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Practical Game Design
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Practical Game Design

by Adam Kramarzewski, Ennio De Nucci
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
476 pages
14h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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What to playtest?

Anything that cannot be verified within the confines of your development team is a potential playtesting candidate. A well prepared playtest will be confined to a particular set of questions that your team wants to answer, for example:

  • Are the controls easy to understand and use?
  • Do players like and care about their character?
  • Is this area/mechanic/enemy/puzzle too difficult or too easy?
  • Are people motivated to keep on playing?

Such questions and hypothesis are often a part of the production milestone and determine whether the game should continue as is, change its course, or even get canceled.

Testing the whole game without focus is rarely a good idea. The broader the spectrum of feedback, the harder it becomes to capture ...

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ISBN: 9781787121799Other