How to share game builds with playtesters
Zip your build, upload it to Pandafile and share the link with testers. Use Send by email if you want to know which testers have downloaded it.
Indie developers often need to get a fresh build to a handful of playtesters, a publisher or a QA friend quickly. Pandafile works in the browser on both ends, so testers do not need an account or an app to get your build.
Zip the build first
Game builds contain thousands of small files and executables that must stay exactly as they are. Zip the build folder yourself before uploading so testers get one file that unpacks into a working game. Put the version and platform in the name, for example MyGame_v0.4.2_Win64.zip.
Share it
- Open pandafile.co and drop the ZIP on the page.
- Wait for the upload to finish. If your connection blips, it resumes.
- Press Get a link and Copy link to paste it into Discord or your tester group, along with patch notes.
- Or choose Send by email to send each tester a personal link. You will get an email as each one downloads, and those who have not get one reminder a day.
Free, Plus or Pro?
- Free: up to 10 GB per rolling 7 days, link kept 7 days. Fine for a small build to a few testers.
- Plus and Pro: up to 250 GB or 1 TB per transfer, kept 14 or 30 days, no ads and password protection for builds you do not want leaking.
Pandafile does not offer an API or command-line uploads yet, so it is not a replacement for automated build distribution.
