You don't have to do anything special to get a chance to participate in the pre-alpha. Just make sure you are a member of our Discord ==> Discord.gg
Alpha keys will be given to all Discord members at the point of the pre-alpha release (March 1st). After that, keys will be given in bulk to groups of new members.
We want everyone to play Blazing Sails but to make sure the servers don't get overloaded we will gradually allow more and more people to play. For those who want to play asap, there's a countdown to pre-release on our website ==> Blazingsails.com
In the meantime you can take a look at what we've been working on lately:
The musket:
And last but not least, a preview of the modular building assets. This is a small test scene. The goal of this scene was to see what we can do with the modular pieces: