Card sorting
Another method that was designed to gather player data is card sorting, which can be useful for understanding player perceptions of key features or decided what the focus of a game should be. This method comes to us from the world of psychological testing and is designed to help us understand user expectations and their understanding of your idea. Card sorting involves writing 50–60 keywords or ideas on some note cards and asking players to sort them into categories or rank them based on their importance. These could be game features such as leveling, weapon modification, or multiplayer. They could also be more abstract ideas such as what is an acceptable game time or how important is player comfort to the experience.
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