New "porn maze" game, nearly ready for beta, what now?

[variantF95]

Hello! I signed up here recently, mainly to discover and download some adult games, but, well... I'm an experienced dev, so I started thinking about creating something myself, and then I started playing around with Unity.

I began with a simple, test project - just a quick 3d maze to run around in. Next, some procedural generation so the maze is unique each time. Then, obviously, I needed to add some porn!

A couple of weeks later, and I have a working game where you run around collecting pictures in a maze, to unlock bigger mazes with harder porn. It's nothing terribly complex, but it's kind of fun and I thought other people might like to play with it.

So, does anyone have any tips on finding beta testers, packaging this thing up for release, which file hosts to use and so on? I'd prefer to get a bit of feedback from some experienced devs before making this generally available (and since I'm new here, I can't post file links anyway), but I'd also like to get this "out there" fairly soon so I can move onto something a bit more complex.

(edit: I should add, I'm doing this for fun, so I don't have any requirement or interest to make money with this - the plan is to distribute for free, especially since the porn images in the test release are wholly stolen from commercial porn sites.)

 

[Saki_Sliz]

Well This place is a good place to start asking. Also a dev here. as far as i know, just using google drive can do the trick if all you need to do is share. if you want to wrap it up, a simple zip file is enough to share it on google drive, and if you wanted to you can make an installer, or I could make the installer for you. I can also play test for you and report back my thoughts if you need some more technical feedback.

 

[Droid Productions]

Hello! I signed up here recently, mainly to discover and download some adult games, but, well... I'm an experienced dev, so I started thinking about creating something myself, and then I started playing around with Unity.

I began with a simple, test project - just a quick 3d maze to run around in. Next, some procedural generation so the maze is unique each time. Then, obviously, I needed to add some porn!

A couple of weeks later, and I have a working game where you run around collecting pictures in a maze, to unlock bigger mazes with harder porn. It's nothing terribly complex, but it's kind of fun and I thought other people might like to play with it.

So, does anyone have any tips on finding beta testers, packaging this thing up for release, which file hosts to use and so on? I'd prefer to get a bit of feedback from some experienced devs before making this generally available (and since I'm new here, I can't post file links anyway), but I'd also like to get this "out there" fairly soon so I can move onto something a bit more complex.

(edit: I should add, I'm doing this for fun, so I don't have any requirement or interest to make money with this - the plan is to distribute for free, especially since the porn images in the test release are wholly stolen from commercial porn sites.)

Congrats on taking the first steps. I did much the same, 18 months ago.
In terms of concrete stuff:
Approved File Hosts

I use Mega, MegaUp, Google Drive and FilesUpload.

For testing, you CAN just put it out, put up a game request for your own game (using this template), and one of the authorized uploaders will shift it to the Games thread. You'll get plenty of people giving you feedback, though the flipside is lack of QA will get you a couple of 1* "game breaks for me" style reviews In general, it's a friendly community.

You can also hit Discord; there's a couple of ones I'm active in (EroDev, F95, Lewd Gamer Paradise, and my own Testing/Dev server). PM me, and I can try to get you invites for that if you're interested. These can be useful for talking the business of erodev, or just getting feedback on various aspects of development.

Good luck!

Droid.