CLOSED TEST

PROTOPILOT

A one-button flying game. Hold to climb, let go to dive. Ten hand-built levels, a global leaderboard, and no adverts, purchases or trackers anywhere in it.

1. JOIN THE TESTER GROUP Opens your mail app on a blank message — just send it

   Send it from the Google account you play on. Google signs up whichever address the mail arrives from and writes back to confirm, and Play checks that same address against the account signed in on your phone — so a mail sent from anything else joins the group and still cannot see the test. Nothing below works until you have answered the confirmation.

   The group is protopilot-testing@googlegroups.com. If no mail app opens, send a blank message to protopilot-testing+subscribe@googlegroups.com yourself, or join from the group page instead. Membership is only how Play knows you are a tester — it is not a mailing list and needs no reading.

2. BECOME A TESTER Opt in to the closed test — phone or desktop, either works

   Signed in as the account you joined the group with. This is the step Play is actually gating, and it can take a few minutes to reach the Play Store on your phone once you have pressed it.

3. INSTALL THE GAME The Play listing, on the phone you want to play on

   Last, and only once step 2 has gone through. Opened before that, the listing answers “item not found” or offers whatever other track that account is on, neither of which looks like a test you have just been invited to.