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Title: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on August 08, 2011, 12:54:44 PM
As many of you already know, your old pal Shakes is an aspiring indie games developer. Well, today I've come one step closer.

Go see my brand-spanking new website: Stingyhat Games.com (http://www.stingyhatgames.com/). It's pretty sparse right now and has a cool looking placeholder mech in the corner that has nothing to do with any of the games I am making now or will ever make, but still it's good.

Now, for an even more importanter announcement: The upcoming beta test of my new game Necrofrenzy.

I need to find as many brave souls as possible to put my game through the grinder. As a beta tester your job will be to find out if/where my game is crashing (and tell me about it), to find out if any aspect of the game is confusing for you/hard to figure out how to play (and tell me about it), and to see if the game is fun/crap/too hard (and tell me about it).

Now, I don't expect everyone to cover all of these different aspects. I expect more advanced users to be the ones trying to break my game and tell me how they made it crash. However, you PC gaming novices out there are just as important to me as the experts, or maybe even more important. It is up to you beautiful noobs to tell me what parts of the game are confusing or too hard.

The beta will last a month and will have four phases (one phase per week). Those accepted into the beta on phase one will get to play all the way through to the release candidate.

Of course, all beta testers will get special mention in the credits section of the game.

What is Necrofrenzy? WHY DON'T YOU KNOW THIS ALREADY! Here is some copy/pasted info from my site:
Necrofrenzy

Necrofrenzy is a commercial game coming soon (September 2011). In Necrofrenzy you play a lovestruck little apprentice necromancer who, in order to get to the lovely but very sheltered princess, must force his way through all of the King's forces. Luckily, being a necromancer, he brought friends. The stinky, worm-infested kind.

Necrofrenzy is a light arcade real-time strategy game.


In addition to all that great stuff, you get to experience all-original custom artwork by yours truly.

REQUIREMENTS: Necrofrenzy is a 2D game and, as such, shouldn't require much of a rig to play. Chances are that if your computer can view the 360df webby, it should be able to handle Necrofrenzy just fine.

Comment below if you are interested, and sometime soon I'll send you a PM with more details. Be sure to tell me what level of PC gamer you are, from complete noob to super expert.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: GamerMan316 on August 08, 2011, 01:01:15 PM
I'm not at home enough at the moment to try the beta otherwise i'd gladly participate, good luck with everything though.   :)
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: nCogNeato on August 08, 2011, 03:05:42 PM
Fantastic, Shakes!

Sign me up!    ;D
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: nCogNeato on August 08, 2011, 03:26:23 PM
I'm also sending out some love to the twitterverse.  Hope you don't mind.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on August 08, 2011, 03:47:02 PM
I'm doing an absolutely ass job on the getting-the-word-out public relations front, so any help is appreciated. Twitter it like no tomorrow.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: nCogNeato on August 08, 2011, 03:58:38 PM
I'm doing an absolutely ass job on the getting-the-word-out public relations front, so any help is appreciated. Twitter it like no tomorrow.

http://twitter.com/#!/360DF/status/100646895998877696

http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=197284663666226&id=140454339374251
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: GamerMan316 on August 08, 2011, 04:13:12 PM
Didn't realise we had a Twitter page, i'm now following.   :)
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: nCogNeato on August 08, 2011, 04:21:12 PM
Didn't realise we had a Twitter page, i'm now following.   :)

Nice.

We have a lot of pages.  http://www.360fahrenheit.com/forum/index.php?topic=2358.0   ;)
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on August 08, 2011, 04:54:48 PM
I didn't know we did twitter or facebook either.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: nCogNeato on August 08, 2011, 05:39:44 PM
Savages.   #)   ;D
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: zerosum on August 08, 2011, 05:57:21 PM
I didn't know we did twitter or facebook either.

What's this twitter you speak of...? Facebook...??  ;)

BTW - sign me up Shakes! I have limited experience with RTS games, haven't hit one up since the Command & Conquer: Generals and Starcraft days.  :P
But if I can help in any way, I'm game.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Failed on August 08, 2011, 06:52:12 PM
SIgn me up Shakes, if it's breakable i'll break it!
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: sambo on August 09, 2011, 05:32:50 AM
Shakes, I wish I could guarantee I would have the time to take part, But I can't. :(
I'll watch it grow with interst but mate, and hope you all the best with it.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on August 10, 2011, 04:15:51 PM
No problem Sambo, thanks for the good wishes.

