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Old 02/02/2013, 05:20 pm   #127
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Originally Posted by Lambonius View Post
Do you even know what an alpha build is? If they don't have one yet, it means they don't have anything programmed.
That's not necessarily the case. An alpha build is simply a work-in-progress build that isn't robust enough to be considered beta (the latter of which, refers to a build that is feature complete (or nearly feature complete), but still has bugs that need to be ironed out).

A completely playable product can still be branded alpha. Take a look at ResidualVM for example, you could completely play through Grim Fandango with it for over a year without any crashes while it was still in alpha stage (it stayed in alpha simply because it had many glitches and some of the program-specific features didn't work quite right).
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