Development Stages

Development stages are the stages of software development, including game development.

= Pre-alpha = A game in pre-alpha stage is either not created yet, or is lacking a lot of functionality.

= Alpha = A game in alpha stage is generally finished, but developers are still improving it, and the game is very buggy and unstable.

= Beta = A game in beta stage has been briefly tested, and most following updates are bugs-related. The game is released to public for testing.

= Release Candidate (RC) = A game in RC stage is complete and released. The game might still need to be updated, so RCs are often numbered RC0 (never played), RC1, RC2, RC3, etc.