iXie gaming

OCTOBER 3, 2023

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. This process can be done at different phases of game development. This ensures more efficient and customized solutions to the game.

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Bug Mechanics Beta Playtesting 52

Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

The amount of content variety offered by the original Garrison design was more suited to a lower visitation rate, not the “I’m going to play almost my entire run inside these things” which it had become for some people. Sample Garrison content list from Beta 11. It’d sure be nice to resolve that!

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 14, 2023

Inonu, Polyak, and Dymshits agreed that developers should also explore subscription products and leveraging IP outside of games, as well as re-investing in brand marketing and original game design. Fun generates retention, he said, stating that game designers should think of their games as becoming a daily player habit.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Player feedback French solo dev Matthieu Houllier , operating under the name Brute Force , has been making games by himself for five years. Because Houllier is working alone, he needs players feedback to shape his games. I prioritize creating content based on what I believe will facilitate the games marketing efforts, he explains.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

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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Balance Mechanics Beta Prototyping 52

PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2024

Since childhood, Nicot always had a fascination with video games, but when it was time to pick a career, game designer wasn’t on the radar. He went into transportation management, but game development never really left his mind. The Sanctua game design document was 95% complete before I started coding.

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Dev Games Co-op Game Design 239

Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

Chai showed me what a Tabletop Simulator workshop creation needed, atmosphere, quality and a well-designed workshop page. Chai was the first game on the workshop to have a custom environment akin to the Tabletop Simulator DLC’s (downloadable content). This made the Tabletop Simulator creation stand out and it showed.

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Simulation Games Demo Playtesting 130

Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The first question around non-PVP content (single player campaign, Zombies) was resourcing: non-PVP content required the most development heads and was the least retentive in the long term, since players tended to not return after completing it.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

SPOILER ALERT: This post spoils what happens in the game. CONTENT WARNING 1: I mention a suicide from a century ago. CONTENT WARNING 2: the game is rather explicit, but I've kept the imagery in this post relatively tame, at a semi-NSFW / soft-R rating. It also spoils a bit of Bioshock Infinite (2013) because why not.

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