Beta-Testing Gwabs

So, over a year and a half ago, you may remember that I was interested in a new Mortal Kombat style fighting game that took place on your desktop with cartoon like characters called Gwabs. Even though it wasn't due out for a couple months, I preordered it to reserve my spot and get a chance to beta test it while helping the start-up company Cambrian House.

Well, much later than expected, Gwabs has entered private beta. Thursday of last week, I was invited to be one of the first beta testers. I honestly don't mind waiting so long for this. Not only is it a great game from a company with a great business idea, but the opportunity is coming at a time where I can afford to spend lots of time doing testing and bugging the creators with ideas.

There are a few problems with the game, but that is to be expected since it's just starting up. All of the characters look a lot like 42 from Hitman so far and there are only two missions which can only be completed multiple times if you keep hitting the retry button. The website is only partially functional, leaving out a lot of the features that I'm incredibly eager to have released. But that's okay. These are things that I'm just impatient for.

What I really want is for there to be more people online so I can test it out better. The most people I've ever seen online at once is three which is indicative of just how private this Beta is. They told us to let them know if we had friends who'd also like to become operators and join the private beta, but unfortunately, my friends are the wrong type of gamers or are just plain too busy right now. I really want to play with some of my friends.

If you want to get a feel for Gwabs, watch this preview. A lot of it is accurate except for the character specific powers, but that's just because those characters haven't been released yet, I have a feeling.