AI Dungeon Environments & Becoming a Tester

AI Dungeon has dedicated environments for Production, Beta Testing, Alpha Testing, and Internal Testing. We created these environments to ensure the Production environment stays stable since the majority of you use it every day. We also wanted to create dedicated environments for gathering player feedback during each stage of the development process. Each environment has a specific purpose and audience.

Environments

Internal

Although code is written on the individual machines of our dev team, changes get pushed to an Internal Server so that our entire Latitude team can preview features & test fixes. This environment is updated many times a day as we work through our priorities.

Alpha

Once a new feature has been built according to our design, we then seek out player feedback. Alpha testing provides the first round of player feedback in the development process. New features from Internal get pushed to Alpha so they have access to test and provide feedback. This is often an iterative cycle, where feedback is given, new changes are developed on Internal and then pushed to Alpha again for further review.

All players are welcome to participate in Alpha testing by visiting alpha.aidungeon.com. If you use the Android or iOS mobile apps, you can switch to the Alpha environment by going to your Account Settings through the profile picture menu and then tapping on “Release Channel”. Here, you can switch between the different environments.

Beta

The next stage for product development is Beta testing, which is open to all AI Dungeon players. In Beta testing, we’re looking for additional feedback from players on whether or not new features are valuable. We also evaluate performance and stability since Beta is the first time our code will be exposed to a high volume of traffic. It’s not feasible for us to test every device and configuration internally, or to perfectly simulate production traffic and behavior, so Beta gives us a chance to assess whether there are issues we were unable to catch.

All players are welcome to participate in Beta testing by visiting beta.aidungeon.com. If you use the Android or iOS mobile apps, you can switch to the Beta environment by going to your Account Settings through the profile picture menu and then tapping on “Release Channel”. Here, you can switch between the different environments.

Production

Our Production environment is the most stable version of AI Dungeon. We only push new features to Production after they’ve been thoroughly reviewed in each of the previous environments. By default, all players are directed to the Production environment.

We love getting player feedback! We look for it and review it every day. Positive feedback helps us know we’re on the right track. Critical feedback motivates us to grow and shows us where we can improve. Please continue to share your feedback with us on our Discord server. We appreciate all you do for AI Dungeon and the community!

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AI Dungeon Environments & Becoming a Tester
Environments
Internal
Alpha
Beta
Production

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