Playtesting

Having our game played by other students has been a great opportunity for us to receive a lot of constructive feedback, which was taken into consideration and later analyzed in order to make the right adjustments to the game mechanics in accordance with the advice we received following the playtesting session. Being one of the developers of a video game means that you often get the opportunity to playtest it in the hopes of finding bugs or other strange behaviors […]

Blog #5: How playtesting shaped one of our core mechanics

Hello and welcome again to my blog!
I am Léo and Scrum Master of Team Wendigo. Today, I will talk about playtesting and how it has affected the development of our game, “Umibōzu”. Playtesting is a crucial part of game development. Whether a mechanic is “fun” in a game is often discovered through the iterative and incremental nature provided by the Scrum framework (check out my blog post on Scrum). The Empiricism principle (“inspect and adapt”) as well […]

Playtesting

For our shoot ‘em up game we have had different play testing where we have shown our game for the other students and had them play it and come with feedback to help improve and see what flaws we have missed in the process of making the game.
It starts with we make the player play through the game, just explaining the controls and keep it very simple so the player can figure out without any instructions. After they have played […]

Testing, Testing, One…Two…Seven!? Oh No, Not Again!

The importance of a fresh pair of eyes on a work in progress during game development cannot be understated. Work on a game long enough, and the obvious problems start to become not so obvious. There have been two official playtesting sessions over the course of…the course, one before alpha and one before beta. While my group’s first playtesting session did not yield much as there was not much to test, the second playtesting session offered valuable insight into our […]

Beta Play Test

When producing a game it is very important to play test often. It gives you lots of insight and details on what to change, what is fun, what people like or do not like, almost everything! The more you do it, the more you know about your game. And what’s even better is to get someone else to play it too, other people have a fresh mind set which you can use to see flaws or details form someone who […]

Being prepared

As this is my second blog post on the topic of play testing, I will rather focus on preparing for playtesting, than the value of playtesting itself. If you want to read about that instead, check out this post. When working on a game it is very important to be prepared for things as Alpha and Beta presentations, but also for events like playtesting sessions.
This was unfortunately not the case when we had our […]

Playtesting

Hello reader 
This week I am writing about how the playtesting has affected our development of the game. 
Up to this point we have had two playtesting sessions that both have gone well. We had a good number of testers both times with a few more during the first session. Most of the feedback that we have received have been useful and some of it was a bit unclear. 
During the first playtesting we wanted to see what people generally thought of the game and what they thought of the things we had implemented at that time in the […]

5SD064 – Game Design Blog 08/03

The effects of Playtesting
Hello yet again! This week I will be writing about the effects that the sessions of playtesting had on our game, Beelonging.
During the course we had the opportunity to let other developers from the other teams, as well as the professors at the university, play and try out our game. There were two sessions, Alpha playtesting and Beta playtesting.
The point of playtesting is to let players who have no previous experience of the game play it and […]

The Benefits of Playtesting

This week, I got the opportunity to play games made by other groups, and give my own feedback on the gaming experience. My fellow classmates also got the chance of playing the video game made by my group and give their feedback as well. This was an experience known as playtesting, and in these last two months, our class have had two playtesting classes: One for the first draft of our video game (Alpha) and one for the second draft […]

Playtesting

Playtesting is a very important part of the development step. It makes it possible to design flexible products by using the feedback gained during the development phase, in order to meet the players’ expectations. Playtesting can provide feedback for game on multiple levels; such as the game being mechanically balanced being fun or mechanics being compatible to theme. It is also good for having an outer perspective on the assets and can point to the problems that are unnoticed by the […]

How has playtesting affected the development of Umibōzu?

Playtesting is definitely one of the most important components when developing a game. Not only does playtesting provide confirmation whether or not standards or goals are being met, it also exposes the developers to different insights and perspectives that would end up unheard otherwise. In the following blog entry,  I will talk about how playtesting has affected the development of our game, Umibōzu.

How did we approach the playtests?
Whenever you conduct a playtest, you have to previously think […]

Comment #2

This is Guy from team Wendigo
Your post seems to cover all the bases for implementing a health bar in a game and probably would prove useful to anyone looking to do the same thing in their own game, your use of masks was fairly creative and I liked the level of detail despite the fact that you didn’t show any code.
I feel as if I must comment on the grammar and spelling. I’d hate to come off as mean, but […]