Comment on Blog Post #4

Hey!
Sorry for the late reply!
I really like the effect you’ve achieved with the animation, the wind-up was a really good choice and I think it conveys a lot of weight and power. I enjoyed reading your post – unlike my own, it was quite short, which is fine. I think I would have wanted some more technicalities on how exactly you made it, like if you used photoshop and if you used framer or video animation. I also really like […]

5SD064 – Blog Post 5 : Playtesting

This blog will be about playtesting and its impact on development. My perspective is that of the sole programmer for team “Troll”, working on “Depth”.
Playtesting is two-dimensional : there is an internal dimension and an external one.
Internally, group Troll playtest the game whenever I implement a considerable amount of stuff in, or at the end of each sprint. In fact, playtesting plays into our definition of “done” for artifacts. Indeed, our definition of done is that it has been playtested […]

8th of March

I guess it is to be expected that the first digital game we create during our education would highlight the fact that making games is really difficult. As such, the intended end goal of this course is probably not to have us create great, or even half decent games, but rather to make sure that we learn something from the process.
That being said, I thing that we as a group has failed to utilize the playtesting sessions in a meaningful […]

The impact of Playtesting

Hello everyone. Today I am writing about playtesting more specifically how playtesting has affected our development. We had two playtests one for the alpha and one for the beta. Playtesting is important because we get outside eyes to help us to see problems, bugs or game breaking tactics in the game. As the tester played our game, some members took notes of everything they noticed, i.e., how the player moves, or how they react to different encounters. After they have […]

Playtesting

Playtesting is key in an Agile development cycle, it’s a good way to make iterations of your game fast. So that you always know if something works and is fun to play as soon you have it in a testable state. As the game designer of the group I have tested the game a lot over these weeks, and I also built the level. So after I while I know the map and the game so good that it isn’t […]

Blog post 5: Playtesting

Hello there.
This week I am going to talk about how playtesting has affected the development of the game “Depth”. During this course we had two different sessions of planned playtesting, where everyone in the course and teachers, tests all of the games in development. The first session was right before the alpha presentation and the second session was right before the beta presentation.
To do this, we used two computers with the then latest version of the game. When people came […]

What is play? Baby, don’t test me, don’t test me, no more

Hi!
it’s blog time again! This time subject being playtesting and its effect on our game development.
Both the first and second playtesting session has been helpful for us, team Kraken, in order to improve our game, Aetherial. When observing the testers try out our game, we noticed many things regarding the gameplay and design that have not been obvious to us earlier. I, as manager, added extra time to our meetings in order to go through all the data that we’ve […]

Playtesting – how did it affect our development?

The game me and my group decided to make was Umibozu. We tweaked the theme of the game and put the sailor into a swamp. You might remember us as the Umibozu game with a swarm of alligators heading your way.
For the first playtest, we didn’t really have much to ask in the questionnaire people answered after each playtest, as we were barely done with everything needed for the alpha. We basically only had a moving boat, one power-up and […]

Testing, testing.

Now we are not far away from the deadline of having to present the finished game. Throughout the development process we have used some tools to help us. Other than scrum (which I have described the advantages of in another blogpost), there has been another very important thing that we have had to our help: playtesting.
Without the valuable feedback from the playtesting, our game would probably be very difficult, because when you develop a game you playtest it yourself over […]

Test, Test and Then Test Some More, The Great Regret

The blind-eye
Playtesting in all of its variation is an integral part of iterative design. when used well it can help identify problems that were hidden in plain sight. How and when you playtest is of most importance, testing often and testing specifics of your game gives you a greater understanding of your game and its systems. With greater understanding comes greater mastery of your game, which blindsided me to the difficulty and learning curve of me and my team’s game.
Me […]

Play-testing

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This week we are required to write about play-testing and how it has affected the development of our game.
During the production of our shoot ‘em ups we have had two play-testing opportunities. One right before the Alpha deadline and the second right before our Beta deadline. The play-testing is basically a workshop where every team set up at least two laptops with their game for all the other teams to test. At least one member of the team is present […]

Prototyping, testing, and play testing

Each of them has the same goal but different purpose – game prototyping, software testing, and play testing are important processes during digital game development as they all improve quality of the game product. Prototyping helps game designers to validate ideas and concepts, whereas software testing helps developers to detect errors and bugs in codes. Usually, prototyping and software testing are conducted frequently by internal members of the development team, i.e. designers, developers, and artists. Play testing is a process […]