Arcturus looking for playtesters!

Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨muts@feddit.nl⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

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Hi! I’ve been working on a deep sim sci fi survival horror game for almost two years now, it has started out as a deferred renderer for 2D graphics which eventually turned into a full 2.5D engine and game. I’m currently wrapping up an early alpha playtest and I would love to get your feedback! I have not really done any marketing so I’m far behind on community engagement. If you’re into physics based unique experience with lots of nerdy simulations for atmospherics, electricity, biomes, and flora fauna, then head on over to my discord channel where will be orchestrating the playtest and I update on development almost daily. Discord and if you’re already keen on it, a wishlist would be greatly appreciated! Steampage

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Dragonborn3810@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Looks great! I’d be interested in the play test but is there a way to get involved avoiding discord?

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- muts@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You’re not the first but I’d be more than happy to accommodate the non discorders, I’m currently afk but I will investigate the suggested alternatives and relay back here, do you have a preference of the mentioned alternatives so far?
  
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Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m a discord hater and low key refuse to join more servers as I try to convince my communities to move to different platforms. Would love to test on Linux for you though. Happy to provide feedback back here or something.

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- muts@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Fair enough, what kind of communities that would offer a similar hub as discord would you convince others on? I can try relaying back here as I’d appreciate having you testing but it’s not ideal I reckon for the purpose.
  
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  - asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The most similar and FOSS one is Revolt (revolt.chat).
    
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  - Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Matrix, and there’s a P2P one that just went around called PeerSuite? Both are far from perfect, but at least aren’t yucky corpo platforms. Sorry to come across so harsh in the initial comment, the tone in my head was light hearted I promise lol. More of a “I’m happy to help figure out an alternative communication stream in order to make me a useful tester.” Might be worth making your game a Mastodon account to direct people to from the Steam page? Could be a good spot to encourage people to learn about the fediverse and provide a channel for updates and a message system for testers? Idk. Discord is somewhat unique still in the type of organizational tools it provides, hence the love-hate relationship I have with it lol
    
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Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
OP asked before posting and got mod authorization.

OP is a good OP. 😁

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- muts@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thanks mod! 👊
  
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  - Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It may need some formating though. Add two space at the end of a paragraph, then the line break (I know, markdown is weird sometimes)
    
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IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Because this is Lemmy, I feel like I have to ask, Linux support? Or is it Windows-only for now?

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- muts@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I have it running on Linux and Windows 👍 if there are playtesters for Linux or MacOS I will provide builds for those, MacOS is untested however I’ll have to borrow a MacBook from someone :)
  
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