{"id":294,"date":"2010-02-11T20:21:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T02:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2010-02-11T20:21:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T02:21:35","slug":"the-galcon-fusion-beta-testers-rocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/11\/the-galcon-fusion-beta-testers-rocked\/","title":{"rendered":"The Galcon Fusion beta testers rocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.galcon.com\/fusion\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-295\" title=\"Galcon Fusion has arrived.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fusion-poster2-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Galcon Fusion has arrived.\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fusion-poster2-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fusion-poster2.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Yay, it\u2019s finally here! Check out <a href='http:\/\/www.galcon.com\/fusion\/'>Galcon Fusion<\/a> today! We\u2019ve got a free demo and it works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Steam! It features some crazy nice hi-res graphics and soundtrack. And epic multi-player battles like you\u2019ve never seen \u2018em before! Have fun!&#8221; &lt;&#8211; marketing blurb \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Okay, for some dev thoughts.  Man, it was a long week!  Adding the &#8220;demo&#8221; feature to the build was a ton of work.  And then doing all that other &#8216;stuff&#8217; that sort of comes up.  I think the one serious lesson I&#8217;ve learned in this whole process is that beta-testers are awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Really awesome.  I had about 50 people who I passed out 10 builds of the game to over the past 3 months.  Some of these people put in several dozen hours of play time.  All this was a huge help for me, as this was my first desktop &#8216;3D&#8217; game, so I had a lot of learning to do in terms of graphics capabilities.  As in, I was able to get the game to run on my computer which is a pretty nice MacBook Pro .. but not everyone else&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The beta tester feedback was huge, I was able to get the game running on old PPC macs, various linux netbooks, and who knows what else .. as long as it had a somewhat reasonable 3D card.  I changed the memory requirement for graphics from about 200 MB down to < 64MB.  Without any noticeable reduction in graphics quality even in HD video modes.  In fact, that reduction changed the loading time on my computer from 5-8 seconds down to about 1 second :)\n\nAnyway, I think I'm going to take a nap.  It's been a long week, and I really appreciate everyone who helped me get this game put together.  Give it a whirl, and thank the beta testers!\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Yay, it\u2019s finally here! Check out Galcon Fusion today! We\u2019ve got a free demo and it works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Steam! It features some crazy nice hi-res graphics and soundtrack. And epic multi-player battles like you\u2019ve never seen \u2018em before! Have fun!&#8221; &lt;&#8211; marketing blurb \ud83d\ude09 Okay, for some dev thoughts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,20,19,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs","category-development","category-galcon","category-gamedev","category-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}