The Chronicles of Stuffed Guys

Who could have thought? This longest journey does finally come to an end.

10 minutes ago I’ve posted a beta version of Factory Nova on a closed forum for our beta testers.

We currently accept everyone interested in taking part in the beta cycle of the product. Factory Nova should be in beta for around 2 months according to our plans. Around the beginning of August 2006 the final 1.0 version should be released.

Here is what you need to do to become a beta tester:

1. Register on our forums if you haven’t already done so.

2. Send me (user “Sergey”) a private message with a request to become a part of the Factory Beta Team.

3. After a short period you will be added to a proper members group on our forums and will get access to a closed Factory Nova Beta forum where you will be able to download the product, post your thoughts, ideas and of course bug reports.

Please note that we are in a GMT +4 timezone and I will have to give you the access to the beta forum manually. This means that after you will send a private message to me, you might need to wait for some hours before you will get the access.

PS. Just in case

You can start the countdown now. We are finishing the translation of the Factory Nova interface and doing a bunch of small but needed things, like creating a web-based installation wizard. But generally the beta is ready.

Traditionally, we have very long holidays in May in this country. So this delays things a bit, but not for long. As I’ve wrote in the title of this post — two weeks and a beta should be announced.

Thanks for bearing with us all this time.