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She Got Game on cultivating a thriving environment for female game developers

PreMortem.Games

During the playtest, six people played at the same time, and I noticed they laughed at certain texts, which was great. Robin had an idea for an educational game and needed a graphics and UX designer, which Lucia happened to be. “It She talked to me about the education system in Denmark, suggesting future opportunities.

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Why Gamification Makes Everything Else More Fun

Brand Game Development

Why do we make games for children when it comes to education, completing chores, or doing a task that they wish not to do? You can further pare down journey maps and empathy maps to very specific scenarios and instances which create many playtesting questions. This is also true to some degree and revolves around having fun.

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Choose Your Own Adventure: Self-Publish Board Games or Not?

Brand Game Development

You do the game development and playtesting. They may, however, be able to make the best educational game about Utah’s state history for local schools. It takes a lot of time to learn and it’s an entirely separate discipline from game development or any other responsibility that you will handle on a regular basis.

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The Story of Battlebit Remastered with Max Fink (theliquidhorse)

Game Dev Unchained

It forced them to reassess their development approach and switch to a steam playtesting model, allowing more players to access the game. Moreover, their ongoing commitment to education and personal growth, despite their success, emphasizes the importance of staying grounded and focused.

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GenoTerra - The finished prototype.

Mnenad

Playtesting - “One of the best experiences I made with this prototype” fellow student testing GenoTerra. It’s not the first time I did a playtesting with strangers, but this time I got so much qualitative feedback from people that I could directly implement into a series of fixing sessions.

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Zugzwang as a pole dance upward unto heaven

Radiator Blog

In my playtests, it felt like the best tactic is to try to trap the cop in the corner with your body while the AIs coordinate a big orgy that gives you a huge payout. Level 4 originally had two cops to make it more difficult to trap them, but in my playtests that turned out to be way too punishing and forced a forever stalemate.

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