Chris Hecker's new espionage game about subtle behavior, performance, perception, and deception.
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One of the best things about finally having regular players in your game’s beta is you get to watch the server logs for bugs, or just snoop on your players chatting with each other before and after games. In fact, this is so addictive, and you learn so much about how your game really works […]
This is the Welcome post for the SpyParty Early-Access Beta forums, including the tutorial video I recorded last night, which will hopefully help the complete newbs I’m about to invite in from getting frustrated (and shot). Welcome to the SpyParty Early-Access Beta! This welcome post is going to be a living document, which is to say I’m probably going […]
I just wrote this post for the Bugs subforum on the Early-Access Beta site. I figured you all would be interested in reading it, since you’re all going to be invited into the beta soon.1 Finding and reporting bugs is a learnable skill, and you don’t have to be a programmer or even a particularly […]
I decided at pretty close to the last possible minute to have a small “thank you” party for the first set of SpyParty beta playtesters, and I invited some friends from the press who have been covering the game for a while. Scheduling things during the evening at a big tradeshow like GDC is basically […]
Update: If you ended up here looking for the open beta, I have no idea why wordpress is sending you here when it should be sending you here. Sorry, and I’m trying to figure it out! So, I’m motoring along through my beta todo lists,1 and I start to investigate a bug Rachel […]
