Play the beta

Dice Chess for Fire TV is in a tester round before its release. The builds are pre-releases: free, in English, and still changing.

On a Fire TV Stick: Live App Testing

Owners of a Fire TV Stick 4K Select or a Fire TV Stick HD (2nd generation) can install the game from the Amazon Appstore by invitation, without developer mode or a computer:

1. Write to hello@fortemate.com with the email address of the Amazon account your Stick is registered to. Amazon asks that testers be at least 18, so a child plays on a parent’s Stick.
2. Amazon sends an invitation to that address, and a notification to the Stick.
3. On the Stick, install Appstore Beta Hub from the Amazon Appstore, a free app of Amazon’s for testers. Open it, choose Dice Chess under Beta Apps Not Installed, and select Get.

Without Beta Hub, open the link in the email for your country’s Appstore instead, choose your Stick under Send to Device, and the game installs like any other app.

When we publish a new beta, Beta Hub has it at once: highlight the game, press the menu button on the remote, and choose Check for Update. Amazon’s Beta Hub guide has the rest.

If the game does not appear, open Settings → My Account → Sync Amazon Content on the Stick; Amazon’s Beta Hub guide calls the menu Account & Profile Settings. The Stick is listed only if it is sold in your country’s Amazon store.

In developer mode or on the Virtual Device

Each pre-release has three packages: one for a Fire TV Stick in developer mode, and two for the Vega Virtual Device, on a Mac with Apple silicon and on Linux or an Intel Mac. Installing them needs the vega command line from Amazon’s Vega SDK. Write to hello@fortemate.com for them and for the steps.

What to try

• How to play, the six-lesson tutorial, before anything else.
• A game against the computer: Rolly (easy), Grabby (medium) or Rampage (hard).
• A hotseat game with someone else in the room, passing the remote.
• Rules, to look something up.
• The music as a game gets tense, and Settings for the music and the sound effects.

Tell us what you found

Use the anonymous form, or write to hello@fortemate.com.

Say which build you played, and whether on a Fire TV Stick or on the Virtual Device. What confused you is as useful as what broke.

What this build is

• Tested on the Vega Virtual Device so far, and not yet on a Fire TV Stick.
• Private: it has no network code, no accounts and no analytics. Games, results and settings stay on the TV.
• English only for now.