Crashlands Beta Living Timeline

We're breathing down the neck of the Crashlands Beta and have a final list of things to burn through to get it ready. We thought it'd be fun to share the list openly with the community, and keep this doc updated at all times so you can see how far off we are from Beta testing.

Crossed off items are complete, those marked in Gold are currently in process. Cheer us on via twitter @bscotchshenani, and if you haven't gotten a BscotchID and applied for the beta, do so before the beta begins!

1. Finish Boss Stories @sam
2. Create Tundra Sidequests @sam
3. Create perk-requiring quest chains that feed from other games @sam
4. Final cutscene @sam @seth
5. Send cutscenes to FatBard for sounds/music @seth @sam
6. Re-read and edit entire story (final pass) @sam
7. Finalize game updates & tweaks @seth
8. Optimize map-building @seth
9. Redesign the included campaign file logic @seth @adam 
10. Update save syncing (new and pre-BscotchID saves should be cloudsaves) @seth
11. Design the beta feedback mechanism @all 
1. Build the web infrastructure @adam 
12. Figure out how to do beta on Steam @adam
13. Create Steam Achievements & Perks @adam
14. Figure out how to do beta on Testflight @seth
15. Figure out how to do an APK expansion, since Crashlands is just over 100MB. (Seth)
16. Determine number of testers and selection criteria
17. Determine how to announce the beta publicly, and to testers, and how we will interact with testers throughout @all
18. Prepare all beta materials and web infrastructure @adam
19. Design in-game UI elements for explaining BscotchID/purchase verification (platform-dependent) @all
1. Build web infrastructure for purchase verification @adam
2. Build in-game UI elements @seth 
20. Create Steam Coming Soon and other store pages @adam @sam
21. Playthrough for final round of balance / story tweaks / bug finding @all
22. Final optimizations for mobile @seth
23. Open up beta for players