Super Mario War ALPHA

The core gameplay works already (but still has bugs), so I was thinking about an open alpha testing.
Since it's far from complete, I would like to ask only developers and brave souls to try it (seriously).

The main goals are:
- test that the game works on various platforms
- test if there's significant lag
- test if there are game-crashing bugs
- test if it's more fun than poking a monkey with a stick

I'd prefer:
- video recordings of the gameplay, the best would be to see all player's screen
- on crashes, detailed description (or a core dump) on what happened

Right now,
- the game is playable (yes, really!)
- sometimes stuff become out of sync
- the multiplayer menu is incomplete and full of placeholders, but can launch a simple game

If you're interested, I'm usually available on IRC, mostly afternoon (GMT+2).

To get the latest Windows version:

a) Build it yourself (recommended): source

b) Use one of the AppVeyor builds (may not work)

Open the build page
If the build is not green (= red or yellow), the latest version is not ready yet, visit the page again later, when the bug gets fixed.
Select the "x86, SDL2=true" build
Click on Artifacts
Download smw.exe
Download and extract this pack of DLLs.
Download and extract data.zip. This is important, if you get "empty maps dir" or something, that's because SMW looks for it in the 'data' directory.
Run smw.exe. If it doesn't work, try another build.

To get the latest Linux/*nix version:

Build the source, Luke. Don't forget to unzip data.zip before starting the game.

About the lobby server

The smw-server is a mathchmaking/lobby server, its only task is to manage game rooms. Since the game has no direct connect mode yet, you'll need to join to a lobby server first. Note that no gameplay data goes through the lobby server, and a lobby server can host multiple rooms and can handle many players. To allow connection to a lobby server, you have to properly set up your ports (see Tech info). THIS IS IMPORTANT. Then, you can join by adding the IP

Technical information

SMW and smw-server uses UDP ports 12521-12522. These ports have to be open on (forwarded to) the machine running smw-server, but should be not necessary for "regular" players.