The Slay the Princess Alpha Starts Tomorrow

EDIT2: The last edit seemed to remove the link to the google form — the link's been reattached.

EDIT: Have to bump the build by a day, keys should go out tomorrow morning (Saturday the 14th, Eastern time. Sorry about that!)

Hey folks!

Tony here with some very exciting news! A big thanks to each and every one of you for sticking by us while we've been hard at working finishing Slay the Princess.

We're going to start the first wave of alpha testing TOMORROW, and you get to be a part of it!

A few notes on how this is going to work:

1. We're going to be managing this alpha through Steam — if you don't have a Steam Account, it should be pretty easy to make one: https://store.steampowered.com/join

While the full game will release on other platforms, we want to spend as much time polishing the game over the next week as possible, so in terms of logistics, keeping the test build on Steam is the most efficient use of our time.

2. The build will be distributed via password protected builds on a beta branch. You'll need a key to activate that build — to get your key, please fill out the Google form attached to this post. You'll get your get at some point before testing starts, and we'll make another post on Patreon with the password as well as instructions for enabling a beta branch. These keys will only work until the evening before launch!

3. We want to avoid spoilers getting out before the game launches, so please don't publicly post or share anything about the build! If you want to talk about it with other players before release, you can join our discord server, which has specific channels for testers. If you want access to those channels, we have an integration between Patreon and our Discord that will automatically give you access to those parts of the community.

You can also join the Discord with this link, but once you're in, please use the Patreon integration to get set up with your role: discord.gg/blacktabbygames

And here's the setup for the integration: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/212052266-Getting-Discord-access

4. Tomorrow's build will have some routes locked off while we finish the tail end of implementation. The routes that will definitely be available tomorrow are:

Adversary
Beast
Tower
Nightmare
Stranger
Damsel

5. If you run into any bugs, please report them via the appropriate channels on our Discord! There'll be instructions posted server-side tomorrow.

Thank you so much for supporting us, and we're both so excited to share what we've been working on!

Cheers,
Tony