@Failed: Somehow I knew I could count on you to try and break my game.

I'm still about a week from formalizing everything and being ready to send out official invites. I'll keep everyone posted, and thanks to everyone for their interest.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: nCogNeato on August 10, 2011, 04:21:09 PM
If you need more testers, I can send out a newsletter to all members (including the ones that don't frequent the forums).

Let me know.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Hells_JJ on August 11, 2011, 05:32:57 PM
i would love to give it a go I'm really good about bitching about controlls and camera angels lol
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: TaraJayne on August 12, 2011, 11:09:34 AM
This is the very reason I joined again. Put me down Shakes.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on August 12, 2011, 11:46:08 AM
Thanks Hells and Tara.

Just a reminder, I'll send all the relevant beta information out next week.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Sload on August 12, 2011, 01:56:06 PM
I would like to try it out but I guess it's Windows only?
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on August 12, 2011, 01:59:48 PM
I would like to try it out but I guess it's Windows only?

Yeah I forgot to mention that. It is Windows only unfortunately.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Sload on August 12, 2011, 04:37:18 PM
I would like to try it out but I guess it's Windows only?

Yeah I forgot to mention that. It is Windows only unfortunately.

Well sign me up anyway, might be able to run it through Wine (http://www.winehq.org/). It supports quite a lot of games so you never know.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on August 17, 2011, 12:16:01 PM
I would like to try it out but I guess it's Windows only?

Yeah I forgot to mention that. It is Windows only unfortunately.

Well sign me up anyway, might be able to run it through Wine (http://www.winehq.org/). It supports quite a lot of games so you never know.

It'll be interesting to find out, at any rate.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Failed on August 17, 2011, 12:34:24 PM
You could then use it as a selling point
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: AnalogReflex on August 18, 2011, 11:36:13 AM
Need any more help testing out the game?
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on August 22, 2011, 10:53:13 AM
Blame this one on the IRS and FAFSA.

I'm pushing the start of the Necrofrenzy beta out for another week. That means I'll send invites out on the 26th, and the beta will start on the 29th.

Sorry for the delay, but these things happen I suppose.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: nCogNeato on August 22, 2011, 11:30:54 AM
'The Man' always trying to hold us down.   >:(
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on August 22, 2011, 02:30:42 PM
I know. Just 'cuz I have three or six Taiwanese undocumented immigrants living in my basement making socks doesn't make me a "tax evader", or "human trafficker". As if the Feds don't have anything else to do.

And when their sock prices go way up they better not come crying to me!
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: nCogNeato on August 22, 2011, 02:59:05 PM
Truth.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Failed on August 22, 2011, 05:01:36 PM
QFT! shakes needs 'home security' to keep the feds out.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on August 23, 2011, 12:28:58 PM
10 spots left open in the beta. Last chance for preferred seating before I start gathering up strangers in odd indie gaming forums to help fill the vacancies.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Failed on August 23, 2011, 01:35:40 PM
pick me .... again, i have multiple personalities
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on August 26, 2011, 02:38:53 PM
I sent the first wave out today. Remember, phase 1 testers get access to all phases of the beta, phase 2 get access to 2-up, phase 3 to 3-up, etc...

If I pick you for a later phase please don't be offended. I need to space access out like this because it is the only way to ensure people are testing what I need them to test, when I need them to test it.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on August 30, 2011, 11:36:22 AM
New beta 1 for all you phase 1 testers is out today. And this time it should actually run on somebody's machine (I actually bothered to test it on another machine this time. Fool me once...)!

Read about it here (http://nfbeta.freeforums.org/new-beta-v1-0-now-with-more-actually-working-t13.html) or just log in and download the new installer.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Hells_JJ on September 09, 2011, 02:55:47 AM
How goes the beta so far are you running into a lot of problems and I was wondering where you hopeing for this to be for console or pc if pc are you doing controller support cause I can bust out my pc controller if need be
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Windedprism on September 09, 2011, 08:33:35 AM
I didn't even know this was your game Shakes, thought it was just another pc beta when I saw the headline on the front page.

If you're still testing I'd love to give it a shot, where do I sign up?

Oh does it work on windows 7?
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on September 09, 2011, 02:19:12 PM
First, some new answers to recent questions: This is a PC game with mouse/keyboard support. No joystick support is currently planned. Yes, it will work with Windows 7.

