My friend and former coworker, whom I will call “The H”, went indie sometime back to work on his own RTS game, dubbed Orcs vs. Martians.

Well, I am impressed to tell you that he has reached the Beta milestone on his game.  I don’t think you can download it yet, or at least I didn’t see the download link, but perhaps he will have an open beta at some point.

For those not well-versed in software development, a software release usually goes through several phases:

  1. Development (most of the code is written during this phase)
  2. Alpha (all main features are complete, first testing begins, refinement and bug fixes)
  3. Beta (could be one or more Beta phases, more testing to flush out all bad bugs)
  4. Release candidate (could be many of them, each one could potentially go out the door)
  5. Ship it!

I got to  play the alpha and look forward to seeing the progress that he has made.  An RTS game is an ambitious genre for an independent (indie) game developer to take on as his first project, but the H has done so.  8)

Share:
  • Facebook