{"id":244,"date":"2007-07-05T04:09:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T08:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2007-07-05T04:09:47","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T08:09:47","slug":"trying-to-find-testers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/07\/05\/trying-to-find-testers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to find testers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI&#8217;m trying to find more testers for <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.galacticmelee.com\">Galactic Melee<\/a>.  Originally, I was going to go with a small team of like 10 guys.  But what happens is someone will check in once a day or so to see if someone else is online.  Since this kind of game is totally multiplayer, there&#8217;s nothing to do with nobody else around, so a few minutes later they leave.  As a ball-park estimate I need about 100 testers such that at any given time someone is likely enough to find enough players to stick around.  Since my map is so large it&#8217;s not worthwhile unless there&#8217;s really 8 or more guys online.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I have maybe 10-20 testers actively looking to play.  So today I did a bit of marketing and tried to hit some game review sites for a news link.  If I can just get one good link that will solve the problem.<\/p>\n<p>I need to reach a critical threshold of playerbase and awareness to launch.  After that point word of mouth will take care of the rest of my marketing.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to find more testers for Galactic Melee. Originally, I was going to go with a small team of like 10 guys. But what happens is someone will check in once a day or so to see if someone else is online. Since this kind of game is totally multiplayer, there&#8217;s nothing to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}