Open Call for Beta Testers

[Joel Billings]

After publishing 30 wargames covering battles of the 20th century, Gary Grigsby finally decided to design a game set earlier in history. You can always count on Gary to come up with some unique design ideas, and here's your chance to be a part of Gary's first pre-20th century design.

After being in alpha testing since January, we're now ready to move on to beta testing. We're looking for some new testers that are willing to put in time to learn and test the game during the beta stage, which should last between 3 to 6 months. We have a core group of about a half dozen alpha testers but would like to add to that. Although there are a few additional features we hope to sneak in at the end, testers will be focused on learning the game so they can identify bugs and assist us in balancing the victory conditions.

WBTS is a monthly turn based game with area movement covering the entire American Civil War. You can play either side against the AI or via Play by Email. Its interface is a descendent of the one used in World at War. This game is more complicated than World at War, and has many unique rules that will be new to most wargamers. This is not an easy game to learn how to play well, however we do have a good first draft of the manual and 16 video tutorials (almost an hour of video) that will help you learn the game.

If you are interested in becoming a Beta tester, please email karlisr@matrixgames.com. Please list your experience with computer and board wargames, especially those covering the Civil War. Please indicate roughly how much time you can devote to testing on average each week. We're hoping to sign up new testers by early next week.

[Erik Rutins]

Hi everyone,

Just a small change - please e-mail karlisr@matrixgames.com if you'd like to help test Gary Grigsby's War Between the States. Please also note in your e-mails what your hardware specs are and why you'd like to help us test this game.

Thanks!

- Erik

[Joel Billings]

For those of you that emailed 2by3, no worries. I've sent your emails along to Karlis. For specs, you need to have at least 512MB of RAM and a stand alone video card (not a built in Intel card) with at least 32MB of memory (128MB is better).

[Gatto]

Hi,
I've send my application mail for being one of the beta testers team in the 4 oct. Could I know if the happy few have been already choosen? Can I still hope for a call? The wait is exhausting...[:(]
Thanks
Silvio Melani (Gatto)

[PyleDriver]

Be patient, they get busy at matrix games, It took me 8 working days. If you want in, and meet some the basic questions, you'll most likely get it. We've had quite a roll off of testers over the last 8 months. Out of 24 we started with were down to 8, and about 4 are active every day. But we went through some rough Alpha testing. As Joel stated, this game has a high learning curve, but with the new tutorials it should speed up the learning process alot. It will be worth the wait, it's a great game...

[8D]
Jon

[Joel Billings]

ORIGINAL: Gatto

Hi,
I've send my application mail for being one of the beta testers team in the 4 oct. Could I know if the happy few have been already choosen? Can I still hope for a call? The wait is exhausting...[:(]
Thanks
Silvio Melani (Gatto)

I did not get an email from you at 2by3. Did you send it to the 2by3 or the karlisr email address? If you tried to send it to 2by3, I suggest you resend it but this time send it to karlisr@matrixgames.com. I passed the emails I got at 2by3 onto Karlis and he sent out the Non-Disclosure Agreements late last week. I'm just waiting to hear back that the NDA's have been returned in order to get the new testers started.

[Erik Rutins]

ORIGINAL: Gatto
I've send my application mail for being one of the beta testers team in the 4 oct. Could I know if the happy few have been already choosen? Can I still hope for a call? The wait is exhausting...[:(]

I'm sure you're fine - that was Thursday, this is Monday - if you haven't heard back yet, I expect you will today. If you haven't heard back today, please re-send your application in case it was not received.

[Gatto]

I'm sure you're fine - that was Thursday, this is Monday - if you haven't heard back yet, I expect you will today. If you haven't heard back today, please re-send your application in case it was not received.
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Thanks Erik
for your quick and encouraging answer. I will wait for the events untill tomorow. If it will be necessary I will send my application again.
Thanks again very much
Sil[:)]

[ArticFire]

resent mine as well in case the first time it was lost for some reason as I've not heard back either.

[Gatto]

Hello!
Any news about the beginning of the beta testing? I fret with impatience...[8|]

[Joel Billings]

Karlis has sent out all the NDA agreements and we're just waiting for testers to return them and come into the dev forum as they get set up.

[Gatto]

Hello!
I've sent my NDA agreement by fax the 10/10/2007. I would like to know if You've received it without problems. I've writte one or two mails to Karlis about that but I didn't receive any answer. I hope I'm not (because of a missed fax) the cause of this delay... Forgive my insistence, but I'm very proud to have been chosen for this job and I wish to avoid the unfortunate event of losing it because of a stupid dud fax.
Thanks for Your attention and best regards
Silvio Melani (Gatto)

[rjh1971]

Silvio when you log in have you checked if you have available the WBTS development forum, it's at the bottom of all others, if so your NDA got through and was aproved.
Rafael

[tgb]

Are all the beta testers slots full?

[Joel Billings]

Yes, we've got enough for now, thanks.