If you’ve applied to be a beta tester, no matter how recently or how long ago, go check your e-mail (remember the spam folder!) – or even better, visit the forums and see if you have access to a shiny new section.
Should you not have been accepted this time either, please accept my humblest apologies. I can’t accept all testers, since they’re almost all too many already!
And beta wise, things are progressing nicely, but y’know, that school thing. Busy. Yeah. I’ll see if I can give you non-beta people some goodies soon, though.
First of all – a big thank you to all people who applied for the beta. Whew, there was a hundred of you – far exceeding my expectations!
The beta phase has now started, with a little over 40 testers being appointed for the time being. “Bugs coming at us like in Starship Troopers”, to quote a certain song.
With this in mind, I’d like to apologize to those people not brought in for the beta – I know it must be a real downer for you guys. I simply could not have taken all of you, though, as much as I had wanted to. I might still take in a few extra testers in a second batch, though, so all hope is not lost just yet!
If it’s of any consolation, though, here’s the Seal Hunter intro movie – even though that’ll probably act as even more of a teaser. (Watch it on YouTube for higher resolutiony goodness!)
I’ve now reached the point where testing on a larger scale is about to become necessary, and while the game isn’t quite beta ready just yet, I’m mere inches away.
Thus – let’s get this going.
In order to sign up, visit http://beta.sealhunter.se/ and fill in your application. Note that you will need a forum account – which you hopefully already should have.
More information and a deadline beyond which I won’t consider applications any longer will follow in due time. School is still keeping me all too busy, guys, and sorry about that!
There’s now a Twitter feed for Seal Hunter over in the sidebar, which I will hopefully utilize to bring you more frequent – and also more brief – updates. At least being forced to stay beneath a certain message length will aid that sentiment.
On a different note, I’ve just finished a very painful albeit necessary switch to a new font rendering library (Glyph Keeper, for those inclined). I’ve yet to polish up the implementation of the new music library though, so buh. Should take me an hour or two to fix up, at some point.
For those who wish to partake in slightly more accessible discussions than those held in this blog’s comemnt section, the Seal Hunter Forums are now open. I encourage you to register there and kick things off!
(This especially goes for those who aspire to become beta testers. Proving yourself active is good!)