Introversion Software requires a small number of people to beta test its new game Darwinia and help make it a finished and polished product. Anybody can apply to be a beta tester, and Introversion will select from the applicants a group of able minded individuals with the right attitude and the right hardware to make the test go as smoothly as possible.

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Beta Phase 1

Introversion Software will select around a hundred individuals from the applicants as phase 1 beta testers. We will send a beta demo to those testers and phase 1 will begin. The intention of phase 1 is to find and fix all hardware compatability bugs with the game. Hence, only one level of the game will be provided, and the level will not be entirely finished. Fresh applicants may be selected if we are having difficulty resolving particular hardware problems, and if they have the appropriate hardware to test our fixes to those problems.

Phase 1 beta testers who leak the beta demo we provide them will be removed from the test immediately, and will be banned from all future Introversion forums, projects and beta tests. Big men with sticks will be sent to their houses and their kneecaps will be broken.

Beta Phase 2

Phase 2 will begin around a month after phase 1. Around a quarter of the phase 1 beta testers will be selected and upgraded to phase 2 beta testers, based on the quality of their bug reporting, and our trust in the individual. Phase 2 beta testers will be required to sign legally binding Non Disclosure Agreements with Introversion Software before they can continue. Then beta versions of the full game will be sent out to those phase 2 beta testers, for immediate testing.

In addition, another hundred applicants will be added to phase 1 to test the demo level. The best testers from that group will be upgraded to phase 2 at a later stage. This process will continue until we are satisfied the full game has received enough testing from enough people.

Phase 2 will last approximately two months. Phase 2 beta testers who complete the testing phase will receive a complimentary copy of the finished game.