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Happy Birthday MouseHunt!

Can you believe we released MouseHunt 2 years ago. It has been such a journey for us here at HitGrab. We opened the game to all of facebook 2 years ago with what people thought was a silly idea. The first year was such an incredible journey, our team slept very little as we dealt with all the challenges that came with keeping the servers running and adding content. 2 years later we have almost 500 000 people joining us every month with around 175 000 coming back each day. We are blessed to be doing this still and I am blown away by how fast time flies when you are having fun. We here at HitGrab have been lucky in that you, our audience has actively engaged with us and helped us build this game. We are extremely grateful for your support and will do our best to build the best games and community on facebook. Thanks for playing and being part of our journey. Happy Birthday MouseHunt!

Hiring!

We're looking for talented Flash/Flex/Actionscript 3 developers to join our growing games company. We're not normal. We let you work on stuff you love. We make sure you're respected. Great pay. Great benefits. Fun environment. Send your resume to team [at] hitgrab [dot] com. J.

HitGrab is Going R.O.W.E.

Today, my business partner and I informed our employees that we'd be going R.O.W.E. (Results Only Workplace Environment) for 3 months. The idea was inspired by Daniel Pink's New York Times bestseller Drive (Which I recently devoured in a single sitting on a flight from Toronto to Vancouver). Dan has already mentioned to me that he's keenly interested and will follow our progress. The concept, in a very small nutshell, is employee autonomy over strict structure in an attempt to breed trust, accountability, and employee ownership of their contributions. Here's how we've tackled it in our iteration: 1. Employees can come and go as they please. No time constraints. 2. Every Friday belongs to individuals to work on internal solutions to problems, enhancements of current products, or new ideas entirely. 3. FedEx day, stolen directly from the book, is one 30 hour period every month where we attempt to deliver new products overnight. We're using the third Wednesday of every month. Hackathon-ing. Thai food. Redbull. Rockband. Arkanoid. New products. :) 4. The teams set project targets together. These are targets that everyone on the project teams set together. Team members will hold each other accountable to reaching the targets. 5. Monthly peer reviews between team members. I highly recommend reading Drive. Daniel Pink has at the very least, built a solid case for participating in the new revolution of autonomy. I'll be completely honest in that I'm not sure how this will turn out, but like I told our team, "I'd rather be scared, than bored". Stick with us. My goal is to blog every week about it and have some of our employees do the same. Joel.

We made the local news..

The Toronto Star wrote an article about us and to our surprise we were featured on the front page. Added to that CTV came calling and did a story on us.

Festive wishes

At this festive time of year, we at HitGrab would like to wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays to all of our mouse hunters, rebels and fans. Without their tireless efforts, Gnawnia would be overrun, and the faction lands would be clenched in the steely fist of the Mythmonger. We also want to thank you for all the letters, gifts and support which we have received over the past twelve months. You guys really are amazing. May you have an emergency kit set aside for the arrival of the festive comet, and may you avoid being head-butted into a snow bank by Santa's pet sheep.

MythMonger and MouseHunt fanboxes released to the public!

Wanna spread the love ofyour favorite HitGrab game on your own site? Perhaps keep your own little MM or MH community apprised of the current game status/updates/news? Well now you can. We've decided to make the MythMonger and MouseHunt facebook fanboxes PUBLIC! We don't want to keep these to ourselves and we know that our avid players will make better use of them than we will... so go right ahead. Copy and Paste the code below into the code for your own sites and enjoy! Never miss an update again! For MythMonger copy and paste this :

MythMonger on Facebook

For MouseHunt copy and paste this:

MouseHunt on Facebook

Mythmonger Beta is OVER!

We're so glad to announce that the beta tag on Mythmonger is coming off tomorrow (Sept 9th, 2009) . The full release comes along with a slew of new features and content, better gameplay and a new type of collectable. We're very excited and cannot wait to see how the already avid rebel community will react. Thanks for testing with us - and if you haven't seen the game yet, what are you waiting for!? Follow the link: http://apps.facebook.com/mythmonger By the way - for those who are currently beta testing, the price on Heroic Challenge Cards goes up tomorrow, so be sure to snag some before the full release happens! J.

Our new address

Hi Everyone,If you’ve looked in the left-hand navigation bar lately, you might have noticed our change of address. We’ve been experiencing some unusually severe weather in our area, and as a result of a bad storm a few weeks ago, our office flooded. Try as we might, our team of Elementalists couldn’t fix everything that the storm damaged, so we had to look for a new place. Luckily, our new office is larger, airier and more convenient for all of us HitGrab-ers to get to in the morning. And the best part is... we’re on the second floor! No more flooding for us.We sincerely hope that this new office will allow us to better serve the HitGrab gaming community. Posted by Liz Hirst.

The NEW HitGrab.com

Welcome to the new HitGrab.com. We thought it was time we went ahead and...