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.
Nothing. Closed beta will work out many of the issues and in a few weeks they will begin inviting open beta testers. See, we waited all that time just to enter our email, now we get to wait another 2 weeks or so before we get to do anything else.
Imagine AG2 and AG3 as metals. AG2 is a sheet of iron. It's bold, has a nice layout, basic, and is tasteful for everyone. It gets the job done and has a couple capabilities.
AG3 is a sheet of silver tungsten steel. It's beautiful, sharp, compact with goodness, woos those that look, and has many uses and capabilities. It can also conduct electricity.
Vance, chances are great that you'll get in. We were thinking of sending out invite codes in batches of 100 users at a time, and we haven't even had 100 users yet because we haven't publicized the beta very much yet. I think the blog post just went up, dunno about our main twitter feed.
thisisnotanalt, I removed your post, because we prefer that you don't post your Email address here. You can say you used a gmail account, but since our forums are crawled by spammers and search engines, we don't want you to get flooded with real spam etc
