Finally the weather in Stockholm is fantastic (at least to my mind). Blue skies, crisp air, 6 degrees on the morning commute. This has me fired up working on Tactichord. We're shifting gears development wise a little bit now because we are approaching our first private beta! ːsteamhappyː
Last month we did that show down south as part of Malmö Game Week. I pulled out all the stops and took a stand to start a trend (I hope it becomes one anyway) of Tactichord costplaying! Check out my totally metal Lance getup inset to Magnus checking out our booth.
At the show we ran two stations of the game, and started our shift to help collect testers for our exclusive private beta which is coming up. You can do so right now on the main Steam page (just open a new window to the store page and scroll down to "Request access" on the playtest button. I'll wait...
Got that taken care of? Good. Now to support a playtest is not a trivial thing. We need to make a custom Steam build with our server farm, upload it to a special place, have it all marked up so it's nice and easy for you to log bugs with, create some anonymous analytics code so we can see where people get stuck, etc. Maybe say you want to play match 2 until you get an S+ rank? Wicked! But to do so you'd need a stage select menu to be able to choose that level again. We have a design but this isn't implemented. And so on!
The main menu is getting some reworking at the moment. Mette's band portrait is well-received at the moment.
The point is NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD! We have an idea about how our game is both easy to get in to and hard to master, but the game is for you guys so we need your feedback to tell us if that's the case. So stand by, join our Discord now, and get ready to rock!
Click here to reach the Discord so you can log bugs and feedback!
We are trying out enemy attack preview arcs to give more information about how dangerous a move would be.
Next up, Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki!
/David