Omniary wrote: at least reach beta before you deci

If you read my old signature, you'd know this game is already beta.

Why must I be so nitpicky.

Glitch wrote:

Omniary wrote: at least reach beta before you deci

If you read my old signature, you'd know this game is already beta.

Why must I be so nitpicky.

Huh, I was always under the impression that Alpha was the stage where the game is still growing, and that Beta is the complete release (around v1.0 in this case).

Oh well, my mistake.

Regalis wrote:I don't know, maybe I should just keep making the B3D version and wait to see how the ports make progress. I guess the new content in the B3D version can be ported to the new one if any of the ports are successful.

Yeah, I'd just reccomend this honestly for now. We'll start posting screenshots soon, we're making progress and still chalking out what needs to be redone and how it will be done.

-Did you get that download message I sent you?? It still has that new "Item" you said you wanted. SCP-[REDACTED] will be done soon when I figure out how to stop the eyes from stretching when it [DATA EXPUNGED].

Juicy wrote:It's an alpha version, a beta version is a final version that just needs bug fixes and the current version isn't final (there's some new content being worked on); an alpha version may be public too.

Yeah, that's what I figured. *shrugs*

Mirocaine wrote:-Did you get that download message I sent you?? It still has that new "Item" you said you wanted. SCP-[REDACTED] will be done soon when I figure out how to stop the eyes from stretching when it [DATA EXPUNGED].

Yay, can't wait to speculate for more SCPs. I remember when you were posting about 049 on the Dev Topic #2 thread a while before 0.7. My suspicions were all too correct.

Alpha is testing among devs. When the public gets hold of it, it becomes a beta.

All this talk of alpha and beta releases are all well and good but that was before we had kickstarter and Minecraft. Minecraft showed us that releasing a game during alpha stages is actually quite profitable, and kickstarter fed this belief.

In other words, the definition of alpha and beta stages in game development is going to change rapidly over the next few years, thanks to the boatload of Indie games we have

InnocentSam wrote:All this talk of alpha and beta releases are all well and good but that was before we had kickstarter and Minecraft. Minecraft showed us that releasing a game during alpha stages is actually quite profitable, and kickstarter fed this belief.

In other words, the definition of alpha and beta stages in game development is going to change rapidly over the next few years, thanks to the boatload of Indie games we have

Yeah, Minecraft pretty much redefined 'Alpha' and 'Indev/In-Development'.

I guess some developers have different definitions for alpha/beta, but I've always thought that beta is a version with all the features of the finished game/software that just needs some bugfixes and maybe some minor polishing.

Anyway, I've been working on the map editor for the past few days and it's now functional. Now I just need to make it a bit more user-friendly and it's done.

I view Alpha as a bare-bones, playable format. Lots of bugs, missing features.

Beta is just a better version of alpha, with less bugs and less missing features.

I'd say Alpha is more or less something like a playable tech demo, like Among the Sleep, while Beta has most of the features planned to be in the full game.