any spot or location.
"Sometimes, to reach the top, all you have to do is give a really good push from the bottom."
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
Information about all currently known issues, their status, as well as the suggestions from the community can be found at our public page on Trello: https://trello.com/b/HjOStDAS You can use our forums to report new issues or make suggestions about the game – they will be added to the Trello list.
Finally, as always, we invite you to join the community of Gremlins, Inc. on Discord – where we already have more 2.500 players, communicating in English, Russian, Japanese and Chinese – use this link to join.
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 ːfireappleː
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.
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).
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, there’s 516,068 players who own Gremlins, Inc. on Steam – coming from over a hundred of different countries!
OUR AUDIENCE
We found that making your game available in different languages is a great way to make your players happy. Here’s where our audience is coming from:
It may be hard to believe, but English is the native language of fewer than 25% of our audience.
OUR APPROACH TO NEW CONTENT
Early on, we made the decision to release all the new content for free so that the game is updated for everyone. The few DLCs that we released contain purely cosmetic items designed to bring more fun to those of players who love the game and want to support us. It seems that this approach makes people happy:
NUMBER OF PLAYERS ONLINE
Below you can see the number of players online in the game, on average, by months, since its release. Green is “average players online at any point in a given month”, orange is “peak” for a specific month.
We’re really happy to see that people continue to play the game on both European and Asian servers.
WHAT’S IN THE FUTURE FOR GREMLINS, INC.
We remain committed to updating the game with new cards every few months, to changing the rules of ranked sessions on each server once per month – to keep the competition challenging. We also continue to organize regular official tournaments, with the next one scheduled for August 9-12.
The screenshot above is from one of the exceptional tournament sessions: this is the final game of this year’s team tournament “Cooperating Capitalists”. You can watch the full recording here.
COMMUNITY
The best way to connect to the community of Gremlins, Inc. is through its official Discord server.
The server currently has 2,500 members who speak English, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean languages.
WHAT’S IN THE FUTURE FOR OUR STUDIO
Since 2017, most of our development efforts – outside of the time required to continue with the updates for Gremlins, Inc. – are focused on our new game, Spire of Sorcery.
We expect to release it on Steam under the Early Access program later this year. Initially the game will be available in English, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Japanese languages. Korean, German and French languages will be added a bit later.
Spire of Sorcery is a single-player dark fantasy survival game with indirect control. As with Gremlins, Inc., we’re giving the project 100% of our current skills, making it as good as we possibly can, and pushing our creative minds to their limit.
Financially, the development of Spire of Sorcery became possible only because of the great sales of Gremlins, Inc. We’d like to thank those of you who already bought a copy of our previous work for making this new game possible! Since 2013, it’s been our dream to make a game about exploration and magic, and now it’s finally coming together, with just the last stretch of development work left.
ːcardsː players: 3 ːscoreː victory condition: 30 points ːcursecardː Chaos Cards: allowed ːhealth_powerupː Character Abilities: allowed ːtelegramː Impending Misfortune: visible ːcheatdiceː Characters: from random set ːRatsClockː Timer: normal ːLocationː Field: Clockwork town
Tournament points (place in session/points gained):
+139 tournament points
+26 tournament points
0 tournament points
* Special rules:
Each player starts with an active Ancient Detail.
Changes in the deck:
ːcardsː -3 Ancient Detail ːcardsː +1 The Runner Bomb ːcardsː +1 A Confiscation ːcardsː +1 A Tribute to Chaos ːcardsː +1 The Counterfeit
ːvotesː RULES:
Sessions that count towards the tournament: ːbh2coinːːbh2coinːːbh2coinːːbh2coinːːbh2coinːːbh2coinːːbh2coinːːbh2coinː (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)!
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:
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 ːfireappleː
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.
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).
