Alpha Testers Needed for Masters Thesis Mission

[Aosys]

Hi all,

So I have a bit of an unusual request for the community. I'm currently nearing the end of my Master's degree, and need to complete my thesis before I can graduate. Being that I'm in a games program, I had to construct a level for user testing; since I'm very familiar with Darkradiant and didn't want to wrassle with Unity, I ended up building my level using TDM. After some preliminary user tests, I'm ready to begin a short iteration phase where I improve the level before final testing, and I thought I'd open my terrible tiny level up to the mod community for feedback from folks who are familiar with TDM and the stealth game genre.

My research specifically pertains to environmental storytelling, so that's what I'm aiming to do well. Any advice on improving performance would also be appreciated (my exterior is kind of a mess), as would advice on creating good-looking diegetic lighting that sufficiently highlights both important narrative elements and where to go to progress (especially for inexperienced players).

[joebarnin]

Sign me up!

[Cambridge Spy]

I'm always up for a new Fan Mission.

[Jedi_Wannabe]

Sounds like a wicked idea! I’d love to contribute time and feedback.

[s.urfer]

Fairly new to the concept, but would like to participate, please!

[acolyte6]

Sign me up too! Stuck in Sweden 2 more months, so I got nothing better to do :) 

[peter_spy]

It will be nice to see someone applying this design philosophy to a TDM map. I'm always up for fewer / shorter readables and more using what's the actual strength of the medium you work with.

[Shadow]

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[Aosys]

Thanks so much to everyone who's volunteered, I appreciate it a lot!

I'll go ahead and prepare a thread in the beta-testing forum 

[acolyte6]

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I hope you put a link here too, I'm fairly new to this forum, so finding stuff can be a bit slow...

 

[Dragofer]

@acolyte6 Here's where the alpha testing is taking place, it's only accessible to logged in users.