Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Playtesting is crucial at this point. Don’t bite off more than you can chew Once you have the base gameplay sorted, your next job is to decide what other features to add. That’s interesting and new gameplay for Among Us” There were plenty more features and mechanics the team considered adding. You may have to get creative.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Whereas if 90% of the people in a bar were women, the idea is that the environment is more appealing than the actual content. During the playtest, six people played at the same time, and I noticed they laughed at certain texts, which was great. Yes, the quality of the drink matters but the first inviting thing was the environment.”

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Grid Sage Games

JUNE 30, 2023

And we use the forums for the occasional REXPaint feature/help discussion, so yeah they have their uses even now. Discord itself of course wants to capitalize on this effect and promote related features, so it provides an SDK for doing such things. Okay yeah that makes sense.

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Grid Sage Games

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Although I already demonstrated much of the first new modal UI layout in an earlier forum announcement , I figure I could review those features here in order to provide closure to this series, plus cover some related dev topics as well as the second modal layout. The inventory! It’s gone! Condensed part headers in action. It was a lot.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

Fink shared that the team plans to host open development talks every Saturday on Twitch, where they would discuss new features and gain valuable player input. “We go back and forth with our community until we find a feature that they would like, and we would like, so we have the perfect middle ground of what we want to do.”

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Play testers explore the game, checking for bugs, rendering issues, and exploitable features. Regular software updates, including game-balancing patches and new downloadable content (DLC), keep the game fresh and engaging. Playtesters are vital in finding bugs, glitches, and potential issues. The 7 Odd Roadblocks!

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The first question around non-PVP content (single player campaign, Zombies) was resourcing: non-PVP content required the most development heads and was the least retentive in the long term, since players tended to not return after completing it.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Firstly, you need a minimum internet bandwidth to stream animation content effectively. Secondly, you need an encrypted and performing streaming protocol to protect your content from piracy. This is probably the most loved feature by Flaneer users. Those instances contain only the exe of the game you want to test.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Here’s how you can ensure thorough functional testing for your console game: Test all game features, functionalities, and mechanics to ensure they perform as intended. Instead, it’s about adapting graphics, content, and cultural references that resonate with various regions. Remember, it’s not just about translating the game.

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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. It assesses a particular service or feature of a game by setting multiple data values and variables to the game and running it in the runtime environment.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Well, after Beta 11 that’s where we find ourselves now, switching focus more and more to brand new elements that don’t need to adhere to any sort of core content accessibility requirements. There’s already a ton of core content--many hundreds of hours worth. It’s about 800 lines long :P Here “post-1.0”

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iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This ensures that many game mechanics, interactions, and features are thoroughly tested. Game test automation allows for scalable testing by quickly modifying existing and adding new test scripts to address changes in the game’s content or functionality. Different game types benefit from varying levels of automated playtesting.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

For Beta 12 I decided to include it on the patron feature voting list, and… it won. The amount of content variety offered by the original Garrison design was more suited to a lower visitation rate, not the “I’m going to play almost my entire run inside these things” which it had become for some people.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

Our most important storytelling tool is not the written word: We use the game’s feature set to tell its story. We need to understand, at least at a high level, all of its features. That’s why we have to understand the feature set. How should I space out my content to create the pacing I want?

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Grid Sage Games

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Of course that might make them a little less representative of the kind of system we’d need later, and therefore require more changes down the road (spoiler alert: it did :P), but at least it would be easier to wrap my head around this crazy feature while working on the building blocks. QoL/UI Features. Construct Creation.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Then, think about play diversity, mastery, depth and social features that make the game even stickier. Add features that foster completionism or social cooperation for the most engaged players, and reawaken churned users with battle passes that encourage players to come back and see what’s new, then reward them with ‘welcome back’ gifts.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

At that point, Second Dinner revealed that their first project just so happens to be a licensed Marvel IP, which the team has been working on for six months already and is currently beginning to playtest. Marvel Snap starts with a simple intro sequence featuring Nick Fury and Doctor Doom battling each other with you controlling Nick Fury.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I’m going to go ahead and just make this a SPOILER discussion as far as game content goes, so that I can write freely about related mechanics, so maybe don’t read this one if you’re spoiler averse and not familiar with teleporting. Both can fit into the lore rather nicely, though, and in fact be related to one another.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

The first part of this so-called “Great Utility Update” began during Alpha 12 with a few fundamental mechanical changes, but since then the project remained on the to-do list until 1) even more content was added to the game, and 2) we collected more info about what items people were and were not using, and why. Fine tuning.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

CONTENT WARNING 1: I mention a suicide from a century ago. CONTENT WARNING 2: the game is rather explicit, but I've kept the imagery in this post relatively tame, at a semi-NSFW / soft-R rating. My modern PDF edition features modern typography, her last letters, and some historical context and footnotes.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This was no surprise as there was little content in the game. They were not featured by app stores either. Are the games regularly featured, or are they growing through cross-promotion inside the portfolio of the same publisher? In my opinion, experiments should not be limited to testing new features and measuring their impact.

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