Saturday, February 25, 2017

terminology - What is the difference between an alpha and a beta release?


What is the difference between an alpha and a beta release? I'm surprised this question hasn't been asked here before.



Answer



In traditional software engineering, Alpha releases will still be introducing new features, while Beta releases will see no new features, but rather polishing up the existing stuff.


However the current development environment in game dev is that both of these are simply "not complete yet", and alpha is generally just "less complete" than beta.


Beta releases will still see new features, while sometimes I'll see alphas that simply try and flesh out existing stuff. And even a few things that stay in alpha or beta forever.



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