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Here is the trailer for Home Run Empire!
It will be released once Apple gives their approval!
For more updates: discord.gg/gtuwctwuBf
Home Run Empire Update!
Home Run Empire is now available on Android! Also version 1.3 is coming to the AppStore this week.
It features
- A brand new player development system
- A smarter postseason pitching staff
- Being able to call steals and bunts restored for pitch by pitch
- UI Clean Up
- And More
Also note on Android I'm still working to clean up some of the bugs and slower screens. I just wanted to get some version out there for you guys first.
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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 Development
Set 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 Story
Your 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 Portal
Portal 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 Draft
The 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 Day
New 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 Rosters
Add a logo per conference at center court, plus one-tap Update Conference Logos for existing dynasties.
Polish
Premium 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 & More
Faster 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: empiresportsapps.com/patch-n…
Appreciate everyone who keeps playing and pushing this game forward.
Home Run Empire update 1.2.5 is out! I've been working with everyone that said they had a busted file and recovering covering all their saves so hopefully most of the bug fixes are good I can finally get to adding more of the features you guys want.
Android Update: Everything is good to go.I just haven't had had many testers respond and give feedback on how it plays that frequently. If you guys want, I can just release it now in the state that it's in, knowing that it might be laggy, but I'd really appreciate it if some people reached out wanting to test on Android.
Anyways, thanks for all your patience and constant support.
Hey everybody! I’ve been working on a fix for your guys crash points . It should be out tonight or earlier tomorrow. I’m sorry some users are experiencing this.
Also if you would like to be a tester for the game and help me add new features and sort these type of issues out, please DM me!
Hey everybody! 1.2.2 is live! Hope you are all enjoying the game. This one has been pending for a while, so I've already made some good progress on 1.3.
𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗥𝗨𝗡 𝗘𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗥𝗘 — 𝟭.𝟮.𝟮 𝗣𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗦
𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗦
𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵
Find any active player in the league by name. Lives at Info > Players. Tap a
result to open their profile. Cut players and anyone currently in the transfer
portal show up too.
𝗦𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗺𝗮𝗻 / 𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗳
One tap on a starter's rotation card makes them bullpen-eligible. They still
anchor the rotation but can come in for midweek innings, postseason long
relief, or pen emergencies.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
𝗕𝗨𝗚 𝗙𝗜𝗫𝗘𝗦 & 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘
• Career table shows team played for each season
• Cut players enter the transfer portal — AI teams may sign them
• Conference titles count after a conference move
• Pitcher arm resets after an abandoned game
• Innings count reads correctly on every box score
• Per-pitch-type velocity (curveballs sit in the right range)
• 3+ inning long-relief saves now credited
• Energy bar refreshes on off-days
• Pitcher arm recovers correctly during postseason rest gaps
• Regional opening round always pairs 1v4 and 2v3
• Team with more runs always advances
• Grand slams labeled "Grand Slam" in the game log
• Two-way players: edit batting and pitching in God Mode
• Recruit points slider feels instant
• Smoother in-game performance
• Smoother transition after finishing a game
• Hardened save recovery
• Auto-recruit pacing tuned
1.2.1 has been approved and is live now! Make sure to update your app.
More on android and next update soon.
What’s up everybody, a new Home Run Empire 1.2.1 update was submitted last night to the App Store and should be out today.
Conference Realignment
Programs can now earn promotions into stronger conferences.
Build a winner, dominate your league, and move up the college baseball ladder.
Smarter Hitting AI
Batters now make smarter swing decisions in 3-0 counts for more realistic at-bats.
Gameplay & Quality of Life
Committed recruits no longer disappear on Signing Day.
Players from schools you weren’t recruiting can no longer randomly appear on your roster.
Opposing pitchers now get pulled when fully gassed instead of occasionally reaching unrealistic pitch counts.
Pitcher recruiting ratings now better match the information shown during recruiting.
Starting pitchers can now be used out of the bullpen in MANAGE games.
Pitchers receive rest between later postseason rounds.
God Mode pitcher role changes (Starter ↔ Reliever) update immediately and persist across seasons.
Starting a reliever now correctly records a Game Started when appropriate.
Teams from the same conference can no longer be placed in the same playoff pod.
Play-by-play fixes and pitch animation improvements.
Injured players no longer appear in live-game selection menus.
Your previous coach is properly replaced when taking a new job.
Settings now carry over automatically into new dynasties.
Thanks for all the feedback and bug reports. Keep them coming!
What’s up everybody, a new Home Run Empire 1.2.1 update was submitted last night to the App Store and should be out today.
Conference Realignment
Programs can now earn promotions into stronger conferences.
Build a winner, dominate your league, and move up the college baseball ladder.
