One of Josh's first memories is of playing Quake 2 on the family computer when he was much too young to be doing that, and he's been irreparably game-brained ever since. His writing has been featured in Vice, Fanbyte, and the Financial Times.
Pop quiz, hotshot: How do you install a beta version of a game on Steam? That's right, you right-click the game you want to em-beta-fy, hit properties, go down to betas, potentially enter some kind of complex password that unlocks the branch you want, then select the correct build from a drop-down box.
"Previously, accessing these alternative build branches has been fairly obscure, done by players through the Steam 'settings' panel for a game," says Valve."However, new Steamworks APIs now allow developers to offer players this choice from within the game itself." Plus, if you've ever gotten deep into an early access game, you'll know the sheer pain that can come from a sudden update making mincemeat of your saves, forcing you to restart from scratch or—if you're me—wander off forever, never to return to the game again. As Valve puts it,"trouble can arise when players with dozens or hundreds of hours of playtime find that their save file no longer works with the latest version of the game.
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