Answering Your Playtesting Questions

Описание: 🏥 support IGC on Patreon:   / indiegameclinic  
GMTK on Valve's Playtesting:
   • Valve's "Secret Weapon"  

FFWWDD article: https://schellgames.com/blog/the-defi...

00:00 greetings

TOPIC 1: PLAYTESTING DOS AND DON'TS
01:50 my first playtesting experiences
04:17 "Kleenex testing" vs deeper testing
06:16 having a clear methodology
07:18 record the problems, not solutions
08:40 GMTK's video on Valve's testing methods
09:44 observation, not conversation
11:13 Schell's FFWWD method for tester questioning
14:38 understand who your playtesters are
16:16 when your playtesters are (wannabe) designers

TOPIC 2: HOW TO GET PLAYTESTERS IN THE FIRST PLACE
17:08 section start
17:24 itch.io playtesting groups and jams
18:44 "give first mentality" and "what's in it for them"?

23:36 RECAP
26:31 About this Channel

👨🏽‍⚕️ About the Creator:
Joe "Doc" Baxter-Webb is a holder of a PhD in Media & Cultural Studies. He has taught hundreds of undergrad and masters-level students how to make games and other creative media. His teaching style and focus comes from a decade of working in the games industry as a game designer, producer, and studio creative lead. Indie Game Clinic is a channel dedicated to helping people make better games, by focusing on game design and creative direction (instead of the usual focus on technology and marketing). The Indie Game Clinic has a Discord community which is currently only open to developers whose games have featured on Indies Under the Knife, and to patrons who support the channel through Patreon on YouTube Channel Memberships:   / indiegameclinic  . The intention of this limitation is to create a small and skilled community of game designers working at an intermediate or above level, while avoiding the usual issues with open game developer communities - i.e. that they are awash with attention-seeking self-promotional spam and beginner "JFGI" questions.