iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

During this phase, frequent iteration and playtesting are crucial in finetuning the multiplayer experience.  Develop a website, engage your online community, and build a social media presence. Quality Assurance and Optimization Thorough testing is crucial for multiplayer games. This will help create awareness about your game.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Playtesters are vital in finding bugs, glitches, and potential issues. Questions about how the public will receive the game, dealing with bug reports, and getting media coverage become crucial. Roadblock #5: Inadequate Testing Testing is more than just a checklist; it’s a critical phase for game quality.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Sarah: It was also in 2013 that we met Ben and were playtesters for his game Tower , which he launched on Kickstarter early in 2014. Along with handling all the business, Ben has playtested and helped develop our designs. I’m a designer, and I do development and social media outreach. Will is the lead designer.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Good ideas do come spontaneously, albeit inspired by random discussions among players, reactions to various situations in game, even playing other games and consuming various non-game media. We shall see.

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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 definitely recommend getting feedback from external playtesters at each step “On each one of those steps I end up having one or more concrete ‘products’.

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Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

It contains overviews about the design process of GenoTerra as well as research about existing projects that influenced this prototype in the context of entertainment and interactive media. Playtesting - “One of the best experiences I made with this prototype” fellow student testing GenoTerra.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

.” “Under the ever watchful eye of Adam Duncan our art director, Gavin Kusters, principal artist, and game/creative director Ty Carey, the myriad of talented artists who contributed to the project, we raised an infernal vision of Hell unlike any you will likely see in contemporary media.”

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Grumpy Gamer

JANUARY 18, 2018

PiecesOfKate: Considering the potential benefits of social media (such as Twitter) for promoting a game, versus your personal dislike of those channels - if you were to make another game would you rejoin, or avoid it? I assume you mean "playtesting" since we don't do beta testing. That wasn't true back then. Gustavo: Hi Ron.

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Grid Sage Games

JUNE 30, 2023

When a community is heavily concentrated in any one form of social media, you naturally start to think about leveraging that platform to encourage community interaction and improve the overall experience. Discord Integration? Either way, there are certainly different thresholds for what we want to include in different environments.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 20, 2020

Garret: The rest of the time you spend, is how much time it takes to develop the game, playtest, produce the artwork, playtest, write the rules, playtest, revise, and prototype. Garret: Work more on building a social following and media/reviews before launching a Kickstarter, and do more media and update prep ahead of time.

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