All About Beta Testing

[Havenstone]

Glad it was helpful. Let me also pull out from one of those threads a note by another of our most prominent HG authors:

Feedback about the Beta Process

I doubt I will ever do another open beta. I receive tons of feedback that boils down to requests for customizations (like @Mary_Duffy mentioned in the other thread). I also received reviews stating they were upset there was not much more content in the published game than the beta (50k words isn’t much, I guess). I still run a core closed beta group while I write and will run short-term betas at milestones. Otherwise, open betas are a thing of the past.

By contrast with Lucid (and Jim’s future intentions), we of course have Cataphrak, whose “open betas” produce threads that are the stuff of legend. Rambling, almost-impossible-to-keep-up-with, forum-breaking legend.

https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/guns-of-infinity/2656/39896

And I just want to give another shout out to my writing community on the XoR thread, who over almost four years of open alpha/beta testing have strengthened my game immeasurably – even though I’ve also taken many things with a healthy grain of salt.

Choice of Rebels Part 1 WIP thread

For the past couple of years, I’ve been working on a fantasy CoG called Choice of Rebels. Like all self-respecting epic fantasy, it’s going to be a series… say, four or five games, when all’s said and done? That kind of scale seems to be working out well enough for JimD. Anyway, I’ve now got more than two-thirds of the first game written. It’s enough to give a pretty good flavor of the world, characters, and plot – but there’s enough unfinished that I can still make major course corrections.…