Where do you guys get feedback / testers

[invalidcharacter]

Self-explanatory title. I'm making a free game that I hope to take in a Free Cities direction and I want to make it highly modifiable / expandable by others, but for that I need to know if the core system works for people. Where do you guys usually recruit testers?

 

[Loqic]

I've heard about this site called ehh.. F95 or something, maybe you can try over there?

 

[invalidcharacter]

Guess I'll use the recruitment section, based on the posts currently on there it didn't really look like the right place for it though.

 

[polywog]

Guess I'll use the recruitment section, based on the posts currently on there it didn't really look like the right place for it though.

recruitment, or an anonymous site where people are free to give honest opinions

this site isn't really geared for constructive criticism

 

[chronis]

You can try lemmasoft for partners or fiverr for outsourcing a little bit of this and that.

 

[Droid Productions]

Set up a discord, link it to your game when it's released. Be active in the discord, chat with people, share content, take feedback and don't get defensive about critique. That's where I'm getting my best responses, and so many testers and spelling checks.

 

[invalidcharacter]

Discord works great for my non-h programming projects and I even have a decent following there, which is exactly why I sort of was trying to avoid using it - it doesn't let you have multiple accounts logged in simultaneously and I don't want to leak my main discord ID. I might still go ahead with it and use the browser client, not sure.

 

[Droid Productions]

Discord works great for my non-h programming projects and I even have a decent following there, which is exactly why I sort of was trying to avoid using it - it doesn't let you have multiple accounts logged in simultaneously and I don't want to leak my main discord ID. I might still go ahead with it and use the browser client, not sure.

Yeah, that's what I do as well, for exactly the same reason

 

[invalidcharacter]

Yeah, that's what I do as well, for exactly the same reason

Alright I guess that's what I'll do, soft launch the game somewhere and try to get some discord feedback. Cheers.

 

[Droid Productions]

Alright I guess that's what I'll do, soft launch the game somewhere and try to get some discord feedback. Cheers.

I actually had great luck with launching it here. But it does mean you risk spoiling your big splash, since this is by far the biggest community. You could try 'soft launching' in a development thread, that usually gets left alone from the bulk of users until it's promoted to the front screen.

 

[Carpe Stultus]

Self-explanatory title. I'm making a free game that I hope to take in a Free Cities direction and I want to make it highly modifiable / expandable by others, but for that I need to know if the core system works for people. Where do you guys usually recruit testers?

Join some of the bigger discords that often pop up here on f95, use a different ID (preferably with your "dev" name) and ask people if they want to test your game. The smartest thing to do would be talking to them a bit before so you can be sure that you don't have the usual suspects as testers.

 

[Jinnai]

Yeah, that's what I do as well, for exactly the same reason

Might be a bit late to the party here, but just for convenience: You can launch Discord and the Discord Public Test Build at the same time with two different accounts.