Hearoism Beta Testing
Early limited beta
Hearoism is currently in a very limited, early private beta. If you would like to help test, please email me and I will add you when the game is stable enough to support more users.
All bugs reports and other feedback are of interest (email is good).
NOTE: all subscriptions are fake money. You can pick whatever tier you want and you will not be charged. If for some reason you are prompted for a username/password when making a purchase, it's your Apple ID login info.
Things that should work
All UI and Audio playback should be working well. Initial signing in should be trivial. Subscribing should be easy. Creating games and switching between them, changing voices, changing settings, and all menus and options and buttons should be working well. Switching to/from AirPods and your car should work. Please complain about any jank here.
Known major issues
The DM is incredibly under-developed. It does not know who you are or why you are here. It does not maintain coherence across scenes. It has virtually no story to go off of yet. It is fairly slow.
The sound library is extremely limited and they often play excessively or at inappropriate times. The voices don't sound great. Voice installation is annoying.
The end of turn detection is really bad. You will probably want to use the buttons for now.
Changing the allowed content settings does nothing. Please be nice to NPCs.
Current testing focus areas
- Please stress test signing in and out a bunch.
- Please try making some recordings and see how they sound.
Release Notes
- build-0.1-8 — 2026-07-21
- Reduce lag after the DM starts speaking (76% faster cue direction)
- Improve prosody quality (7-34% better on four new benchmarks)
- Miscellaneous minor bug fixes
- build-0.1-7 — 2026-07-18
- Switch to production backend.
- More accurate "can speak" determinations, e.g., to prevent animals or mindless creatures from talking (benchmark: 94.3% -> 98.4%).
- Better voice casting for character age (benchmark: 96.5% -> 99.3%).
- Better voice casting for androgynous characters.
- build-0.1-6 — 2026-07-13
- Better voice health description.
- Highlight speaker selection when volume constrained.
- More appropriate sound effects (benchmark: 49% → 96%).
- build-0.1-5 — 2026-07-09
- Expanded sound library from 3 → 38 inline sounds.
- Smarter suggestions for what voices to install.
- Clearer errors for devices that can't run speech analysis.
- Improved security and error telemetry.
- build-0.1-3 — 2026-06-30
- Simpler and easier Sign in with Apple flow.
- build-0.1-2 — 2026-06-27
- First release to testers.