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[p]We are very excited to share some big changes we have made, moving us towards our grander vision of hackmud. Building off your feedback and our recent releases (the Marks system and priv_store), this update continues to improve our new player experience and also adds a deep system that makes high-level play richer.[/p][p]Our primary goal continues to be a financially healthy game that pays for servers and ongoing development. Earlier this year, game sales, the in-game store, and monthly supporters became enough to cover our ongoing server costs. This is a huge milestone for us. Our next target is being able to fund development, allowing us to continue creating new features and systems.[/p][p]We believe with a larger playerbase we will be able to earn enough to support ongoing development: if you love hackmud, tell a friend. If you wouldn’t, tell us why. Your feedback strongly shapes what we build next.[/p][p]Without further ado...[/p][p][/p][h2]Introducing hackmud Seasons[/h2][p]The game now follows two-month long season cycles, with co-op and competitive goals organized through in-game corporations.[/p][p]To support this structure, this release adds hidden marks and qubits, a new non-hidden mark, trade updates, a Corporation Shares & Dividends system, refinements to corps.top, and a season-ending event that closes the loop and sets up the next season.[/p][p][/p][h2]Hidden Marks & Qubits[/h2][p]Hidden Marks are achievements recorded in marks.protocol which are awarded when you take specific actions. We’ve added a lot of them (we’re not saying how many). Find them all![/p][p]Qubits (ⓠ) are a new resource added to the game. A potential currency. A quantum quantification of your knowledge. Earn them through discovering and understanding the edges of the systems in game.[/p][p]Qubits remain latent until a corporation realizes them through a trade. Once realized, they become Bits in the corp's bit purse. Mutuality is mandatory. Choose your partners carefully.[/p][p][/p][h2]Trade System Updates[/h2][p]You can now trade with corps and as a corp representative. When a trade sends Bits (⌽) to a corp, they land in a shared corp purse; admins can disburse from there. Before you use it, take a minute to audit who your corp admins are.[/p][p]Use `trade_corp` to act on behalf of your corp. There are stackable fee reductions for corp representatives as well as for elite-level supporters.[/p][p]Donations[/p][p]Donations are trades which offer only bits from an individual into a corp. Donations do not have a fee. Qubits (ⓠ) are realized through donation. You can combine Qubits and Bits to reach the donation total; the corp only sees the final Bits amount, not how many qubits you used. Choose your partners carefully.[/p][p][/p][h2]Corporate Ranking System Altered[/h2][p]`corps.top` rankings are now sorted by qubits realized. The board shows more corporations, but there’s a floor to keep the signal clear: corps must realize a minimum amount of Qubits to appear on the list.[/p][p]Also added: the list of admins for each corp, and sorting by GC networth via sort: "gc".[/p][p][/p][h2]Mysterious New Mark[/h2][p]the plains of abeyance have been repurposed/repartitioned to facilitate new progress-based incentives, compatible with trust’s marks subsystem. the subversion has already manifested. bear witness with marks.available[/p][p][/p][h2]Corporation Share and Dividends System[/h2][p]This system rewards all corporations on corps.top at the end of the season. It encourages cooperation in getting new players up to speed and extracting their latent wealth. `corps.share` is the entry point.[/p][p]Progress is shown with a percentage bar indicating what share of this season’s active players have hit their individual qubit-realization target.[/p][p]At season’s end, eligible corps on corps.top unlock escalating, stackable dividend rewards based on the percentage. Entry-level dividends grant useful upgrades for script-writing and infiltration. Mid-tier dividends deliver sets of high-end upgrades suited to different proficiency tiers. Top-tier dividends include a chance at powerful, very rare upgrades.
As corps work together - as well as against each other - everyone will receive the same share.[/p][p][/p][h2]Season End Event[/h2][p]Every season ends with a dedicated HYPETRAIN-SPEEDRUN-NOOBHARVEST™ event. During the event duration, signing in counts your account's realized qubits as double toward the season share, and the qubit threshold for the progress bar is halved. So one active player can cover their own requirement plus cover three others’ percentages.[/p][p]We're starting out with a BANG, as this season's end event is TOMORROW! This gives a lil time to play with the systems before next season's full season.[/p][p][/p][h2]Other New Features[/h2][p]LEVELGATE kernel patch[/p][p]We’re continuing to tune the balance between feeling dangerous, learning about danger, and being dangerous. New LEVELGATE policies let you set a minimum security level for scripts a user can run. Configure per-user with kernel.level_gate; temporarily bypass with kernel.level_bypass.[/p]

• [p]The default lowest security level is MIDSEC.[/p]
• [p]Recently active users have been set to NULLSEC. Check your level_gate settings on your users.[/p]
• [p]Trust-script security levels have been adjusted to fit this model.[/p]

[p]marks.clone[/p][p]Use marks.clone to copy earned Marks between users on the same account.[/p][p]corps.hire rescind[/p][p]Use corps.hire {rescind:true} to rescind outstanding corp invites.[/p][p][/p][h2]Thank You to our Supporters[/h2][p]These features were made possible by the Mann family, the JRBF Foundation, and players like you[/p][p][/p][p]Benefactors[/p][p]dunce elliptick jab marto[/p][p]Elite Supporters flutterbyskies apogee aura beardzley bowkill cereal cheshyr coolguy3289 corial daniel dusky gear gleisen hawk jake jumpsplat120 kitsunet hechie lunarequest mr_greed myrmex ndeavor ratstick rinne seraphim sim soong southr6 sudonym tukib wintermute2[/p][p]Supporters ducko official_pi_addict[/p][p][/p][p]Consider joining these awesome folks and becoming a supporter![/p][p][/p][p]Happy hacking, and see you in-game![/p][p]Sean & ComCODE[/p]

