And the Beta Testers Are...

When I selected beta testers for GBA4iOS, I wrote about how difficult it was to choose from several hundred applicants. While that was certainly true, it pales in comparison to this time. For this beta test, we expected another several hundred applicants, maybe even over a thousand, but these turned out to be severe underestimates. Less than 30 minutes after opening up submissions to beta test Delta, we had received over 150 responses, and less than a day later that number had soared to over 1000. So, how many applications did we receive after seven days?

10,165. Wow.

After an entire weekend of reading applications, we narrowed them down to 80 general testers and 40 press testers, for a total of 120 beta testers. Additionally, of those 80 general testers, seven submitted promotional artwork that will be used to promote Delta in the coming weeks. I could write more about how really, incredibly difficult (and long!) this process was, but since I think y’all just want to know who was chosen, I’ll skip all that.

So, ready to find out who was chosen to beta test Delta? Here they are!

Press

Sam Sheffer

Mike Wehner

Xavier Harding

Federico Viticci

John Voorhees

Dario Sepulveda

Will Klepper

Abdulaziz Khalid

Priscila Klopper Albuquerque

Guilherme William Neves Nascimento

Lucas Sacheto

Eduardo Pérez

Blasin Ree

Filip Brož

Marco Dengel

Mickael Bazoge

Shigemura Masato

Tiago Alves

Radu Ursache

Вячеслав Кокин

Luis Padilla

Dino Zambas

Zach Carson

Nic Kiernan

Mikhail Madnani

Campbell Bird

Carter Dotson

Filip Koroy

Joaquim Barbosa

Andrew OHara

James Darnell

Miguel Alvarado

Jacob Siegel

David Thomas Robinson

Taimur Asad

Nidhish Gokhale

Chaim Gartenberg

Charles Agnew

Ousmane Diarra

Brandon Butch

General

Eric Johnson

Sachin Mansukhani

James Thomson

Logan McGregor

Jack Decker

Justin Proulx

Jason Lachman

Bryan Anderson

Zain Khoja

Eytan Schulman

John Critchlow

Michael Zhang

Chris Armstrong-Cortez

Sam Hancock

Dominik Reichardt

Jason Tauriello

Crix Madine

Ashley Cummings

Jordan Richman

Alexandra Theresia Waldren

Lucas Schmitt

Will Lahke

Vittorio Picone

Matthew Waineo

Jeremy Hsu

Jesse Chand

Elia Baitel

Eamonn O’Hanlon

Rhys Morgan

Harlan Haskins

Monique Corrêa

Octavio Guillermo Reyes Rodríguez

Jon Whitney

Adrian Eves

Robert Petersen

Ryan Guidice

Victor Dorantes

Garrett Hinson

Dan Gregory

Daniel Miller

Dan Del Fuoco

Patrick Angle

James Stokes

Brandon Summers

Gavin Nord

Simone Massardo

Johannes Namupala

Marco Cancellieri

Jason Reehoff

Giorgio Mera

Fernando Fontecha

Sierra Grassman

Andres Lossada

Zach Ziccardi

Ryan Fluharty

Sebastian Alsina

Antonio Guerra

Dray Bryan

Erik Kocher

Dan Bennett

Keeton Feavel

Aaron Harpole

Alexander Tölke

Sophia Tung

Becky Hansmeyer

Zach Simone

Dallin Clinger

Blake Petrenchik

Tyler Livingston

Cody Bruner

Bronson Lane

Hayden Evans

Nathan Wallace

Guillermo Moran

Andrew Scott Stambaugh

Christopher Owen

Brad Lester

Josh Hrach

Manuel Auer

Jared Ebenstein

Promotional Artwork Winners

Dray Bryan

Justin Proulx

Dallin Clinger

Jeremy Hsu

Eamonn O’Hanlon

Christopher Owen

Octavio Guillermo Reyes Rodríguez

Congratulations to everyone who was chosen! We’ll reach out to all of you by email shortly, and we’ll also send the very first beta out later tonight. For those who weren’t selected, remember that Delta will be free for everyone when it is released, so you’ll still be able to enjoy all your favorite classic games at that time.

Sincere thanks to all of you that applied, as well as my fellow judges Caroline Moore, Maddie McCarthy, Grant Gliner, and Matias Franco, without whom this process would have been near-impossible. Finally, stay tuned for more info on Delta, as there is still plenty more I have yet to reveal!