PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 30, 2025

Eugene, the solo developer behind Voidmaw , has spent three years crafting Katanaut , a fast-paced action-roguelite where players embody a katana-wielding astronaut fighting to escape a collapsing space station. And of course, balancing everything like coding, art, marketing, and playtesting can be exhausting.

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Development Playtesting Prototyping Point and Click 138

Radiator Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Like a lot of Counter-Strike Source, it often feels more like a game engine tech demo rather than something for humans to play. They are still key areas for gameplay with major fights. Thanks to playtesters JoyModulo and Spootnik for playtesting and feedback, and thanks to Fairweather for organizing and additional QA.

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Fighting Texture Playtesting Balance 234

Brand Game Development

JUNE 11, 2018

You fight to take the throne either through military conquest or economic prowess. Emelie: Exactly, I also think smaller cons are better to build an initial audience as it is easier to spend more time per visitor at the booth and there is more time to demo your game as well. Do you want to have an open box with a demo set up?

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Prototyping Games Localization Demo 130

Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Everything would work out as designed if the player started fighting in the new area but of course players will surprise you. Some people finished the demo level in 4-5 minutes. You’re working in a bubble for 12 hours a day to get that last build ready for the demo and then suddenly: BOOM! Make the demo bigger and better.

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Point and Click Dev Demo Playtesting 52

PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Feedback from playtest sessions with friends or players is really important. Plus, hearing from people who played the demo, really like the game, and want to talk about the details of it is the best. One that could run, jump, swing, climb, fly, flip and fight in a fluid way. Especially early-on.

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Dev Development Sandbox Indy 138

Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

So I reimagined them yet again, taking into account their unique targeting mechanics and what that means when fighting other bots. As is the changes are too new and we’ll have to see what real playtesting turns up. Trap Extractor demo. The biggest change there was simply yet more significant damage buffs. Fine tuning.

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Balance Mechanics Beta Prototyping 52