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Hardwood Empire 3.5 is being submitted to the App Store today and should be out in the coming days.

This one adds a coaching pressure layer, a real player development system, a rebuilt transfer portal, and a reworked pro draft.

Player DevelopmentSet a Focus for every player and his growth follows it. New Offseason Training Camp lets you spend development points to push guys toward 99, and a Growth History tab tracks every player's year-by-year climb. The redshirt call now comes after camp, so you decide once you've seen the jump.

Coaching Pressure & Season StoryYour AD sets preseason expectations, and you're graded against them with a new End-of-Season Report Card. Morale & Locker Room rebuilt, talk to any player, make real promises, and keep them or lose his trust. New Story Events pull real players from your roster, with real consequences.

New Transfer PortalPortal points now scale with your open roster spots, so rebuilds get real chances. Recruiting skill matters more than prestige, top transfers are harder to land, and position crowding is respected. No more free superteams.

Smarter Pro DraftThe entire pro draft was reworked, who declares and who can be talked into staying now weighs position, OVR, potential, stats, your development track record, and more.

Game DayNew Game Preview Gameplan you can mix and match inline, redesigned halftime adjustments (now 3x2 with a sixth option), and a cleaner post-game box score. Plus bigger title celebrations, conference and national championships now get logo glow, confetti, haptics, and sound.

Custom RostersAdd a logo per conference at center court, plus one-tap Update Conference Logos for existing dynasties.

PolishPremium in-game notifications (the gray toast pills are gone), tabular figures on scores and clocks, bigger tap targets, and real press feedback everywhere.

Bug Fixes & MoreFaster recruiting with arrows to flip through prospects, committed recruits now show true OVR/POT, more social-media takes with clickable player names, injuries now correctly miss games, fixed dead taps at the top of screens, and squashed a recruiting-changeover crash.

Full patch notes: https://empiresportsapps.com/patch-notes

Appreciate everyone who keeps playing and pushing this game forward.

What's up everybody, version 3.4 has been submitted to the app store.

Selection Show: New Selection Sunday broadcast with theme music, Empire Takes desk videos, cut-line logos, and stat-backed lines built from your actual season.

Social Media: New fan feed with team-logo avatars and a tabbed layout. Tournament-aware posts shift through the season, meme images attach to fan reactions, and new analyst voices added.

Player Search: Search any player across all 365 teams with live results as you type. Lives under the More menu.

Commit Reveal Wheel: New pie wheel reveal that lands on the winning school. Cinematic spin with synced sound and jersey swap. Card stays neutral until the wheel stops.

UI: Redesigned the home page and several other screens. Added a National Championship history tab. Schedule pills standardized across every row, tappable opponent box-score rows.

Gameplay / QOL:
- Tempo refined across every sim path
- Smarter minute distribution that respects position needs
- Smoother and-1 free throw timing
- Halftime adjustments carry into the second half
- Conference schedules balanced so every team plays the same number of games
- Neutral-site non-conference games outside of MTEs
- Bracket avoids early same-conference matchups
- More natural home/away rotations
- DPOY voting weighs a fuller defensive profile
- POY automatically claims a first-team All-American spot
- Career averages surface on retired and transferred players
- Faster save loading
- Crash prevention

I'll attach a link for a more in-depth summary if you want to read!

https://empiresportsapps.com/patch-notes

What's up everybody. Just wanted to keep you guys updated on the game because I know I've been a little bit quieter. I try to get back to everyone in my DMs and on the Discord but everything is just so hectic. I will say the Discord; you'll probably get a response faster than on here.

I just wanted to thank you guys again for everyone who's supported the game and been playing and has been contributing to the community. At the end of the day I just wanted to make a game that you guys will all love to play. The whole thing is a learning process and I appreciate everyone that has stuck through.

With that said I just wanted to show you guys a couple of new things that you should expect in the next update in the coming days. We'll also have all the new bug fixes and some things to make the original experience available to people who want that and want a simpler game!

Also for all those interested in Home Run Empire, I should have more on that in the coming day. Again thank you and love you all!!!!!!!!

Introducing Home Run Empire, a college baseball game like no other.

New features never seen in a baseball game, built around the community, always listening to your ideas.

Everything you love about Hardwood Empire, plus more.

Coming soon.

https://x.com/HardwooodEmpire/status/2059783714637574530?s=20

What's up everybody, version 3.3 has been submitted to the app store.

Awards / History: Added Award Race pages so you can track national and conference award races game by game as the season goes on. Also added Player of the Week, full Draft History, cleaner History pages, Legends, Hall of Fame, all-time leaderboards, and better player bios.

Pro Draft: Added 30 fictional pro teams with names and colors. Drafted players now show round, pick, and pro team, with every draft saved into league history.

Stat Leaders: Full UI pass to make the page cleaner, easier to read, and more polished.

Rankings / RIM: Added RIM, the game’s NET-style resume metric. Also polished rankings, resumes, seeding, ranked wins, mid-major logic, head-to-head tiebreakers, and tournament tracking.

Story Events: Added Off / Normal / In-Depth options with more player events, avatar popups, morale effects, attribute changes, hot/cold streaks, and missed class decisions.

National TV: Ranked vs ranked games can now become National TV games, with big wins giving your program a prestige boost.

Gameplay / QOL: Better sixth-man usage, smarter CPU rotations, cleaner CPU progression, overtime labels, recruiting/transfer polish, push notifications, NIL stability, schedule/tournament polish, redshirt display, career history cleanup, save recovery improvements, older save support, and more.

I’ll attach a link for a more in-depth summary if you want to read!

https://empiresports.pages.dev/patch-notes

More on baseball very soon.

Worked on an update yesterday. Going through all your guys' responses with my testers. I will provide the patch notes.While I believe it is way more rare, I still have to find a permanent fix to the training screen crash that happens every once in a while. As I mentioned, I just want to do bug passes for the next few days. I should be able to get that done tonight and out for tomorrow. Let me know what you guys think of the 3.2 and all the new features, and what you guys want to see. ❤️

• Fixed an issue that could cause crashes when advancing from Training/Development into the next season.

• Fixed a crash that could occur after the Conference Tournament Championship.

• Fixed an issue where some saves could become stuck around Game 3 or 4 of a new season.

• Added automatic repair for certain corrupted schedule/save states.

• Fixed Force Advance failing in affected stuck-save scenarios.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when using Sim to Recruit Window.

• Fixed an issue where dropped recruits could still count against your NIL budget.

• Fixed tournament games not appearing correctly in your team Schedule history (Conference Tournament / National Tournament / Play-In).

• Fixed Year-by-Year records not correctly counting all postseason games.

• Fixed duplicate entries appearing in certain All-Time Player histories.

• Fixed recruiting commitment percentages showing inaccurate post-commit values.

• Tuned recruit generation to reduce unrealistic freshman dominance while preserving rare elite prospects.