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Thanks to everyone for their contributions to this thread. The two playtesters who have been testing my game for a while now - one of them since February - are doing a fantastic job. The second guy, who started in May, has found things that the first playtester missed and I have now got a third guy who has just started playtesting who has found things the other two missed! Added to that I have a fourth tester who is yet to start testing, it will be interesting to see what he finds and comments on.

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Available now: "The Fortress of Fear" - Programmed using ADRIFT, over 275 locations and 30+ characters.
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Awesome...I've enjoyed reading what others have to say, too.

In this spirit, would it be useful maybe to have a pinned topic describing basic outlines of how to beta test, what to ask for in a beta test, alpha vs. beta tests, good timetables for beta testing (especially re: competitions,) etc.? I know there are a lot of resources out there e.g. the wiki, or at game-testing.org, but I also seem to recall Matt Wigdahl having a really good write-up of his Aotearoa experiences. I'm sure there are others & it'd be potentially very handy to have things in one place a la the pinned Inform 7 documentation topic.

Hello,

I've tested many other games and they were more positive experiences, i.e., communication both ways. I think that it may have been a fairly isolated incident. It won't stop me from testing.



Neil