12th February 2006
The highscore table was completely dominated by a group of high scoring players so it has been trimmed down a little. Sorry guys...but your best scores are still up there and the old high score table has been saved for the record. Now go and get some more high scores!

15th January 2006
Thank you to all who continue to download and enjoy the HamsterJam game and Desktop pet. Have a great 2006!

23rd October 2005
The number of downloads for HamsterJam and the Hamster Desktop pet have gone crazy over the last year. It's great that so many people are enjoying the game and hamster pet, but unfortunately this does not come without a burden for ovine. The running costs for the website are pretty heavy, if you have enjoyed our hamsters or would like to help keep ovine on the net, then why not make a donation?

12th August 2004
This is really amazing! Hamsterball and HamsterJam are nearing their first 10,000 downloads, and for the time scales involved this is milestone for ovine! Thanks for all players and I hope those who have downloaded their own hamster desktop pet are looking after them well.

3rd July 2004
After our first month, HamsterJam and Hamster Ball have been downloaded over five and a half thousand times and 4,800 scores have been submitted. Thanks to all that have downloaded and played the game. If you liked HamsterJam be sure to check out our other games at http://www.ovine.net/

19th June 2004
We've now had well over 2,500 downloads of the game and more than 2,500 scores submitted. HamsterBall, the hamster pet for your desktop has also reached its first 1,000 downloads. Thanks to all that have downloaded the game and ball. There is hot competition for the number 1 spot on the high score table, get your name there now!

11th June 2004
Big thanks to all that have downloaded the game! We've now had 1,000 downloads which is great and 250 of the hamster pet. Meanwhile we've had over 1300 scores submitted since the 3rd June and competition is tough to get on the high score table. We have fixed a very rare bug and uploaded a new version 1.03. It is an extremely rare event but its fixed in any case.

4th June 2004
Version 1.02 of the game has been uploaded. This does not fix any bugs but adds a new feature called second chance. You can activate it with the spacebar at the start of a room. If used the room will regenerate which is handy when skulls and mice are placed in difficult positions. The catch is you only have a couple of seconds to decided and you will loose some of your score ... so use wisely!

1st June 2004
After instant release it was noted that a small bug was found which occurs when getting a new life while leaving the screen. This is now fixed and version 1.01 is now available.

31st May 2004
HamsterJam is completed and the game is ready to download. Click the hamster cage icon above and find the Hamster Bytes food bowl, this will take you to the corner of the cage containing the game in its freely available downloadable form. Also there is the Hamster Ball desktop pet - let hamsters run around your screen while you work :)

April 2004
After completing the development on Xor, the Ultimate Maze Challenge, we decided to adapt the engine further to make a Vic20 Rockman game. Hamsters took the central staring role with Mice as the villans. Primary graphics and code was done in about a week (part time), with several other weeks adding extras, refining the gameplay, testing, title screens and of course development of this website. HamsterJam was born, we have thoroughly enjoyed creating this game, we hope you like the end result!