Reading Week 11

This assignment has two parts: first, you will read the following material and then you will spend some time browsing the additional course materials to see what grabs your attention. To finish up, you will write up a blog post with your thoughts.

Here we discuss the general concept of playtesting. There are many different kinds of playtesting and it is important to be able to differentiate between them in order to get maximum value from our time. As a designer, it is an important skill to be able to playtest your own creations. It is also important to be able to set up conditions for other people to playtest your games so that you can get useful information from the precious time you have.
Playtesting with gamers is very different from playing with other game designers. Done right, the feedback you can get from players in your target audience is even more meaningful than getting feedback from game designers, because you are seeing firsthand how your game will be experienced by the very kinds of people who will eventually be playing the final version.

Readings

 

(I would suggest forwarding to at least the first minute!)

Additional Readings

Testing

Blog

When you are done browsing, write up a blog post with your thoughts about what you have read
For the blog post, use “Games Testing” in the title, with “Reading”, “Week 11” as the labels, and include at least one image (with image information). Here is the Declaration for Reading:

declaration imageDECLARATION: Reading Options
I spent at least 30 minutes browsing the readings.
I have published a blog post with my notes.
POST TITLE: I used the phrase “Games Testing” in the post title.
POST LABELS: I used the label “Reading”, “Week 11” for the labels.
LINKS: I included at least three links to items of interest, with my thoughts.
IMAGE: I Included at least one image with image information.

 

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