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7 Odd Roadblocks Rookies Face In The Stages Of Game Development

Big Games

Play testers explore the game, checking for bugs, rendering issues, and exploitable features. Before jumping into creating a game, it’s vital to answer critical questions about the game’s type, features, characters, target audience, and platform. Playtesters are vital in finding bugs, glitches, and potential issues.

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Gameplay Testing: What Is It and How Does It Work? 

iXie gaming

Gameplay testing , also called playtesting, is the process of having testers play a game to identify issues, collect feedback, and enhance its quality before official release. It assesses a particular service or feature of a game by setting multiple data values and variables to the game and running it in the runtime environment.

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“Post-Balance” Cogmind Item Expansion

Grid Sage Games

items” that was chosen back during alpha when it was first created. Although introduced in pre-alpha as a potential balance mechanism, this was only ever used for one item (Dirty Datajack!), An ancient demo image from Cogmind pre-alpha with a deteriorating item state listed on a hypothetical item. We shall see.

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Rebalancing Cogmind

Grid Sage Games

The first part of this so-called “Great Utility Update” began during Alpha 12 with a few fundamental mechanical changes, but since then the project remained on the to-do list until 1) even more content was added to the game, and 2) we collected more info about what items people were and were not using, and why. Fine tuning.

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Garrisons 2.0

Grid Sage Games

Garrisons were originally added to Cogmind in the months after the first Alpha release in 2015 (see an overview here ) as an optional location for players to visit, adding a unique extra dimension to the world to answer the question “what if I infiltrate these things where many enemy squads come from?” ” issue.

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Two brothers behind MystiveDev build bodycam survival-horror Chasmal Fear

PreMortem.Games

As we are still in early alpha, that may change in the future though. A standout feature of Chasmal Fear is the multiple player choices system and randomized events. “Talk with the players and do lots of playtesting. . “Most of the creatures you see are mutants. Then, analyze their feedback.

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Year 10 of the Cogmind

Grid Sage Games

, though definitely less so outside that, as evidenced in part by the lower blog activity until very recently :P This trend held in 2023, in fact marking the first time I’ve spent more than twice as much time on building Cogmind rather than doing other supporting work since the pre-alpha days! All your base are belong to us.

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