Beta testing

[Bios]

Well... how can I help you? How can i join for beta testing? thx

[Starfyre]

http://www.darwinia.co.uk/betatest/index.html

Makes me wonder how you got here. Once you're on the main page, it's...like....REALLY hard to miss

[Bios]

I have read this before I send my questions, but i didnt find where is aplication to test

[Bomber777]

Um... Dude, the Apply form is to the left above the Darwinia Forum button. If you got here you should've seen the apply button on that page.

[Bios]

Not APPLY BUTTON, I ask where is APLICATION (GAME) to test! I mean file or archive.

[LLamaBoy]

Er, if you had read the details, you would have found that IV will select 100 people to give the beta to for testing purposes, and then around 25 of them will be selected for further testing in the next stage. They plan to have the beta ready by sometime next month...

[Deepsmeg]

Not yet available.
Wait.

[Bomber777]

OOOOOOOHHHH, you meant the actual product we're supposed to test. Well, first you have to get invited into the beta test (meaning none of us actually have an invitation yet) and if you are rather lucky and do get invited you then get the game sent to you/you download it so you could debug it and such. It isn't actually in a real public testing stage yet.

[Bios]

Huh, only 100........ in other beta test games will be testing by over 1000 users

[LLamaBoy]

Other games have a much bigger development team and game scope. This a fairly low key team of people and the game isn't on par with games like C&C: Generals of AoM... Therefore it won't need so much testing, or testers.
Remember, the game reported so far is barely 1MB in total size, including graphics. Compare that to Generals' 1.7 GB...

[Lorka]

Huh, only 100........ in other beta test games will be testing by over 1000 users

Yes, but this isn't like other games.

I was a bit suprised to see no 'personal statement' kind of bit in the submission. How're they meant to know how stunningly creative and intelligent we all are beyond our PC specs?

[Bios]

Lorka : Too bit hardly

[false]

Huh, only 100........ in other beta test games will be testing by over 1000 users

Yes, but this isn't like other games.

I was a bit suprised to see no 'personal statement' kind of bit in the submission. How're they meant to know how stunningly creative and intelligent we all are beyond our PC specs?

Behavior on forums.

[Jimmy D]

I'd love to be a beta tester for Darwinia, I love RTS games, so when I heard that Introversion's second game was gonna be an RTS, I was really glad. Introversion have a really good reputation for creating games that focus on the gameplay rather than the asthetics and this was shown in Uplink, I still play that now, so Darwinia should do better than some of the higher budget games that have been too unbalanced towards one side in the recent past.

At least this beta is open to the UK, not like The Matrix Online beta tests. Although Introversion is UK based, so I'd expect it to have beta testing in the UK

[Starfyre]

Don't think location matters much, since the released Betas won't likely include Mulitplayer, so there's not going to be serious Netlag on the IV server(s).

I think Open Betas are fun and a good way to improve your bug reporting skills. As shown in a thread earlier, it's not all that easy.