Balance Bug Playtesting 
Logic Simplified
AUGUST 14, 2023
One vital approach used during game development is playtesting. So, what is playtesting and how is it an essential part of game development? What is a playtest? A playtest is a method to see what works in terms of gameplay mechanics. Let’s find out.
PreMortem.Games
JULY 1, 2024
Intricate things Reflecting on the development of Nirvana Noir , Anthony admits that it’s quite the challenge to develop a game free of bugs. Our first game, Genesis Noir, released with its fair share of bugs. We felt awful whenever we got a bug report and it was exhausting to fix them all.
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PreMortem.Games
MARCH 30, 2023
We had three very different games that we spent around two weeks on each, developing them up to a point where we could playtest them with other people”, says Mason. ” “First impressions are very important, so when playtesting we wanted to see how long it took players to understand how the minigame worked”, he continues.
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 20, 2023
We had three very different games that we spent around two weeks on each, developing them up to a point where we could playtest them with other people”, says Mason. ” “First impressions are very important, so when playtesting we wanted to see how long it took players to understand how the minigame worked”, he continues.
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. You help balance out each others’ weaknesses. Will was also lead story writer for Tower.
Radiator Blog
MARCH 16, 2023
It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. They still need to balance this pre-production with finishing the studio's other projects too. What's the balance?
Sirlin
OCTOBER 20, 2015
Though you might as well wait until next week because there will be a balance update within a week. Within a couple days, I plan to post a big update to the Codex print-and-play version (for $25+ patrons) that has dozens of balance changes based on the last month of playtesting.
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