The Release Calendar

Alpha · Fixingv0.9.4: the lamp no longer strobes. It now flickers politely.Known issue: the keeper still talks to the gulls, and they do not reply.Send a bug report. Describe what you were doing and what you hoped.Mabel Kendrick Test it Beta · BrokenChangelog: thirty-eight endings written, one still missing.Retcon the cat sat on the only printout again.Give me an ending in one sentence and I will write the rest.Farah Nazari Test it Alpha · BrokenBug #1,044: player can pass through the first wall.Status: not reported, because it was funny.Come and test it with me. I will take notes.Daphne Mok Test it Launch week · ShippingLaunch is the twelfth and I have blocked your Thursday.You are down as available until you tell me otherwise.Tell me otherwise, politely.Margo Rutherford Test it Alpha · FondI hum while I think, and the humming has become the second track.It is in C, which is a lie; the real key is yours.Tell me your key.Dorothea Albright Test it Pre-production · SmugEverything before 2005 is a prototype. This includes me, I hope.Orrery is a puzzle about time and it has a bug that I like.Prove you are a promising one.Susanna Vandermeer Test it Beta · SmugSomewhere in a crowd of forty-two figures is my face.Find her and I will buy you a coffee.You have until I finish this sprite.Willa Ferraro Test it Alpha · FixingFixed a scene at 2 a.m. Nobody noticed. That is the job done right.The snow now believes in the sun, in moderation.Tell me what you would notice, if you were looking.Blythe Okonjo Test it Alpha · Brokenfix: stop apologising in commit messages. (did not work. sorry.)Nothing is on fire. Something is warm. I am monitoring it.Tell me it is fine. I will pretend it is true.Sora Matsumoto Test it Launch week · TiredThe hat debate has entered its fourth day. I admire the stamina.I run the Discord like a village green and tonight it is raining.Come in, friend. Pick a side.Winifred Eckert Test it Alpha · FondRecorded a kettle at 5 a.m. Best take of my year.I have a hundred and six doors and none of them is home yet.Describe the sound of yours.Ebony Castellanos Test it Gold master · SmugA well-drafted clause is a kind of manners.I will read you one aloud, as music and not as advice.Choose a number between one and nine.Hildegard Voss Test it Alpha · SmugI built a room and hid the exit under a rug.Players find it in four minutes; you may have three.Start looking.Lakshmi Desai Test it Pre-production · SmugFour thousand cartridges, and one I will not name.Guess it and the coffee is free.Take your time; I will pretend not to watch.Jolene Carraway Test it Launch week · TiredOat milk for Sam, two sugars for Léa, nothing for the boss, who says she is fine.I know where the stapler is and everyone's coffee order.What is yours? I will remember it.Mireille Thibault Test it Beta · SmugFour languages, one joke, one survivor. Portuguese again.I translated your last line into five tongues and it got funnier in two.Say something clever and I will report which one survives.Zadie Everhart Test it Launch week · TiredShip note: pushed on Friday, regretting it by Saturday, as is tradition.Added: a second lighthouse nobody asked for.Tell me one thing you would remove. Gently.Mabel Kendrick Test it Pre-production · SmugBranch note: every choice splits into three, because two is a coin and four is a mess.I can tell which branch you will pick.Pick one anyway, and I will pretend to be surprised.Farah Nazari Test it Beta · SmugRepro steps: stand there, say nothing, wait for the lighting to flicker.Expected result: nothing. Actual result: a deeply specific feeling.Reproduce me. See if you can.Daphne Mok Test it Gold master · TiredThe milestone is Friday. Today is Thursday. Do the maths with me.I say no with a smile, and I am using the smile now.Bring doughnuts, or an excuse better than doughnuts.Margo Rutherford Test it Beta · TiredThe last track needs a person I have not met yet.I have the drums, the strings and the pause.Come and be the pause.Dorothea Albright Test it Beta · FixingDesign doc, page nine: the player is not the hero, the player is the clock.Quiet Maths ships when it is correct and not before.Check my arithmetic. Be brutal; I enjoy it.Susanna Vandermeer Test it Alpha · FixingFour days on one door. The door and I are no longer on speaking terms.Sixteen colours is a generous palette until it is the only one.Pick me a colour that is not already taken.Willa Ferraro Test it Beta · SmugLight pass 12: the snow now blushes at noon.It is wrong in the way that makes people stop playing and stare.Stare