Woo! We are now accepting applications for joining the Card Hunter Beta RIGHT HERE.
What do you get by doing this? Once you sign up, you’ll be in the queue for the Beta. If you’re in the queue, you will be eligible to be picked at some time in some way. Picking may involve pieces of paper with names written on them and a barrel or it may be something slightly less random.
If you sign up, we’ll also make sure we send you email updates as we reach significant milestones with the game – like launching it. We also might send you other game information updates along the way. We promise not to spam you or give your contact information away to anyone else.
And, when will Beta start? That’s a little more complex to answer.
If you watched or played the PAX demo, you know that our core battle system is in good shape, but before we launch a Beta ,we have some important things that need to be done:
- We’re going to polish up the first part of the main game campaign. Right now we have all of the Beta adventures completed but we need to balance and polish them. There’s no point having a bunch of you test the game and tell us that we need to fix or tune stuff that we already knew we needed to fix or tune.
- We have to do some work on multi-player, including spicing up the lobby and improving our match-making.
- We have to put in a system where we can actually sell some stuff and make money out of the game.
- We’re going to test our ability to handle load. If we invite a hundred Beta testers in and our server just falls over, we won’t be getting much use out of you. Currently we’re in an analysis phase where we’re writing a bunch of bots to stress test the server and see if we need to do any additional work on it.
- We’re adding some systems to add replay value to our adventures – the quest system that we’ve been talking about a bit on the forums.
How long is all this stuff going to take? Somewhere between “not long” and “a while”… I think you can see why, because some of those tasks require us to investigate what we need to do, as well as actually doing it. If you’ve been following us for a while, you know that we don’t like to give dates that we can’t hit. So we won’t.
Please post any other questions you have about Beta here and I’ll try to answer them!
October 11th, 2012 at 9:55 pm
Awesome!
October 11th, 2012 at 9:58 pm
Oh I’m excited. Been waiting for this since this site went up.
October 11th, 2012 at 9:58 pm
It feels good to be signed for BETA, even though I’m not playing the game yet. π
October 11th, 2012 at 10:05 pm
been waiting for this after every blog update. π
October 11th, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Awesome. Loved seeing this and meeting you guys at PAX, looking forward to trying the game. π
October 11th, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Awesome! Really hope I get in.
October 11th, 2012 at 10:11 pm
By the way, if you already signed up at PAX you DON’T need to sign up again – we already have your application!
October 11th, 2012 at 10:13 pm
Wooohooo, got tired of mtg, looking forward to new challenges
October 11th, 2012 at 10:15 pm
From what I’ve seen of the videos this looks like its going to be a lot of fun …
it kinda reminds me of heroquest from a long long long time ago, but obviously much much more than that
when they release will we be able to play with the level designer?
October 11th, 2012 at 10:16 pm
So excited! I’ve enjoyed watching the progress of the game. Can’t wait to try it out! Keep up the good work!
October 11th, 2012 at 10:16 pm
Whoops, sorry! I signed up both here now and at PAX. I guess I am just too excited. π
October 11th, 2012 at 10:24 pm
Well, I think there were a few people with handwriting so bad that I’m not sure we’re going to be able to read it off of the signup. You know who you are (but we might not!). If you’re one of those people, THEN it’s OK to sign up twice.
October 11th, 2012 at 10:32 pm
Yeah! Beta is around the corner!
October 11th, 2012 at 10:38 pm
I am so excited by this news! I cant wait to get my hands on the beta and start to work ^_^
October 11th, 2012 at 10:38 pm
I am looking forward a longstanding relationship with this game! Dont be unloving and say you dont care, because the bond we share is true. Please pick me for your beta tester and I will woo you for eternity or Nov 12, which ever comes first!
October 11th, 2012 at 11:13 pm
Finally a signup! Hopefully we’ll see the beta soon as well, I’ve been looking forward to it for well almost a year now.
October 11th, 2012 at 11:15 pm
Jolly good, I was really considering tracking you all down at work in sydney and badgering you all for an update.
No muffin bribes happening now!
October 11th, 2012 at 11:34 pm
Awesome!
October 11th, 2012 at 11:41 pm
Been hoping this would happen soon.
October 11th, 2012 at 11:54 pm
I found this from TB!
October 12th, 2012 at 12:00 am
Just signed up! Man, I’ve been waiting two years for this. Totally looking forward to playing!
October 12th, 2012 at 12:13 am
I almost knocked over my coffee as my hand spasmed to click the link! What cardboard god should I pray to to get selected?
October 12th, 2012 at 2:29 am
Want. So bad. Been following for a lengthy amount of time. Hope I get picked π
October 12th, 2012 at 2:33 am
Never before has being in a queue been so thrilling.
