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| [[image:hat-anniversary-crest.png|thumb|20 years of Hattrick - official crest <br><small>(font: hattrick.org login page)</small>]] Hattrick was launched in August 1997. At that time of the first release, his game designer, [[HT-Bjorn|Björn Holmér]], was the sole developer of the [[match engine]]. | | #REDIRECT [[Hattrick#Development]] |
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| In the beginning of 2000, after Season 7, '''[[Extralives]] AB''' was founded and in team they began development from scratch, with an all new graphical interface, shaping the game as it is today.
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| In 2009 there were up to 990,000 human users in Hattrick, the maximum number ever recorded so far.
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| Hattrick is been voted the Most Favourite Simulation Game of 2011!
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| At the beginning of 2012, Hattrick joins Zattika, a games publisher focused on social and mobile gaming. Surprisingly, but to the relief of many users, Zattika sells Hattrick back to the old owners in 2013, only a year after his purchase, due to financial problems.
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| The development of the game goes on, but unfortunately in this period some well respected and known colleagues such as [[HT-Klas]] and [[HT-Tjecken]] have to say goodbye.
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| ==HT Versions==
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| * The '''beta release ([[Hattrick 1]])''' lasted only seven weeks (or rounds), and all changes to the team were made by submitting a HTML form with the user's username and password, meaning that the user never actually logged in to the interface.
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| : This is how [https://www.hattrick.org/en/img/history/nostalgilogga.gif HT logo looked like]
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| * The release was re-coded and '''Version 2.0 ([[Hattrick 2]])''' was launched. Hattrick expands to 680 teams, [[Allsvenskan]], division 1, division 2 and division 3 are created.
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| : Season 2 also saw the first ever international match, between [[Sverige]] and [[Danmark]], with Danmark winning 1-2. This match was relatively meaningless, however, since the teams' players were clones of each other.
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| * A '''third version ([[Hattrick 3]])''' was released the following season. This release marked the debut of [[friendly]] and [[cup]] matches. On February 2000, it supported the first [[translation]] ever of the whole game, from Swedish to English (future translations will be completely done by [[LA]] volunteers).
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| * Season 7, which began in July 1999, marked some real progress in the game with '''[[Hattrick 4]]''' so that managers could set their players' individual tactics (such as offensive or defensive) and also change their formation from the fundamental [[4-4-2]] and choose [[team attitude]] (at the time the game allowed you to choose between play cowardly/play it safe/optimistic/all out attack).
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| * ExtraLives were formed in the beginning of 2000 and quickly got pregnant with '''[[Hattrick 5|V.5]]''', which where conceived, with remarkable small complications, about 9 month later. //[[HT-Björn]]
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| [[Image:League-History.gif|frame|center|Expansion of Hattrick - Animated history from season 1 to 31 <br><small>(font: [[User:Jhattara|jhattara - FC Kakskerta]])</small>]]
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| * In 2002 is time for a Match engine renovation: '''[[Hattrick 6]]''' adds [[National Team]]s, International Friendlies, [[Special Event]]s, [[Weather]] and [[Tactics]]. Starting from here, and in just 7 years, the game witnesses an incredible growth in popularity, reaching half a million users in 2004 and almost the million users in 2009.
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| * Part of the Hattrick servers [[Server move|move to Switzerland]] on November 2006. The game was offline, forcing users to wait two days (for several countries the calculation of league matches was also postponed).
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| * In 2010, after 8 years of honored service, the old V.6 engine retires. This is not an official '''new ME release''', but the changes to the simulation are such that we can talk about a total makeover (expecially in regular chances distribution during the match).
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| ==HT Seasons==
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| ''Main article'': [[Global season]]
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| The global season is currently season {{AgeYears|1997|05|25}}.
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| [[image:15_years_timeline-History.png|frame|center|15 years of growth - Hattrick timeline from season 1 to 50 <br><small>(font: [https://www.hattrick.org/en/HT15/ "About our first 15 years" anniversary page])</small>]]
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| == External Links ==
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| * [https://www.hattrick.org/en/Help/History.aspx Official Hattrick History]<!--
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| * [https://www.hattrick.org/en/HT15/ Anniversary page about our first 15 years]
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| * [http://www.hattrick.org/museum/info.html Hattrick Museum]
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