My original intention was to go open.
Usagi is back don. I have no idea whether an open or closed beta is best? Also my brotherās birthday is the fourth have to remember to give him a call.
Usagi !_!
The only drawback to an open beta is a lot more people see the unfinished (unpolished) work. Hard to keep surprises and twists unspoilt.
In every other way, open-beta is better IMO.
Open beta will give you more feedback, faster with less effort on your part dealing with emails directly to you. It also gets more people interested.
You may consider posting sets of scenes instead of the entire game, so that feedback can be handled orderly. From what youāve said of the size of the game, youāll get lots of feedback, and it may be best to get it in smaller chunks.
Really looking forward to reading your story.
either way count me in for the closed beta
My vote is go open, fwiw. And either way, Iām in.
Iām new here, I joined because Iāve played your Demo @ScarletGeisha and it was so intriguing I had to comment on it. in short, love it ^^
Hmmm but then again interest isnāt really an issue for this game. Iād honestly advise closed beta release (in which iād be willing to test if you needed :p) and then go public, but the choice is of course yours
I want in to!
me too I want in.
@JimD I donāt know if I can make small chunks work. The way I have constructed the game has many of the choices culminate into a result instead of being immediate.
Iād love to play the beta too, please!
Iād certainly be interested if you do end up running it closed beta. Then again, same if you donāt.
seems legit though slow progress.
@ScarletGeisha Thatās understandable. Youāll have a lot more feedback to sift through but it will mostly be worth the time and effort. You have a ton of people looking forward to reading it and providing feedback.
Just want to say that I canāt wait for the finished project, and personally I hope that itāll be given to us in open beta.
Hey Geisha! Glad to see another Asian girl on here. 
In any case, Iām really excited for the release of Samuraiās open beta and I love the idea of an egalitarian feudal Japan where one can be a female warrior, considering that in all the other historical interactive fiction Iāve played that takes place in a Japanese setting, the PC is a faux action girl. (Not worth the $2.99ā¦)
MORE ASIANS!!!
@mistylavenda Yay! Iām not alone anymore!
That is true so true, about female PC being faux action girl, and also how the settings are all made with patriarchal dynamics anyway.
On another note, I thought that since Iāve decided this is set in a world where we donāt have to deal with sexism, the language should probably reflect that. Probably a bold thing to go around experimenting with language when you arenāt a master of it, but I hope it works out where the only gendering in language is meant to reflect reproductive role and nothing else.