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Blog comment #3 Sophie Ahlberg
https://sophiesgaming.wordpress.com/2018/02/22/dum-du-dum-scrum/
The article is in a clear and neat first person perspective. The graph and the link also give me a clear vision of what Scrum is and how it works. In many points, I feel exact the same. At the first and second weeks I touch Scrum I also left ton of tasks and promises to the list which stressed me out during the following week. It teaches you to be responsible and contribute to the group. Unlike […]
Blog comment #3 Sophie Ahlberg
https://sophiesgaming.wordpress.com/2018/02/22/dum-du-dum-scrum/
The article is in a clear and neat first person perspective. The graph and the link also give me a clear vision of what Scrum is and how it works. In many points, I feel exact the same. At the first and second weeks I touch Scrum I also left ton of tasks and promises to the list which stressed me out during the following week. It teaches you to be responsible and contribute to the group. Unlike […]
Blog comment #2 Samuel Karabetian
https://samuelkarabetiansgameblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/enemy-and-obstacle-spawning/
Hello Samuel! Thanks for the explanation of the obstacle spawner! The article wrote in a clear structure and told me details of what you did which would be easy for me to simulate. I love the inspector design you made! I have totally no idea how to modify the pattern of the inspector, though I modify the properties of GameObject there as well. It will be great to have a header and slider to make the architecture neat […]
Blog comment #2 Samuel Karabetian
https://samuelkarabetiansgameblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/enemy-and-obstacle-spawning/
Hello Samuel! Thanks for the explanation of the obstacle spawner! The article wrote in a clear structure and told me details of what you did which would be easy for me to simulate. I love the inspector design you made! I have totally no idea how to modify the pattern of the inspector, though I modify the properties of GameObject there as well. It will be great to have a header and slider to make the architecture neat […]
Blog comment #1 Wiktor Ravndal
https://whitechocoboy.wordpress.com/2018/02/08/spooky-fishy/
According to the picture, i think it does creates a horrible atmosphere to me, especially the teeth and the point light from the eye. However, since the player are chasing by the fish, will it still see the rest of the body? The bloody body of the fish also reflects it’s a dangerous creature. It would be a pity if i can’t see the whole body because i die immediately when touching the mouth of the fish. Another […]
Blog comment #1 Wiktor Ravndal
https://whitechocoboy.wordpress.com/2018/02/08/spooky-fishy/
According to the picture, i think it does creates a horrible atmosphere to me, especially the teeth and the point light from the eye. However, since the player are chasing by the fish, will it still see the rest of the body? The bloody body of the fish also reflects it’s a dangerous creature. It would be a pity if i can’t see the whole body because i die immediately when touching the mouth of the fish. Another […]
The best guidance: Play Testing
During the process of the project, we held two official playing testing session for each team’s game. One before the Alpha presentation, the other before Beta. I have to admit, we acquired lots of valuable feedback and settled decisions we may take plenty of time to decide.
The thing that been contributed most is the balancing of the game. As the team members, we were all way too familiar with the features of the game. We know very timing of using […]
The best guidance: Play Testing
During the process of the project, we held two official playing testing session for each team’s game. One before the Alpha presentation, the other before Beta. I have to admit, we acquired lots of valuable feedback and settled decisions we may take plenty of time to decide.
The thing that been contributed most is the balancing of the game. As the team members, we were all way too familiar with the features of the game. We know very timing of using […]
Dev Blog 5, Playtesting
This week I will be writing about how playtesting of our game has affected our development.
Coming in to the first session, our game wasn’t in a very playable state. Several mechanics were unclear and some of them weren’t completely implemented. This meant that testers had a hard time seeing what we were trying to accomplish with the design, and a lot of feedback was therefore useless. However, there were some useful takeaways for me.
The first takeaway was that we needed […]
Dev Blog 5, Playtesting
This week I will be writing about how playtesting of our game has affected our development.
Coming in to the first session, our game wasn’t in a very playable state. Several mechanics were unclear and some of them weren’t completely implemented. This meant that testers had a hard time seeing what we were trying to accomplish with the design, and a lot of feedback was therefore useless. However, there were some useful takeaways for me.
The first takeaway was that we needed […]
Playtesting in our game
My own playtesting
First off, I wanna talk about the playtesting I do on my own while programming. Unity gives some good tools and functionality when testing, mainly the console(for debugging) and the ability to adjust variables while running the game in the inspector. This makes it way easier to balance certain features, and also just compare the game feel with different values for variables, like for movement.
This is somewhere I hope to improve though, to use the tools unity provides, […]
Playtesting in our game
My own playtesting
First off, I wanna talk about the playtesting I do on my own while programming. Unity gives some good tools and functionality when testing, mainly the console(for debugging) and the ability to adjust variables while running the game in the inspector. This makes it way easier to balance certain features, and also just compare the game feel with different values for variables, like for movement.
This is somewhere I hope to improve though, to use the tools unity provides, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Importance of Playtesting
Hello once again!
Fredrik here and today I will talk about the importance of good playtesting. It’s something that has been said again and again but the real significance isn’t really felt until it’s tried. It’s just one of those things that you have to experience for yourself. As for our game, we have gotten a lot of very good feedback from both of the playtests that we held, some of those things that related a lot to my work were […]
The Importance of Playtesting
Hello once again!
Fredrik here and today I will talk about the importance of good playtesting. It’s something that has been said again and again but the real significance isn’t really felt until it’s tried. It’s just one of those things that you have to experience for yourself. As for our game, we have gotten a lot of very good feedback from both of the playtests that we held, some of those things that related a lot to my work were […]
Blog post 5 – Playtesting
During this course we have had two playtesting workshops were other teams could test each other’s games and give feedback on them. And in our group Archon we have been working on showing our game Aetherial for the playtesting. The playtesting was arranged a few days before the Alfa presentation and the same for the Beata presentation.
The playtesting purpose were to let the groups see each other’s games and to get valuable information on how to improve your game. It […]
Blog post 5 – Playtesting
During this course we have had two playtesting workshops were other teams could test each other’s games and give feedback on them. And in our group Archon we have been working on showing our game Aetherial for the playtesting. The playtesting was arranged a few days before the Alfa presentation and the same for the Beata presentation.
The playtesting purpose were to let the groups see each other’s games and to get valuable information on how to improve your game. It […]