Your AO3 username: muggle95 What fandoms? any, as long as canon knowledge isn't required. Willing to read a page or two of wiki if necessary. What kind of betaing? This beta offer is for any* interactive medium (logic grid puzzles, crochet chart or pattern, online dress up game, etc) - if you want to make sure that the puzzle is solveable or the pattern can be followed by someone else, or similar before submitting it as a gift. Anything you won't beta? *I haven't knit since I was nine or ten, but if you want to make sure your knitting pattern/chart is accessible to absolute beginners I can give it a whirl Additionally, if I offer to beta regular writing gifts, I'll make a separate post. I'm not offering that sort of beta reading in this post. I will beta choose-your-own-adventure style fic if requested but I'll comment only on the interactive part/ease of use rather than specific comments on the writing/style (this option may require temporary co-authorship of your final ao3 work so i can test the links between chapters. I won't change anything and I'll remove myself after) For recipes: no spirits/cocktails (wine in entree sauces, or beer in bread/breading is fine) Expected availability and turnaround time? Availability: no time is particularly better or worse than any other time. I can predictably get more review done on weekends than weekdays, but it averages out. However I probably won't be available the last 2-3 days before the main fiab deadline. I'll be available again after that deadline. Turnaround:
For logic grid puzzles, turnaround a day or two, regardless of size. Feedback will come in the form of highlighting ambiguities or impossible situations, or identifying an unsolveable grid. Assuming the puzzle was solveable as desired, I can also provide an estimate of difficulty (how it would be rated when included in a magazine or app of other logic grid puzzles)
For dress up games: turnaround 2-3 days. Feedback will come in the form of: was it easy to use (yes/no) and could I make anything strange and undesirable happen? (eg shirt rendered too far to the side, so the sleeve is on the character's stomach and their arm is bare)
For choose-your-own-adventure works, turnaround ~1 week, depending on length and complexity. Possibly up to 10 days for very long or very complex examples. Feedback will include commentary on ease of use and identifying story-loops (ie literally going back to a chapter you've already visited - can omit this if you aren't trying to avoid them). Feedback will not include comments on plot/spag/style of the story parts unless otherwise negotiated.
For yarn crafts, (crochet, knitting) it depends on the size of the finished product. turnaround expect at least one day per 300 stitches. Feedback will come in the form of: notes on anywhere in the pattern I got confused and photos of the finished product (i already have yarn in many colors and polyfill, but i may substitute similar colors depending on what your pattern calls for, so that i don't have to buy anything new for the purpose of beta-ing. For example, I don't have twelve shades of brown for different skin tones, so amigurumi of human characters is likely to be adjusted to beige or medium-brown skin, with no in between and nothing darker. This is really a check of does your pattern turn out the expected shape when someone else follows it, and may not be color-perfect)
recipes: turnaround ~one week because I'll need time to work around family meal plans and grocery runs. No cocktails. Otherwise I can test anything unless it requires absurdly expensive ingredients (eg whole black truffles), custom molds (i have basic ones for cupcakes/muffins and mini donuts), or decoration that requires a piping bag with specific tips (i can do simple piping in the form of a ziploc bag with the corner cut off). Feedback will include commentary on ease of following instructions and whether it turned out as expected (warning, I live at high altitude and will follow your recipe to the letter instead of adapting times/temperatures or anything else. Risen breads/cakes/etc and microwaved products may turn out a little different than at sea level.
other interactive media I've forgotten is in the tagset: ask and I'll come up with an estimate for turnaround
Contact? Email muggle @ schmockermountain.rocks Discord @ muggle#1346 Matrix @ mschmocker:glitchiest.town gmail address available if necessary for sharing through google drive. Discord or Matrix preferred
Interactive media beta offer
What fandoms? any, as long as canon knowledge isn't required. Willing to read a page or two of wiki if necessary.
What kind of betaing? This beta offer is for any* interactive medium (logic grid puzzles, crochet chart or pattern, online dress up game, etc) - if you want to make sure that the puzzle is solveable or the pattern can be followed by someone else, or similar before submitting it as a gift.
Anything you won't beta? *I haven't knit since I was nine or ten, but if you want to make sure your knitting pattern/chart is accessible to absolute beginners I can give it a whirl
Additionally, if I offer to beta regular writing gifts, I'll make a separate post. I'm not offering that sort of beta reading in this post.
I will beta choose-your-own-adventure style fic if requested but I'll comment only on the interactive part/ease of use rather than specific comments on the writing/style (this option may require temporary co-authorship of your final ao3 work so i can test the links between chapters. I won't change anything and I'll remove myself after)
For recipes: no spirits/cocktails (wine in entree sauces, or beer in bread/breading is fine)
Expected availability and turnaround time?
Availability: no time is particularly better or worse than any other time. I can predictably get more review done on weekends than weekdays, but it averages out. However I probably won't be available the last 2-3 days before the main fiab deadline. I'll be available again after that deadline.
Turnaround:
Contact? Email muggle @ schmockermountain.rocks
Discord @ muggle#1346
Matrix @ mschmocker:glitchiest.town
gmail address available if necessary for sharing through google drive.
Discord or Matrix preferred