PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

After that, if you want to ship something, you need to build discipline.” While I get feedback from friends and playtesters, it doesn’t compare to the iteration you get from working with someone who is equally as invested in the project as you are. I do a lot of solo playtesting, either against myself or against a CPU player. “I

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For beginners, try building a variant mode on a board, card, or tabletop game you already have. What happens if you increase or decrease the number of houses you can build? Then playtest your changes and see how things feel. Choose a theme or experience you want players to have, and then build a game to get them to feel it.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 16, 2023

We are building a historically accurate survival strategy game” Gorilla Softworks co-founder Deniz Şakar explains how the team has tried to accurately portray the challenges early humans faced while they looked for ways to survive and thrive. “We It’s the debut game of Turkish studio Gorilla Softworks. “We

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iXie gaming

APRIL 16, 2024

Therefore, testers often repeat the process to re-verify the bug fixes and improvements made on the latest game build. Playtesting This method involves testers playing the game as the end users. Some popular game-testing techniques include: Combinatorial Testing Load Testing Playtesting 4. So, why wait?

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 30, 2023

We had three very different games that we spent around two weeks on each, developing them up to a point where we could playtest them with other people”, says Mason. Another layer of uneasiness A big factor in the game’s atmosphere and world building are the visuals. Our first playtester hit the first target after approximately 0.5

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 20, 2023

We had three very different games that we spent around two weeks on each, developing them up to a point where we could playtest them with other people”, says Mason. Another layer of uneasiness A big factor in the game’s atmosphere and world building are the visuals. Our first playtester hit the first target after approximately 0.5

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2023

This city-building sim takes players back to the Song Dynasty, where they must navigate the challenges of settling a town, cultivating the land and expanding the city. When the team first decided to make a sim management style game, they quickly settled on a city building sim. “We But it took some tweaking to get the right balance.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 19, 2023

This approach not only offers an almost infinite amount of content but also allows players to climb famous rock faces, buildings, and even landmarks in their own cities. But we probed and playtested, and we pulled through without changing course to a climbing-inspired arcade game”, says Boogaard.

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

However, building a scalable and reliable session-based online multiplayer game is not easy, since there are many components that need to be developed. With FlexMatch, you can build a custom set of rules that defines what a multiplayer match looks like for your game, and determines how to evaluate and select compatible players for each match.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 13, 2022

These are updated pretty often based on feedback and playtesting from patrons. There's a new "exchange" system that lets you swap certain cards from your hand with those in your discard pile to help you build the hand you want. Super moves now require building up super meter to use.

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Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Through playtesting, you can answer the question “do the mechanics suit the theme?”. Figure out the theme you want to capture, try building it through mechanics, then playtest and tweak until you successfully captured your desired theme. Then you can start developing mechanics. The further you go, the grittier rules become.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

You have to build VR experiences the right way to make this happen. Playtesting is crucial at this point. And many of the regular tricks that devs use to save on rendering costs are lost when building VR games. “It It does take much longer to build a great VR game. VR is all about immersion. You may have to get creative.

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DameDev.tv

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Our 'AHA' moments Playing more games can make you a better game developer Join game jams to improve your game development skills Form a community of game dev friends Playtest each other's games and offer valuable feedback. Play More Games (0:38 - 3:00) Playing more games can improve your skills as a game developer.

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Grumpy Gamer

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

For Thimbleweed Park builds were hand compiled which took a lot of time and was very error prone. More than once I made DEBUG builds rather than RELEASE builds or forgot to change some debug setting back. It's nice to have builds compiled in the cloud and know they are from a pristine environment each time.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 22, 2023

One of the things I’ve been focusing on a bit more in recent years is a revival of the greater game:non-game work ratio that Cogmind enjoyed in its early years when I was less interested in promoting it and more interesting in just building cool stuff. All your base are belong to us.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

How to Venture in Your First NFT Game Development Here is a step-by-step guide to help you build your first NFT game: 1. Learn a Relevant Programming Language Building an NFT game requires you to properly understand a relevant programming language. As one of the latest technologies, blockchain presents new challenges.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Building off of Taufner's solid blockout, I knocked holes in a lot of walls and ceilings to try to unify the rooms and give more breathing room, while ensuring they still played in roughly the same way. Overall the collab was a success. We all got what we wanted, and I think the final result plays pretty well. Arcane Dimensions 1.8

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Xcode Instruments If you’re building video games for iOS, Xcode Instruments can be an ideal testing tool to level up your game QA. PlaytestCloud PlaytestCloud enables you to playtest any video game on any platform, including iOS and Android. This tool focuses on gathering user feedback and playtesting.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Building multiplayer games can be rewarding and exciting for aspiring game developers. Here’s a quick overview of the entire process of developing multiplayer games, from pre-production to post-release: Concept and Design  Like any other game, the journey of building a multiplayer game starts by creating the game concept.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