Sign up just by telling me you are interesting. I'll give you all the details you need when it is time to release the next build of the beta.

In other news:

My school semester started back up last week and I VASTLY underestimated how hard it was going to be to go to school full time and steadily continue developing my game. Consequently, I am way behind now.

So here is my revised schedule:

Sunday 9-11-11 will mark the start of Phase 2 of the beta with a brand new build filled with 3 more levels and new minions/baddies.

I'm going to make Phase 2 last two weeks now instead of just one in order to give myself enough time to actually get stuff done. By the end of Phase 2 I hope to have the majority of the game completed (no where near the case at the moment, which is why I'm shuffling the schedule). After that, the phases should continue as planned with a new phase every week.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Windedprism on September 09, 2011, 02:59:34 PM
Yeah well up for that Shakes, let us know.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on September 11, 2011, 05:20:15 PM
Phase 2 is live. Phase 1 people, log in is the same as before...

Phase 2 people... Well, I was expecting to have a log of all the messages I sent out to be in my sent messages folder on the site, but apparently it didn't save any of the messages except one. So now I'm not sure who I had told were going to be in phase 2. I'm going to try and remember who is what phase and sent the message out, but if I miss you just let me know and I'll get you set up.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Mr Moshi Moshi on September 13, 2011, 07:42:36 AM
Add me if you need another tester Shakes, whichever phase.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Hells_JJ on September 14, 2011, 04:21:19 PM
i put some stuff up at NFbeta page i also have a video that goes with it if you can think of a way for me to get it to you  ;)
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Windedprism on September 14, 2011, 05:22:06 PM
I will get around to this I promise! very messy folders atm, tidying mayhem!

If I asked windows to defrag the drives it would probably crash microsoft itself its that bad!  :P
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on September 15, 2011, 05:31:39 PM
Sounds cool Windy. I have a small patch on the way, should be out tomorrow. It should completely (fingers crossed) fix obstacles, add a new spell, and introduce some particle effects into the game.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Failed on September 17, 2011, 06:25:54 AM
I'm back Shakes, will have a blast tonight inbetween Halo Week Challenges and Gears 2.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: AnalogReflex on September 20, 2011, 12:11:03 PM
Sorry to say but it looks like I'm going to have to excuse myself from the beta, my home PC is dead at the moment and is resistant to all I am trying to get it back up and running  :(
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on September 20, 2011, 12:57:56 PM
'sall good Dfuse. Good luck on getting it back up to running speed.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: AnalogReflex on September 20, 2011, 03:43:15 PM
Thanks. The virus really f*d up my PC. Thought I could use a backup image that I made w/ Acronis but that didn't work. Then I reinstalled windows and all seemed ok, until a reboot after installing drivers put me into a perrenial loop of reboots when it reaches the Windows logo screen. Good thing my hair is short or I'd be pulling it out!  :P
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on September 20, 2011, 05:42:56 PM
Weird. You'd think that a clean install of Windows would cure anything.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on October 04, 2011, 03:37:23 PM
Well yeah, I took a little impromptu break there for a couple of weeks.

But now I'm back on track, and getting things gameside back into shape.

Expect a new version October 9th. I'm also going to open the beta up on the same day, so no matter what your phase is you will be able to download and play the beta. You can also share the download link with your friends if you want. The only thing that I ask is that you don't upload the game files or installer to any other site. That is to say, if you want the beta you have to get it from my website and nowhere else (unless I approve it first).

I'm going with an open beta because, as you have probably noticed by now, I'm really bad at getting updates out and going to school at the same time. I'm never going to meet those weekly deadlines that I had previously set, and I don't want to keep you guys waiting around. You folks who have participated in the beta so far have been great, and I can't thank you enough/apologize enough for not getting my crap together in a timely fashion.

P.S.: All people who I had previously assigned to specific phases (including phase 3 and 4 people who still haven't played the beta yet) will still get their names in the credits. With enough bug reporting/beta participation, people just coming on board with the open beta can also get their names in the credits.
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Sload on June 14, 2012, 08:19:40 PM
What happened to this??
Title: Re: Important Handshakes Announcement!
Post by: Handshakes on June 15, 2012, 07:08:04 PM
I got pwned by school.

I'll get back to this soon hopefully. You'll hear it here first if it happens.