muggle95 ([personal profile] muggle95) wrote in [community profile] ficinabox 2021-09-02 10:41 pm (UTC)

Interactive media beta offer

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

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