[p]- Added: Corp bits purse[/p][p]--- Corps now have the ability to hold bits. bits can be acquired by Corps via trade and donation.[/p][p]- Added: Corp Trade[/p][p]--- Corp owners and admins can now trade bits and receive donations as corps using their corp bits purse[/p][p]- Added: Trade fee discount information added to trade UI[/p][p]- Fixed: Updated pinned cert authorities[/p][p][/p][p]Thank you to our ComCODE volunteers and staff for their contributions! `@ac @daniel @dunce @cthursten @digitalpocket @ghamb @john @kb @marto @seanmakesgames @sudonym @zez`[/p][p][/p][p]&+!+^+&+!&-^%+++&#&--^&-#^-^&!&&!&!&--!++&!%-+%%-+^%+%-&!&+!!&&%!-!-^^!-^%++^&^%#+&-!^##!++&
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[p]- Fixed: Don't play notification sound when bgm notif happens[/p][p]- Added: Created alias `store` for `store_list`[/p][p]- Fixed: Edge case where scrollbar overlaps and hides text[/p][p][/p][p]Thank you to our ComCODE volunteers and staff for their contributions! `@ac @daniel @dunce @cthursten @digitalpocket @ghamb @john @kb @marto @seanmakesgames @shindoori @sudonym @tukib @zez`[/p][p][/p][p]&&!!!!&#+%%++%+^-!-%#&-^^++&!+!#&++!-^-&+!%+%+++-#-+&!^#!&^^--!#-!%!-^!+-!#!%&^%+&-%&%!!!^#-&
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[p]Alright everyone, hm_gamejam_v2 is officially done, and what a wild weekend it's been! You absolutely delivered on the Kaizen theme of continuous improvement.[/p][p][/p][p]We saw 25 scripts submitted, involving 49 unique players, and 109 votes cast for 8430 total points. Huge shoutout to the 35 first-time jammers who jumped in![/p][p][/p][p]You created everything from nethack-like games to golf, gambling, cookie clickers and more, one incremental change at a time. We even got a tattoo out of it! Those last-minute uploads and script runs were CLUTCH.[/p][p][/p][h3]Check Out All the Submissions![/h3][p]If you haven't had a chance to explore them yet, you can find all the submitted games and scripts here:[/p][p]scripts.register { show: "list" }[/p][p][/p][p]Take some time to jump into these: Play them, break them, and maybe give some feedback to your fellow jammers. These games are cool and a ton of fun. Also, the glam rewards generated by jam points are now available-- jump in-game to get your goodies! Find the reward hashes at scripts.register, available for EVERYONE![/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]Thanks to Our Community![/h3][p]Please give a HUGE round of applause to everyone who submitted, played, voted, shared, or otherwise participated! Your energy made this jam RAD. Running these events is a blast because of how engaged, creative, and supportive this community is. You've all helped make this event and space awesome for anyone curious about creating, building, and bringing ideas to life![/p][p][/p][p]We also want to give a huge shoutout for your incredible show of support in helping us hype the launch of Kaizen: A Factory Story for our friends over at Coincidence Games! But also, it's out now~[/p][p]Buy Kaizen: A Factory Story on Steam! It’s RAD![/p][p][/p][h3]What's Next?[/h3][p]You poured your hearts, souls and memes into this jam, but the ACTION is over for the time being, so take a breather, get some rest if you need, and we'll be here whenever you've got the juice again.[/p][p][/p][p]We hope you had fun building, because we had a great time hosting. We'll definitely be doing a hm_gamejam_v3, and we've already written down ways to make the next one even better![/p][p][/p][p]If you love hackmud, consider becoming a supporter! We need your help! Just like the concept of kaizen, every dollar is one incremental step forward towards our goal of financial sustainability.[/p][p][/p][p]We also gave out a bunch of hackmud keys to our other friend organization, Dames4Games. They will be streaming hackmud this upcoming weekend as part of their month-long fundraising effort for their non-profit, which creates spaces where everyone feels valued and celebrated in the gaming world, highlighting the amazing contributions of women and femme-identifying individuals in the game industry. They're also looking for people to stream to fundraise for them, too! If you're a streamer and would like to sign up, that's rad! If you stream hackmud, we'll rally and all jump on your stream.[/p][p][/p][p]Otherwise, stay tuned for more community events, updates and news! We've got a bunch cookin' up! [/p][p][/p][p][/p]

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We are officially in the last day of hm_gamejam_v2: Kaizen! The energy has been incredible, and the continuous improvement has been real. The deadline for all submissions and voting is Monday, July 14th at 18:00 UTC. Check your local time and get those final iterations in!

Remember how it works: Every point you earn contributes to the community-wide glam pool. We've unlocked some sweet glams already, but there's still time to push our collective score even higher and get to that final, ultimate glam!

MAKE: Have an idea? Get it built! It's all about that RAD (Rapid Application Development) and FAFO (Flail About and Figure Out) mindset. Submit your new scripts now!
PLAY: Jump in-game and check out what your fellow jammers have created. You get points for being the first to play a new script!
VOTE: Your votes help cool scripts get discovered and earn everyone more points towards the next glam tier!

[h2]Don't Forget the Goal![/h2]

This jam supports our friends at Coincidence and their new game, Kaizen: A Factory Story. The single most impactful thing you can do right now is hit that wishlist button

GO WISHLIST KAIZEN: A FACTORY STORY ON STEAM (we are not allowed to link to it)

Let's make this final push legendary. Get in there, make, play, vote, and let's unlock those final rewards together!

Good luck, and have fun![/p]