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tirsdag, august 09, 2005

WikiAdventure Closed Beta Testing

Tonight WikiAdventure has been released for beta tested by a small hand picked group. Actually it was one person, but it sounded nice didn't it?

The beta testing took place over IM, and here's some highlight from the testing:
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[20:34:37] Clint: This'll take a while, I'm on dial-up :P
[20:34:57] Anders: dial-up!?!? o_O
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[20:38:24] Anders: What's your specs?
[20:39:12] Clint: PII 450, 128 MB RAM, ATI Rage Pro 2x 8MB
[20:40:00] Clint: Sad, huh? :P
[20:40:00] Anders: he he he... ehh... :|
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[20:43:42] Anders: Okay, first up - can you run it?
[20:43:46] Clint: 1 sec
[20:44:23] Clint: Uh, no
[20:44:26] Anders: Argh!
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[20:51:50] Clint: It works!
[20:51:54] Anders: Wohooo!
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[20:54:25] Anders: Now I think you're ready to go - start! :)
[20:54:31] Clint: k
[20:55:01] Anders: Still working?
[20:55:22] Clint: It crashed :(
[20:55:26] Anders: Do'h!
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[21:11:33] Clint: Ok, here goes...
[21:12:02] Anders: *fingers crossed*
[21:13:19] Clint: Getting further this time
[21:13:44] Clint: It's downloading fonts now
[21:13:53] Anders: That's strange... but good! :)
[21:13:58] Clint: Heh
[21:15:17] Clint: It's telling me "Click to continue" :D
[21:15:27] Anders: Yeah!
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[21:22:28] Clint: I want to make adventures for this thing already,
but I've already got too much on my plate as it is :S
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So there were a bit of trouble at first with some missing DLL's because he's running Windows 2000. A few DLL's were exchanged and that was fixed.
Now the game started up correctly, but crashed when it started downloading data.
We tried finding out what caused this problem, but then suddenly - probably caused my some divine interference - it worked like a charm!
I've just got a few things to add, and it's ready for a public beta! :)