Playtest Agreement

Astraya is a game in development, made by one person. The playtest build is early and unfinished.

• Expect bugs, crashes, slow loading and odd balance.
• Moves, powers, numbers and whole features may change or disappear between builds. Values may change during the playtest.
• Your progress and the moves you forge may be reset.
• The game may be down at times, sometimes without warning.

The build is offered as it is, for testing. I can’t promise it will work on your computer, that it will always be available, or that anything you make in it will be kept.

Telling me what breaks, what confuses you and what feels wrong is the most useful thing you can do.

You must be 18 or older to join the waitlist and to play.

Why an age limit: the playtest collects your email and, if you choose to speak, your voice. Data-protection law in India, where most testers are, treats every minor as a child, and a small playtest has no way to check a parent’s consent.

One person per invite. Your access is for you alone, not for a family, a team or a stream audience. Please use your own email address and answer the signup questions honestly.

To play you need a PC or laptop (Windows, Mac or Linux) with a keyboard or a controller. Phones can read this site but cannot play.

I let people in a few at a time, in small batches picked by hand from the waitlist, to get a mix of machines and players. Being on the list does not guarantee a place.

When your batch opens, you get an email with your own way in: a personal link, or a code sent to your email address each time you sign in. Keep it to yourself.

Each tester is planned to have a daily allowance for VESPER, because every forge costs real money. When it runs out, the fight goes on: she keeps helping from what she already knows until the next day.

Online versus comes later, for pairs I invite.

Access can be revoked. I may pause or remove access if this agreement is broken, if access is shared, when a round of testing ends, or if the playtest has to stop. I will try to tell you why.

Astraya is small, and everyone in the playtest shares its servers. Please don’t:

• attack, overload or load-test the game’s servers, or try to get around its limits;
• scrape the game or this website, or reverse-engineer the servers and the services behind them;
• share, sell or give away your invite, link or sign-in code;
• use cheating tools, bots, or anything that changes the game or its network traffic;
• try to make VESPER say something hateful, sexual or cruel (strange requests are welcome, because that is testing; abuse is not);
• harass, threaten or insult other players in versus, or anywhere around the game.

Be kind in versus. Everyone here is testing something unfinished.

Found a weakness? Please tell me privately at hello@astrayagame.com instead of using it or showing it. Thank you.

If these rules are broken, I may remove access.

Now and then the game asks a few short questions, and there is always a way to report a problem. You can also write to me at any time.

When you send feedback, ideas or bug reports, you give me permission to use them to improve Astraya and to talk about its development. There is no payment for this, and the permission does not run out. You still own what you wrote.

Yes, please. You may stream the playtest, record clips and post screenshots.

• Say it is an early playtest build, so viewers know it is unfinished.
• Keep your invite, link and sign-in codes off screen, and don’t share access with viewers.
• If you find a security problem, tell me privately instead of showing it.

People who play in this playtest are Astraya’s Founding Testers.

As a thank-you, Founding Testers may receive a free Steam key, a thank-you in the game’s credits, or both.

That is a “may”, not a promise. There is no date and no price, and there is no guarantee that every tester gets a key or that Astraya reaches Steam.

Playtesting is voluntary and unpaid. You can stop at any time.

Astraya is made by one developer. AI is part of how it was made, and part of how it plays. This section says exactly where, and says plainly where I am not yet sure.

The pieces of a move are not invented. The AI puts each new move or power together from the game’s own fixed set of pieces (swings, powers and armour that already exist), and the game’s rules check it before you can use it. The AI cannot create new rules, damage numbers, animations or pictures.

This is everything the playtest collects about you: what, why, where it goes and how long it stays. Some of it begins only when you play, and some only during the playtest. Items marked Planned arrive with a coming build. If a build needs to collect something not listed here, this agreement gets a new version first.

The playtest does not collect your precise location, your contacts or any payment details. It never records you outside your taps, and it carries no advertising or ad tracking.

These companies help run the website and the game. Each receives only what its job needs, and handles it under its own terms.

I do not sell your data, and there are no ads. Most of these companies are based outside India, so your data may be handled in other countries.

• Playtest data is deleted or anonymised 12 months after the playtest ends.
• Your email stays on the waitlist until you unsubscribe.
• Much of it lasts far less. Your voice recording is not saved by the game at all, a forge result lasts two minutes, and connection stats last seven days.

Anonymised means every link to you is removed, so what is left can no longer be traced back to you.

You can ask for a copy of your data, a correction, or its deletion. Write to hello@astrayagame.com from the address you signed up with, and say which you want. I answer within 30 days. I may ask you to confirm from that address first, so that nobody else can ask for your data.

• To leave the waitlist, use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email.
• To leave the playtest, stop playing and ask me to delete your data.
• The microphone is optional: the game plays in full without it, and buttons cover forging, readying and recalling. Without it, none of your voice is sent.

This is version 1, effective 10 October 2026.

When the terms change, the version number goes up, and the game asks you to accept the new version before you play again. Small fixes, like typos, keep the same version.

If you don’t want to accept a new version, you can stop playing and ask me to delete your data.

Astraya is made by Saransh Mittal, a solo developer in India.

Questions about this agreement, your data or the playtest: hello@astrayagame.com.