» Thought on the launching of the online video strip poker beta version

The coding of our video strip poker game has taken much more time than expected. During the summer, a lot of new features has been added and tested. Many bugs have been fixed. The website design is being entirely reviewed and the new version should be soon published. I will give here a few words about the beta.

The release date is still unknown. We now have a backlog of work to deal with and the game will probably not being online before mid-october. We need more time to finalize some details and also to deploy the game on production servers. The beta will be open for everyone because we need several players available at the same time on a strip poker table. But we may limit simultaneous access to a hundreds to make sure our servers can properly handle the load.

This beta will of course aims at fixing the last bug which will inevitably appears when going online and also at letting players give us a feedback on a few important points:

• Gameplay: is the game fun to play with? Is the game easy to begin with for a new comer? Is the game rythm efficient? Do the interactive videos appear at the right time?
• Interface: is the design clear? Does the game lack information on the players action? Is the action interface ergonomic?
• Performance: does the game properly run without hanging the web browser? Are videos playing smoothly?
• Videos quality: do videos load quickly and without problems? Is the compression level acceptable? Aren't clips too repetitive? Are "teasing" videos and strip long enough?

Of course this list is not exhaustive and any well argued critic will be considered with care.

We will set up a forum or a forum-like solution to let you freely give us your feedback. We are also working on an automated bug reporting sytem (of course totally anonymous) to help us fix the bugs you might encounter.

Only two or three girls will be available for this version. The others will come very quickly after the release of the strip poker stable version. For test purpose this shall be enough and of course these opponents will be free available for free for every players.

During all the beta stage, the game will be entirely free. You will just have to visit a page on the website to recredit new chips for free on your account. But when the final strip poker game will be released, every account will be set with the same starting chip amount. This way, it will be fair for everyone and you'll still have a chance to play for free if you keep on winning ;).

Many technical choices have been made in order to ease a deployment on as many platform as possible. Indeed the game is intended to run on any desktop computer (Windows, Mac, Linux) and on tablet and cellphones (Android, iOS). However, the very small screen of cellphones makes them hard to support immediately, thus the beta version won't officially run on these devices but they will soon be supported afterwards.

We really hope you will give us insightful feedback on the beta. We are entering the last stage before going online, stay tuned!