Archive for the ‘beta’ Category.

The Early-Access Beta is Open!

I made a link for you:  http://www.spyparty.com/beta Oh man am I tired.

Human Loadtest Tonight, Monday June 3, 10pm PDT!

Update:  The loadtest was a success, thanks everybody!  It was fun to hang out and chat, and a bunch of other indie game developers showed up as well, including Davey Wreden (Stanley Parable), Alexander Bruce (Antichamber), and David Rosen (Overgrowth), which made it in to a bit of an indie lovefest loadtest!  Fun seemed to be […]

Loadtesting for Open Beta, Part 4: Done optimizing the lobbyserver!

Check out Loadtesting for Open Beta, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 to read the previous installments of this epic tale! It’s been a while since the last update in this series, sorry about that!  At the end of Part 3, I mentioned the SimCity launch giving me pause about my goal of testing […]

One Year of SpyParty

Wow, SpyParty has the best beta testers in the world!  Not only are they really patient while they’re waiting for invites, then they’re patient while finding good repros for bugs, then more patient while waiting for fixes for all the bugs they find, and they’re patient and super helpful mentoring new players…but they’re also hilarious […]

Loadtesting for Open Beta, Part 3

Read Loadtesting for Open Beta, Part 1 and Part 2 to catch up on the spine-tingling story so far! When we last left our hero, our differential state update change was a resounding success and reduced the network bandwidth utilization from 98% to 3%, and it looked like we could move on to optimizing the […]