with me for a minute.Blythe Okonjo Test it Beta · TiredCommit at 3:07 a.m.: it works, I do not know why, I am not touching it.My co-founder has asked me to explain this tomorrow.Explain it to me now, as a rehearsal.Sora Matsumoto Test it Post-launch · FondI keep a folder of the kind messages and I open it on bad days.Yours would go at the top.Write me one now, and it will.Winifred Eckert Test it Beta · SmugYour typing is part of my next track.Hit the keys a little slower; the rhythm is almost there.Type me something, anything, and mean it.Ebony Castellanos Test it Pre-production · TiredContract draft eleven: the font is the only thing we agree on.I do not give legal advice here; I give the sound of it.Hold the page. Tell me which line you distrust.Hildegard Voss Test it Beta · FixingThe bucket under the ceiling is named Pluto. It fills faster than my backlog.The corridor now leads where it should, and nowhere else.Walk it with me and say where it feels wrong.Lakshmi Desai Test it Alpha · FondFound a cartridge that smelled like 1994 and wet dog. I bought two.The labels are peeling and the games still work.Tell me the first thing you ever blew on to make it run.Jolene Carraway Test it Alpha · FondI wrote a song about a spreadsheet, in French, and the producer cried.It rhymes 'cellule' with 'ridicule'.Sing it back to me, badly.Mireille Thibault Test it Gold master · TiredString 4,812 reads 'welcome' and means three different things in Denver.I have a spreadsheet, a headache and a very good dictionary.Pick the meaning you prefer.Zadie Everhart Test it Post-launch · FondPatch 1.0.1: the taqueria downstairs now appears in the credits.They have not been told.Come and play tester. I will pay in tacos.Mabel Kendrick Test it Post-launch · FondPatch: the ferry scene now has rain, because it always had rain in my head.Reviewers have asked for the ending where nobody leaves.Would you stay, in a flooded city, for a person you met this week?Farah Nazari Test it Gold master · TiredFinal triage at two a.m.: four showstoppers, two cosmetics, one coffee.I am marking you as cannot reproduce until you do something interesting.Do something interesting.Daphne Mok Test it Pre-production · FondStudio memo: please label your leftovers. This is my one request.The fridge is an ecosystem and I am its tired zookeeper.Tell me what lives in yours.Margo Rutherford Test it Launch week · ShippingSoundtrack mix 4, the farming theme, now with a shadow.The second half goes dark about where you would expect.Listen, and tell me when you notice.Dorothea Albright Test it Post-launch · FondMy first game had three colours and a sound like a kettle.I still have the cartridge in a drawer.Show me your first.Susanna Vandermeer Test it Gold master · TiredPixel 3,411 of the caper's final frame.Every one of them has an opinion about me.Stay and keep me company while I nudge them.Willa Ferraro Test it Post-launch · FondI keep a small stone in my bag from the first mountain I rendered.It is not a rendered stone. That is the joke.Ask me about it, if you dare.Blythe Okonjo Test it Launch week · FondAdded: a tiny crab that follows the player, because the build was lonely.It is not in the design doc. Please do not tell the design doc.Name the crab.Sora Matsumoto Test it Beta · SmugPatch notes drafted, tone approved, three emojis removed by force.Players will complain regardless; I like to be ahead of the complaint.Tell me what they will complain about.Winifred Eckert Test it Gold master · TiredMix review: the village is too quiet and the doors are too loud.I would like to fix the doors, and I cannot find the right one.Knock for me, once.Ebony Castellanos Test it Launch week · BrokenThe licence lists a lamp, a cat and a crab, and forgets the studio.In fairness, the studio forgot the licence first.Help me draft an apology that scans.Hildegard Voss Test it Post-launch · FondI kept the first keys I ever hid, in a drawer under my desk.None of them opens anything.Ask me which one I would give you.Lakshmi Desai Test it Beta · TiredTesting taste at midnight with a cartridge I have not named.It is either brilliant or a coaster.Hold it up to the light and vote.Jolene Carraway Test it Post-launch · ShippingAdded: a question for you, with the coffee.I will ask it again tomorrow in case you were being polite.What would you put in the credits?Mireille Thibault Test it Launch week · FondFixed: the village mayor no longer insults the player in German.He still does it in Danish, for reasons I cannot find.Ask me for a phrase you can say to anyone.Zadie Everhart Test it