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Runoff is on TestFlight. The game is done — ten circuits, four riders, head-to-head racing over your own Wi-Fi — and iPhone is the platform it was built on, so this is not a question of whether it runs. What it has never had is other people's hands and other people's phones. Two minutes of your time gets you the whole game, free, before it reaches the App Store.

How to join

Everything happens inside Apple's TestFlight. There is no form here, no email to give us, and no code to wait for — the invitation link is public and admits anyone who taps it.

Two minutes Get the build

1. Install TestFlight. Apple's own app, free, and the only way an iPhone can run a pre-release build. If you already have it, skip to the next step. Get TestFlight
2. Open the invitation. Tap this on the phone itself — on a desktop it will only show you a page telling you to. TestFlight opens, shows Runoff: Pipe League — that is Runoff — and offers to install it. Join the Runoff beta
3. Install and turn the phone sideways. Runoff is landscape-only and needs iOS 15 or later. It works on iPad too.

Before you start

• Getting out of a run. There is no Esc key on a phone, so the bottom-centre strip of the screen is the way out: a tap resets your board, a press-and-hold leaves the run. It claims no thrust, so nothing you do there can be mistaken for a steering input.
• The Local Network prompt. iOS asks for permission the first time you host or join a head-to-head race. Say yes, or the two phones cannot find each other. It is the only permission the game ever asks for, and it is used for exactly that — see the privacy policy.
• Both thumbs. Two on-screen sticks, no grip, no brake. The pipe is the road in every direction; the energy core is the only thing telling you how much speed you can afford.

What is worth reporting

The useful feedback is the kind you would give a friend, not a bug tracker. If something felt wrong, that is a report, even if you cannot say why.

• The sticks. Where they land for your hands, whether they feel laggy, and whether you can hold a precise deflection with the phone unsupported. This is the whole game and it has been tuned by one pair of thumbs.
• Frame rate — especially in the lit tunnels, which carry a lot of small lights, and especially on an older phone. Tell us the model; that is the part we cannot guess.
• Anything cut off at the edges. The notch, the Dynamic Island, the home indicator, and iPad's very different shape. If an instrument is under one of them, that is a real bug.
• Head-to-head. Two devices on the same Wi-Fi: one hosts and shows an address, the other types it in. No internet, no account, no matchmaking.
• Where you got stuck or bored. Which rung of the ladder, and what you were trying to do. A difficulty curve is the one thing a solo developer genuinely cannot test.

Already known — no need to report

• No leaderboards, achievements or saved records. That layer exists in the code and nothing writes to it yet, so a race you win leaves no trace beyond unlocking the next rung.
• Only the built-in soundtrack. Playing your own music from the phone's library is written but switched off, so the option may appear and do nothing.

Everything else, send to [email protected], or straight from TestFlight — screenshot while playing, then Share Beta Feedback. A sentence and the phone model is plenty.

Questions people actually ask

Does it cost anything to test?

No. Runoff will be a paid game, but every TestFlight build is free for testers for as long as the test runs. There is no card to enter and no trial to cancel.

Do you collect my email?

There's nothing on this page to fill in. Joining happens entirely inside TestFlight, and what reaches us is a tester count, Apple's crash reports, and whatever feedback you choose to send. The game itself is the same as it will be on the store: no account, no ads, no analytics, nothing about you leaving the device.

Does the game phone home?

No. Runoff plays entirely offline; its only network feature is head-to-head racing, which talks directly to the other player's device on your own network and goes no further. The privacy policy spells out exactly what that means.

Why did the build stop working?

TestFlight builds expire 90 days after they're uploaded. When one does, open TestFlight and install the newest build — the invitation link stays the same, so you never need to use it twice.

Will I have to buy it again at launch?

The TestFlight build isn't a purchase and it isn't a licence — it stops working when the test ends, and buying the game on the App Store is a separate thing. Nothing you do here charges you anything.

Can I stop?

Whenever you like. Open TestFlight, pick Runoff, and stop testing — then delete the app as you would any other. Nobody is chased and leaving early isn't held against anyone.