Lycanthrope: Playtesting reflection

Hello! My name is Mattias Borgqvist and I am currently working on a shoot em up game based on the concept document “A game of beelonging” by group Ouroboros.
This week I will discuss my view on how playtesting has affected our development and how we went through with the testing itself, also if I think the result from the playtesting was useful or not
So how does the playtesting affect our development? Well it gives us a good benchmark to test […]

Design-Build-Test-Learn

Play testing is an essential part of game design. Game design, like any other design follows a cycle of design, build, test and learn.
The never ending cycle of design
Play testing and the analysis of the observations made during it represent the last two steps in this cycle. To be able to evaluate the design decisions in the game it is important to let “outsiders” (people that are not in the development team) test the game. The reason that this is […]

Playtests & Feedback

Playtesting is an important thing in part of any game development project to ensure a quality product, and without it you are designing and iterating in the dark. This can also be an example of what happens when playtests don’t go exactly as planned, which was what happened in our (Team Vampire’s) case.
Over the course of the production for Umibozu, we had to playtests which happened with a varying level of success. The Alpha only suffered from some minor issues […]

Playtests & Feedback

Playtesting is an important thing in part of any game development project to ensure a quality product, and without it you are designing and iterating in the dark. This can also be an example of what happens when playtests don’t go exactly as planned, which was what happened in our (Team Vampire’s) case.
Over the course of the production for Umibozu, we had to playtests which happened with a varying level of success. The Alpha only suffered from some minor issues […]

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 […]

Playtesting…1..2..3…

Alpha and Beta presentations are done and the clock is ticking for the final submission. Every group has implemented most of the assets and now the final polishing is underway. Like others, we are almost done, only left with a few tweaks and bug fixing.
Playtesting had played a very crucial role in the development of the game “Fear is in me”. The first playtest was an utter failure. In the first playtest session before the alpha presentation, our group could not […]

Blog 5

Working with playtests and feedback
So the topic for this week is playtests, and for that I will tell you how we have playtested our game as well as how that affected.
Footage from the Alpha build of the game.
For the Alpha-playtest we had one enemy, one power-up and the player who can move and shoot. At this stage we had not yet implemented the fog system which is a key part of our game concept. Therefore it was difficult to ask […]

Importance of playtesting

One of the most important parts of working scrum or agile in general is iteration, and one of the most important parts of iteration is feedback. How else would you know what to change and re-iterate? This is where playtesting comes in. It is one of the most important aspects of making high quality games, games where every single feature just feels polished and well thought out.
The playtesting settings we’ve had have provided our group with great feedback, not only […]

Playtesting and how Sirens rose from exhaustion

When playtesting, having a clear focus and idea about what you want to test is vital. Our beta playtesting was focused in one aspect of the game: Powerups.

We couldn’t come to a conclusion of what would be best for the game, and in consequence to the player: Power-up as instant pickups, or power-ups as innate abilities that you could activate with the use of energy. Making a decision about this was important, as the design of animations and assets depended […]

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 […]

Playtesting Umibōzu

Hello, I am Hampus Bergström, the game designer for the team Wendigo that works on the game Umibōzu. During our course “Game Design 2: game Development” and therefore during development of this game, we have had the chance to playtest our game with all other first year student in the game education. Having such a large number of testers to test our game has helped us a lot to see what to change in or game and more importantly, what […]

5th post – Playtesting

During the production of our “Shoot em up” game, we have had couple of playtests. For the first test, we made a survey with 4 questions. We had received 22 responses. As for the second playtest, we just asked the players what they did not like about the game and how to improve it. The purpose of playtesting was to get feedback on the game and maybe some advices on how to fix some problems.

During the Alpha playtest, we basically […]