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Playtesting

Playtesting. Game Mod workshop – Brian Schrank. You. X. players. game. Tissue tests. Find people who’ve never seen your game. Why? They have fresh eyes . They tell you what should be obvious. Tissue tests. They have open minds. They reveal LOW HANGING FRUIT.

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Playtesting

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  1. Playtesting Game Mod workshop – Brian Schrank

  2. You X players game

  3. Tissue tests • Find people who’ve never seen your game. Why? • They have fresh eyes. • They tell you what should be obvious.

  4. Tissue tests • They have open minds. • They reveal LOW HANGING FRUIT.

  5. How to conduct playtests • Say as little as possible before they play. • Let the game speak for itself. • Show them the controls and that’s it.

  6. How to conduct playtests • Let Players Be: • Free to fail… AND • Free to find fun.

  7. What’s the Think aloud protocol?

  8. What’s the Think aloud protocol? • Encourage the player to verbalize all their internal thoughts. • It’s supposed to be a stream-of-consciousness ramble.

  9. What are the 4 types of game testing?

  10. What are the 4 types of game testing? • Focus Testing • Quality Assurance (Bugs) • Usability • Playtesting

  11. What are the 4 types of game testing? • Focus Testing • Quality Assurance (Bugs) • Usability • Playtesting

  12. During the Playtest ask these questions in your head: • What are the bugs? • Do players understand how to play? • Where do players get stuck? • When do players have the most fun? • What could be added/removed to add fun?

  13. IMMEDIATELY After playtesting: • Give a short Google Doc survey. • Then give an in-person interview.

  14. Okay interview questions: • Will you be brutallyhonest, please? • 3 favorite things in the prototype? • 2changes we should make? • 1 least favorite thing in the prototype? • What game(s) does it remind you of?

  15. Better interview questions: • Overall, what were your thoughts of the game? • What were your thoughts about the game play? • Were you able to learn how to play quickly? • What is the objective of the game? • How would you describe this game to someone who has never played it before? • Is there anything you didn‘t like about the game • Was anything confusing? Take me through it.

  16. survey questions • I understand what to do in the game. • The controls are balanced for the game. • The game is appropriately challenging. • Level One is as long (big, hard, etc.) as it should be. • The prototype 1 is fun to play. • The prototype 2 is fun to play… and so on. • The display (health bar, etc.) is easy to understand.

  17. survey answer format • Use 5 Scale System (it’s proven to work): • 5=strongly agree • 4=somewhat agree • 3=neither agree nor disagree • 2=somewhat disagree • 1=strongly disagree

  18. Playtest Questions?

  19. What do players really want?

  20. x x Every Game Should Provide 4 Types of Fun: What do players really want? x x

  21. x x Every Game Should Provide 4 Types of Fun: What do players really want? x x

  22. Emotional timeline + Level design = fun FieroHard fun Curiosity Easy fun

  23. It’s a lesson taken from film:

  24. Please Be more sophisticated than this:

  25. Fun Questions?

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