I had literally just started programming 6 months prior and now I’m building a full game? All this before there’s ever any playtesting done. This whole process was a big learning experience on so many fronts.” And the biggest pitfalls? Having full control over the entire project and its creative direction counts as a pitfall too.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 18, 2023

Customer Stories Learn how game studios of all sizes use AWS for Games services and solutions, including generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI), to build, run, and grow their games across the globe. Product Launches AWS for Games is a portfolio of purpose-built capabilities to help game developers build, run, and grow their games.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

By involving their player base in the decision-making process, they not only improve the game in real time but also build a strong bond with their audience. It forced them to reassess their development approach and switch to a steam playtesting model, allowing more players to access the game.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

If you hate the game you’re playtesting, do something different. Don’t just playtest it and refine the mechanics. If you can give your game a story, you build a whole world of context that draws patterns in the mechanics and the theme. This seems obvious, but never lose sight of it. It stalled out for the next four.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Otherwise, the puzzle can cause frustration by making players think that they are missing something when they aren’t, like the nagging feeling one gets when there are leftover parts when building something. It’s important to get playtesters who aren’t familiar with the puzzle to test it, especially noting any frustration points.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It’s the phase where anticipation builds up for the game’s grand entrance. Playtesters are vital in finding bugs, glitches, and potential issues. Developers may produce a hype video showcasing cinematics and gameplay. Launch Launch day is like crossing the finish line.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 8, 2023

In regression testing, the stability and integrity of the build are considered vital to ensuring that changes, updates, or fixes don’t affect the game’s functionality. This technique aims to locate the exact origin of a glitch or bug within the game build.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 1, 2017

Game reviews build trust. If something slips through your playtesting, it might very well be caught in the review stage. Would you spend $50 on someone you don’t know? Probably not. Well, at least I wouldn’t, because I’m a total tightwad in the wallet department.

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Different game types benefit from varying levels of automated playtesting. These scripts should be reusable across different game builds and versions. This will enable them to build effective test automation solutions and leverage them to optimize your game’s quality and functionality.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Building on the above point, many publishers like to create a portfolio of different kinds of games to reduce risks. They could be manufacturers, retailers, designers, or playtesters. Publishers are keenly aware of this, so they are very careful how much financial risk they expose themselves to. So they get the axe.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 20, 2020

This gives you a chance to build up useful skills that you can use to serve others. Now circling back to what Matt had asked about finding playtesters, here’s how you might apply these principles. The thing to remember when networking or asking for favors is that you ultimately want to be valuable in the relationship.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Gameplay testing , also called playtesting, is the process of having testers play a game to identify issues, collect feedback, and enhance its quality before official release. Its dimensions, from functional and gameplay crowd-testing to competitor evaluations, help developers build games that meet the market requirements.

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Interesting Choices

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Also wanted to give a quick update on my various boardgame designs: City Draft - This 7 Wonders inspired drafting game is consistently liked in playtests and has been improving slowly and steadily. I thought I was onto something here after I hit a design breakthrough a few weeks ago but I'm getting discouraged again based on recent playtests.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This minimizes redundancy and the time required to create new test scripts each time you build a game. This is never the case because some game tests, such as playtesting and ad hoc, cannot be automated. Reusability of test scripts. Automated game test scripts can be reused in multiple instances.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Further over to the right we’ll see the playtest buttons which allow us to play, pause or stop our game. In the following tutorials, we’ll actually get to work building a game! Our NoCode game development course teaches indie game devs how to build breathtaking games from scratch. . Let’s look over to the left first.

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Sirlin

OCTOBER 20, 2015

If you'd like to learn more about Codex, here's three articles about the game's design: #1 Codex Design: Cards and Gold As Resources #2 Codex Design: Heroes and Tech Buildings #3 Codex Design: Combat and the Patrol Zone Anyway, all those Codex early access sets already shipped out and my patrons often play each other over Skype.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 11, 2018

Emelie: Exactly, I also think smaller cons are better to build an initial audience as it is easier to spend more time per visitor at the booth and there is more time to demo your game as well. Brandon: Right, and building an audience is a long, slow endeavor (at least at first). Or overshadowed by larger companies. What to Do at Cons.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

External validation rarely comes your way, especially while seeking attention on social media – which is absolutely required to build a community and get to be known by players. I usually start with a location or concept from which I build a ‘mind map’. What’s your creative process? “My In which time period is it set?’

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