October 12th, 2012 at 5:11 am
Finally, after the long wait! w00t cardhunter! π
October 12th, 2012 at 5:13 am
Hope to test this game and share with many ideas π
October 12th, 2012 at 5:35 am
Great news! Thanks for that…
October 12th, 2012 at 7:58 am
Oh wow, why did i get online so late today? Well, hopefully not too far behind in the queue!
October 12th, 2012 at 7:58 am
In case that we should have received a confirmation email: I did not get mine.
October 12th, 2012 at 8:16 am
There’s no confirmation email yet. Will work on sending something out to everyone on the list.
October 12th, 2012 at 10:39 am
Congratulations on this. I followed this events long time ago, from early beginings. Hope we in gaming world of this category will count time like something…. Before Card Hunter Beta …. and after ….. (Hopefully as soon as You can provide it to us !!)
October 12th, 2012 at 11:20 am
This is excellent news.
October 12th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
im soo psyked! π
October 12th, 2012 at 1:05 pm
AWESOME!!!!. I expect to be choice. I am gonna make all of what in my power to help to make this game more awesome!!!. Thanks from Argentina.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:07 pm
Yay!! Beta! I am so happy and I can”t wait to play the game
October 12th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
I get that we’ll probably not see the first round of e-mails for a while as it looks like you’ve still a bit of work before you’re ready to start the beta proper. Still do you guys have a window for when you’ll be sending out the first round of e-mails? I know this is like super early to ask this question.
October 12th, 2012 at 4:43 pm
“Thanks! We’ll see you in the game” Ha! You promised! Now you have to give me a beta key! xD
No realy. Cant way to try this game out!
October 12th, 2012 at 7:49 pm
betabetabetabetabetabetabetabeta
October 13th, 2012 at 8:54 am
Yaaaaay i want this game π
October 13th, 2012 at 3:24 pm
A friend showed me this game today, and it looks amazing. Regardless of whether I get in to beta or not, I’ll be looking forward to the release of this game. After signing up for the forums, though, I’ve noticed the system seems to have issues with hotmail, so I ended up signing up for beta twice with a better-working email. Hopefully that doesn’t cause any issues.
October 13th, 2012 at 3:36 pm
haha, everyone’s super excited! You’ve set the cat amongst the pigeons now π
October 13th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
The forum seems unable to send confirmation emails to hotmail, would this affect the beta application process for those who entered with hotmail ?
October 13th, 2012 at 10:34 pm
Awesome. Game looked really promising to me from what I saw in TotalBiscuits video. I’ve been longing for an actual turn based rpg battle game, so I’m looking forward to this quite a bit.
October 13th, 2012 at 11:28 pm
We’re looking into a mailing service for sending out invites and updates so hopefully that won’t have the same spam issues that the forum sign-ups from Hotmail do.
October 14th, 2012 at 2:35 am
So long since i wanted a game this badly, cant wait to kill my Magicish addiction. Hope you nail the game team.
October 15th, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Finally! Can’t wait to play this game, beta or not! I’m so glad the game is coming along nicely. And the PAX demo was awesome. Keep it up!
October 15th, 2012 at 2:07 pm
Oh , man I can’t wait . I wanna play this now !
October 15th, 2012 at 11:29 pm
Whats this I’m away from the internet for a few days and this happens?! Can’t wait!
October 16th, 2012 at 9:39 am
Yay!
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October 16th, 2012 at 8:16 pm
It’d be neat if having posted here much before the PAX-related brouhaha would grant one an elevated chance of Beta pickage. (;
October 16th, 2012 at 9:28 pm
great news !
October 16th, 2012 at 10:42 pm
Soooooooo excited. This looks like a game I could play for years and I JUST CANNOT WAIT.
October 17th, 2012 at 5:19 pm
Eagerly anticipating this fantastic looking game! Please keep your code monkeys well fed and speed this along π
October 17th, 2012 at 8:55 pm
/jig
October 18th, 2012 at 8:13 am
The confirmation emails are working for hotmail π
October 18th, 2012 at 5:09 pm
I can also confirm that confirmation emails to hotmail work.
Looking forward to help make this game a hit!
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October 27th, 2012 at 6:56 pm
I’m sooo ready for this!
December 31st, 2012 at 9:44 am
After one year of wait, we can wait well still one can !
April 13th, 2013 at 10:24 am
Huzzah! Hopefully my invite will arrive before my annual leave begins!
April 14th, 2013 at 6:23 am
Wish I could play. :{
ps;
I hope the starter decks are plenty.
I also hope they are 5~ bucks each, give or take. I would not mind buying a couple.