Good morning to you forum gurus and fellow lurkers!
I am proud to announce that BorderStrain, my Open-World 2D ARPG is now listed as Coming Soon on Steam and we will now be starting invited Beta Testing!
The Steam page can be found at: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1007070/BorderStrain/
The Webpage for the game can be found at: www.BorderStrain.com
BorderStrain is a Multiplayer 2D Open-World ARPG developed by me and me alone. This is my first game developed and released so it is quite a learning experience! Working on a limited budget and doing all the graphical assets as well as engine building and game-design all by myself has meant that development has taken quite some time but I think it is now time to start sharing the game and getting some invaluable feedback to keep improving it in preparation for launch!
The game is programmed in C++ using OpenGL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du2ukNvOB-g
I am currently looking for active and eager Beta Testers to join and get a free copy of BorderStrain!
If you would like to join Beta Testing there are a few checkpoints that I would like you to take a look at before sending your request to join Beta Testing
Checklist:
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This is still Closed Beta, as such I expect you to honour this and keep any gameplay suggestions, bug reporting, reviewing etc within the Beta Testing Group only until we are ready for public testing, reviewing etc
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Both Single Player testers and Multiplayer Groups up to 5 People are invited. As the number of Beta Testing Slots are limited initially any group which will also test in Multiplayer will take precedence. If you want to join Beta Testing as a Multiplayer Group, please send all details in a single request mail.
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If you join as a solo tester, please state in your join request if you would be interested in being paired up for multiplayer testing or if you simply want to try the game out in Single Player mode
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The webpage is being reorganized right now and have a closed forum which will be accessable by all Beta Testers. If the forum is too limited for feedback, experience sharing etc we will organize a Discord server but for starters we will use the BorderStrain Forums.
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Please be aware that since this entire game has been a solo development with a custom engine there will be bugs! Although I have tried to to as much debugging and playtesting as possible I am sure (and actually hoping!) that you will discover more bugs. Please keep this in mind and I will work as hard as possible to correct any bugs found while playtesting
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The game comes with a custom Map-Maker which can be used to make sharable custom expansions which can be selected upon starting a new Server. Please state in your request email if you would be interested in using the Map-Maker to try to design your own custom expansion
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One prerequisite for being allowed to keep you Beta Key after release and aquiring a full copy of the game upon release is that you have at least 10 hours of Beta Testing logged. This is just to encourage active testing which we would really appreciate, and if you do not reach the target number of hours you will still have had a chance to playtest the game during Beta
- Since I am posting on this forum and I only have a limited number of initial Beta Tester slots I will be sorting applications based on forum activity. If you are not an active forum user and still feel that you would be a valuable Beta Tester, please give a short motivation in your email as I could very well make exceptions to this
How to join:
Send an email to admin@borderstrain.com with the following details:
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Your forum username here (used to do a rough activity check)
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A short presentation of yourself any why you are interested in joining Beta Testing
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Your email
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Your PC Specifications
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Your availability (rough estimate only) for Beta Testing
- Any replies to the Checklist above
I will gather join request during the weekend and the upcoming week and as soon as I feel I have a good pick I will email back replies and, if selected, Beta Keys which can be used to access the game
And of course, any feedback from you guys directly related to the BorderStrain announcement and Steam Page is alwasy welcome, regardless if you are interested in participating as a Beta Tester or not! Please provide any questions, feedback or thought below!
Best Regards, BG109!