iXie gaming

MAY 3, 2024

Exploratory testing helps uncover the sneaky bugs that may slip through a more structured testing approach. During an exploratory session, you may encounter a bug that causes your game to crash. This form of testing evaluates the basic functions, including gameplay mechanics, menus, controls, and user interfaces. The outcome?

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Different teams collaborate – writers shape the narrative, engineers discuss technical details, artists align visuals, and developers plan in-game mechanics. Play testers explore the game, checking for bugs, rendering issues, and exploitable features. After months of bug fixing and polishing, the game is ready for distribution.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

What’s more, it helps you identify glitches, bugs, and other issues that may impact your console game performance. Here’s how you can ensure thorough functional testing for your console game: Test all game features, functionalities, and mechanics to ensure they perform as intended. This enhances the overall quality of your game.

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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. Each level also had unique mechanics and art styles that all tied into a cohesive whole.

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 4, 2023

For month after month, I tried fixing them with different supporting mechanisms, different ways that cards were obtained, different ways damage was dealt, and a lot more, but nothing really fixed the fundamental problem. Once I realized that we were going to have to ditch the core mechanism, that kind of meant something like starting over.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Also, define your game’s genre, interaction modes, and gameplay mechanics. Prototyping  Create a minimum viable product or a prototype to assess your multiplayer game’s core mechanics. During this phase, frequent iteration and playtesting are crucial in finetuning the multiplayer experience. 

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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. A few different mechanics For a game about fishing stuff out of the water, Dredge is surprisingly light on fishing mechanics. Even with no tutorial. seconds.

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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. A few different mechanics For a game about fishing stuff out of the water, Dredge is surprisingly light on fishing mechanics. Even with no tutorial. seconds.

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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. Sarah: I’m the one who makes the early prototypes and I’m in charge of the playtesting.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

We must understand (and preferably help create and document) the game as a whole: from core mechanics to level design to cinematics, and everything in between. Wrangling a dialogue system, from data entry all the way through to troubleshooting or bug fixing, is a common requirement. This is a clip of the Heider-Simmel animation.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you're familiar with some of Kristala's backstory and lore, you may already know that the general aesthetic for our rodent-like Kotakayans takes inspiration from a sort of mechanical, steampunk vibe, which you can definitely see in the weapons Nick designed below. Take a look! What do you think?

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