Smarter Hitting AI
Batters now make smarter swing decisions in 3-0 counts for more realistic at-bats.
Gameplay & Quality of Life
Committed recruits no longer disappear on Signing Day.
Players from schools you weren’t recruiting can no longer randomly appear on your roster.
Opposing pitchers now get pulled when fully gassed instead of occasionally reaching unrealistic pitch counts.
Pitcher recruiting ratings now better match the information shown during recruiting.
Starting pitchers can now be used out of the bullpen in MANAGE games.
Pitchers receive rest between later postseason rounds.
God Mode pitcher role changes (Starter ↔ Reliever) update immediately and persist across seasons.
Starting a reliever now correctly records a Game Started when appropriate.
Teams from the same conference can no longer be placed in the same playoff pod.
Play-by-play fixes and pitch animation improvements.
Injured players no longer appear in live-game selection menus.
Your previous coach is properly replaced when taking a new job.
Settings now carry over automatically into new dynasties.
Thanks for all the feedback and bug reports. Keep them coming!
What features do you want to see in 1.2? Finishing up all the bugs I’ve seen and looking to add some low maintenance stuff that you guys want and hopefully I will have it out tomorrow!
What's up everybody, version 1.2 of Home Run Empire is live on the App Store!
Mound Visit: New in-game tactical tool. When your team is on defense, you can walk out to the mound and pick one of three coaching moves to shape the next batter.
- Settle Him Down — Calms your pitcher and takes some of the fatigue pressure off. Best when your guy looks gassed or is starting to lose the strike zone.
- Attack the Zone — Tells him to go after the hitter. Walk risk drops and he pounds the zone, but a confident hitter gets more pitches to swing at.
- Pitch Carefully — The opposite approach. Hard contact becomes harder to give up, but the walk risk goes up. Use it against the bat in the lineup you don't want beating you.
Coaching: You can now change your hitting and pitching game plan throughout the season. Solid in-season flexibility for shaping how your team plays at the plate and on the mound.
Out-of-Position Defense: Players give up real defense when slotted away from their natural spot. Same-class moves (SS ↔ 2B, 1B ↔ 3B, LF ↔ CF ↔ RF) stay free; cross-class shifts cost.
Run Rule: Blowouts no longer drag on. When a team is up by ten or more after seven full innings, the game ends. Keeps your bullpen fresh for the games that actually matter and lets you move on instead of
watching a 17-2 game drag through the ninth.
Relief Pitcher Stats: Saves, Holds, Blown Saves, and Games Finished now track on the relief stat line per MLB rules. Your bullpen arms finally get full credit for the work they do.
Gameplay / QOL:
- Close the app mid-game and resume right where you left off — count, bases, log, box score, all preserved
- Signing Day card now lists every recruit you dropped and every commit that flipped away
- Rest days between every postseason round
- Regional pairings follow 1 vs 4 / 2 vs 3 across all 16 regions
- Regional host is the actual higher seed
- Pitcher fatigue warning names the reason (stamina, days rest, pitch count, role) and is no longer in the way of the score
- New Auto-Steal toggle in Settings
- Two-way Player of the Year stats correctly split batter and pitcher
- Recruit Wheel reveals stay neutral until the wheel lands
- Continue Dynasty loads your most recent save reliably
- Settings carry into every new dynasty
- God Mode and Remove Ads stay unlocked across every dynasty
- Faster save loading
- Crash prevention
Number #89 on the Sports Charts! Thank you to everyone who has downloaded.
I’ve spent the whole night going through all your suggestions, request and bug fixes and we’ll try to have another update out late tomorrow!
Home Run Empire’s first update is already live!
1.1.1 Features
Added a Hand filter to the scouting page
Added rare easter-egg names
Added the names users put in the Discord
Softened injuries
Fixed the Super Series host issue
Fixed the NIL cap
Fixed the sim overlay so it stops calling weekend games "midweek"
Home Run Empire is live. College baseball dynasty sim. Free. Solo dev, no budget, dorm room. Same one who took Hardwood Empire to #1 in App Store Sports.
I want this to be a game built by the community just like Hardwood was. Drop your feedback, bugs, and ideas and I will update this as much as I can to give you the game you actually want. This is a team effort. Thank you for all the support. It means everything. What school are you running first?
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Quick Update!
The game has still yet to be reviewed by Apple. Hardwood Empire only took 2 days so hopefully this won’t last much longer. I will say though Apple is known to be very slow on weekends when it comes to reviews and App Store help😔I will post as soon as it goes live.
Good news: I’m actively working on update 1.1 while it sits in review and already made some massive improvements. What are some things you want to see in the game or be added to the game?




















