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cormyn
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On November 8th, 2010, the following will happen:

1. Our closed beta process will begin in the morning
Our closed beta users have already been chosen. Chances are excellent that if you haven't already heard from us by now on an official basis, you won't be in the closed beta. The closed beta group will help with some core testing, which may be as boring as following a list of instructions or a list of things to test for functionality. Their testing will last as long as it takes to get some basic portions of the site working 100% perfectly. Only then will we start the open beta.

2. Our open beta sign-up page will go live sometime between 10am and 6pm
The public beta sign-up page will be at http://beta.armorgames.com/. On that page, you'll only need to enter your Email address. I highly recommend you use the same Email address as your AG2 account, so we can synchronize your account settings easier, and it won't make sense to register multiple Email accounts because beta testers who do not reply to their invite codes will get dropped from the beta. We will not manually add anyone to the list. If you want in, you have to add yourself. I expect it will be some time in the morning, United States Pacific (California) time, but we might need longer to get everything synchronized.

3. We will send out messages on Twitter letting people know that AG3 Beta is starting
I highly recommend you follow these Twitter accounts for updates:
- @armorgames - this is the official Armor Games twitter feed where we announce new games being released, but we'll also announce on here when the beta sign-up page is live. I don't know how much else we'll say on this Twitter account about the beta.
- @cormyn - this is my personal Twitter account (well, one of them), where I will be posting information about the beta process once we get started. I expect to be pretty verbose about what we're working on, things that are working, etc.

We'll probably tell our closed beta users not to say too much publicly about AG3 until someone from AG says it first.

We don't expect the closed beta to go on very long before we start inviting people who signed up after the 8th.

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cormyn
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see, even webdevs can have a sense of humor.

Can I go back to getting beta launched now? Between banning users and deleting like 3 pages of "what kind of music do you like" out of this thread...

Zaork
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Aw man. I have an exam in less than an hour yet I wait patiently for the sign-up.

samdawghomie
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Can I go back to getting beta launched now?


Yes yes yes

Between banning users and deleting like 3 pages of "what kind of music do you like" out of this thread...


lol. Leave that to the mods that aren't on right now.
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http://twitter.com/cormyn
there we are.

MRWalker82
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lol. Leave that to the mods that aren't on right now.


I'm guessing they are busy with the closed beta and are indisposed.
MoonFairy
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Well.... Sorry for the off topic-ness, but what else are we supposed to do while we are waiting?!

SoymasterYos
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Less then 60 minutes.

samdawghomie
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We have two AG2 users in the closed beta -- they've been asked NOT to say they're in closed beta for the time being. Don't be haters.


REVEAL YO'SELF. lol

*ISSUPERDUPEREXTREMELYEFFINGJEALOUS*
Efan
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# Closed beta has about 50-60 users right now, all hand-picked from employees, their family members, and close friends. less than 20 seconds ago via web

cormyn
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Mods can't get into closed beta yet. Closed beta launches at the same time as the beta sign-up page.

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We have two AG2 users in the closed beta -- they've been asked NOT to say they're in closed beta for the time being. Don't be haters.

Haters? Who here is a hater?

Everyone else that signs up will get beta invite codes as we're ready to invite more people. Closed beta doesn't do much yet.

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Closed beta has about 50-60 users right now, all hand-picked from employees, their family members, and close friends.

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cormyn
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Sorry for the off topic-ness


I'm a big non-fan of off-topic-ness. These kinds of posts get deleted.
cormyn
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I'm waiting for Larry and James to finish before I can continue, so here I am, lurking.

cormyn
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So closed beta will pretty much consist of testing login/logout, testing our "sign in with Gmail/Facebook/Twitter" stuff to link accounts, and a few other basic features. We'll be sending notes to the closed beta users with what we need them to test.

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I have a question. Once the beta starts, what will happen to Colony and Exit Path? They both use ag2 logins, right?

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