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Marble AgeNewsClosed-beta Pre-Civilization Egypt invitation
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Closed-beta Pre-Civilization Egypt invitation

Marble Age · published 27 Sep 2016, 14:11 UTC

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About the new Pre-Civilization Egypt game


If you are good at English, we would like to invite you to take part in the selection of testers for closed-beta test of the game about Ancient Egypt. Final name of the game is Pre-Civilization Egypt! ːsteamhappyː

The game focuses on the period from the beginning of the Neolithic in Upper Egypt in 5000 BC until the advent of the state in the year 3000 BC.

The game is made with the informational support of The Center for Egyptological Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (CESRAS)

Everything in the game as scientific authentical as possible within a modern reconstruction of predynastic Egypt. Here are some pictures:

City:

Buildings:

Egypt:

Technologies:

Cults:

Test conditions


The game is in the beta-test mode and in the most basic English localization, so there are very important conditions that you need to accept before you send your request:

  1. English is your native language or you are very good at it or it’s a part of your profession – you are an editor, journalist, writer, etc.
  2. The game has bugs, bad texts and this is normal thing. We had together polish everything – for example, indicate a bad text and suggest a proper fix.
  3. While you testing, very important to carefully read everything and, when necessary, to write proper suggestions. If you are willing to help with testing, but not ready to follow all of the following instructions, you'd better wait for the release of the full game.
  4. During testing, you should not just play the game: while playing you must record the video (once game screen, without the voice), look for bugs and write about found bugs and text suggestion in TXT-document. All comments in txt-document must be written a specific format (detailed instructions see below).
  5. You agree that you will not distribute the game or video and any other material or information which you receive at the time of testing, to any third parties or persons. Even to your friend, if he is not a tester. While testing, the game has non-final quality and we don't want to spoil the impression of the other people.

Reward


    Your reward for good and successful work:
  1. Digital version of the game after the release: Steam version for PC/MAC, or mobile, when we will test it.
  2. At your request, we can add your name to the credits of the creators of the game.
  3. You will be able to make the project better, offering some cool text suggestions (if they really are good and won't hurt historical aspects).

How it works


    If you agree, below is the description of how it will work:
  • The testing will be held in the closed group in Steam Community. There you can download the latest version of the game, inform us about results and communicate with other testers.
  • Before testing, you will get the latest version for time-limited test (2 days), after that we immediately expect you to post the video + comments into sprecial thread.
  • Very important to record each of your game sessions and send it to us. Each video will be analyzed, we will see all the oddities, bugs, text issues, etc. "How" we will describe in closed group.

Questionnaire for your request


If we didn't scare you, and you are ready to start testing, you need to fill out a short questionnaire which will help us to understand the specialty of your testing:

  1. How old are you?
  2. Your native language?
  3. Do you work professionally with texts?
  4. Have you played any games of Pre-civilization series earlier? If Yes, please specify which ones.
  5. Did you play the demo version of Egypt?
  6. Configuration of your PC: OS version, RAM, screen resolution, CPU model, video card model (with memory).
  7. Do you have any knowledge of the history of Egypt or the Ancient world in addition to the school curriculum?
  8. Link to your Steam profile so we can send you a friend request and invite to a closed group, if we select you as the tester.


You can write you request it in this thread. The request is not a guarantee that you will become a tester, by reading your request we are going to judge how clearly you can follow the instructions.

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