Chris Hecker's new espionage game about subtle behavior, performance, perception, and deception.
Archive for the ‘playtests’ Category.
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 […]
Last Thursday we did a small playtest, the second so far in the Early-Access Beta! This time it was Rachel, Lauren, Ian, and me, and we played and chatted (and restarted after crashes) for a little over 3 hours. As it should, the playtest generated a ton of tasks, but this time I actually fixed […]
Late Sunday night, I was looking at the lobby server logs, and saw a login from “rachel” but no logout. Uh oh, I thought, this must be a bug, since with only 9 people invited into the Early-Access Beta so far, the chance of actually finding another person in the lobby without making a pre-arranged […]
I still do not have my $14.26 from PayPal. But, I have fixed most of the bugs that Jonathan Blow—the first official SpyParty Early-Access Beta invitee—found, so I guess I’m not going to wait for PayPal1 and hope things are working now. There have been a lot of questions here on the blog, on Twitter, […]
