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How to Tell When Play-Testing Feedback is Useful or Not

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Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. Don’t believe a dev who says “I’ve never wanted to flip the table because of some useless play-testing feedback.” Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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How Many Blind Play-Tests Does Your Board Game *Really* Need?

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Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. After all, I’m checking to make sure there are no serious balance issues that come out of repeated plays. appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. That’s a good thing!

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The Final 100 Play-Tests: How to Put Final Touches on a Board Game

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Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Click here. To quote my good friend, Wikipedia: “ [i]n statistics, an outlier is an observation point that is distant from other observations. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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How To Play-Test the Rules of Your Board Game

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Click this picture for some backstory! This is where most of the rules have been ironed out and are acceptable enough to use during a prototype either in person or online through something like Tabletopia or Tabletop simulator. This is to make sure the game is – on some fundamental level – balanced.

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