Sirlin

JUNE 13, 2015

Patrons helped playtest and also just point out errors or give suggestions how to improve things. This comes partly from the core mechanic being that you build your deck as you play (but not like in Puzzle Strike or Dominion), and partly that from there just being so many in-game decisions that matter.

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Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

These huge labor-intensive maps are hard to make for a variety of reasons, but in this particular context, the most relevant problem is that playtesting the same hand-tuned encounter repeatedly quickly drains its charm and it becomes difficult to gauge whether it's still interesting or not.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

link] After adjusting the lighting, Ian then shifted gears to work on addressing some of the minor level-streaming issues we'd pinpointed during playtesting at the Play NYC game convention. Music is an important piece of the Kristala puzzle. Additionally, the gap issue you can see at the end of the video below is now fixed too.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Running through the market by genre, Kress noted that King has done quite well, but other genres had suffered badly, with strategy, RPG, match puzzle, and casino games all down double digits. Shooters got creamed”, too, he said – down 33%. Kress predicted another two years of western market decline at around 5-10%.

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Interesting Choices

AUGUST 17, 2011

That said, there's a particular problem that's endemic to cooperative board games, which is that the game will present players with a puzzle, hoping that the group will work together to find a solution, and instead the single most skilled or most experienced player will end up playing for the entire group.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Not to mention that the playtests on Playtestcloud usually lasted for more than the required 30 minutes. Back then, Deconstructor of Fun wasn’t sharing yearly predictions based on detailed gaming taxonomy…. Based on this data we should have killed the game, but we decided to invest more time into understanding what was going wrong.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

In playtesting so far this (among other benefits we’ll get to later) is already clearly tempting players who would otherwise always prefer regular branches over infiltrating a Garrison. I wrote about this factor in my recent article on game design philosophy.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 22, 2019

In playtesting, the time between turns has rarely been an issue. In a game like Tasty Humans, each player is primarily lost in their own world of puzzle-solving. This is an example of how simple playtesting of a change can trump what you, as the designer, “thinks” will be the effect. The Race to the Finish.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 15, 2019

In my Tasty Humans Designer Diary posts so far, I have focused on the puzzle aspect of the game. The design process really started with the puzzle. At this point, I have playtested Tasty Humans over fifty times. Later, I tackled the question of how players select which adventurers they will eat. Final Thoughts.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

A dense randomized mini-chess puzzle where everything matters. 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. So what did she want then?

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