AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2025

AWS presented playable ads for Ludeo and powering Xsollas game streaming service, to game streaming smart TVs for JackBox Games and a time-saving proof of concept playtesting workflow for Epic Games. Image 2: GDC 2025 attendees demo Amazon GameLift Streams. Learn more about the AWS for Games GDC 2025 demos.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 27, 2020

Two groups that come to mind are the Tabletop Game Playtesters Guild and Card & Board Game Designers Guild. Create a feedback form and online demo, then advertise and offer prizes. You can make your game testable online by either creating a print-and-play game or a Tabletop Simulator demo. Finally, go in prepared.

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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. Thanks to playtesters JoyModulo and Spootnik for playtesting and feedback, and thanks to Fairweather for organizing and additional QA. Blood Gulch!

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 1, 2023

Everyone must be online from 14h to 18h on Discord because this is ‘when things get done’ and we can all do brainstorms, playtests and all that.” The company started creating multiplayer games because the founding members wanted to playtest games together. ” Play the Atomic Picnic demo on Steam. says Lamhut laughing.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

I’ve talked about how you can create a Tabletop Simulator demo for your own game before. My first creation was a demo of Blight Chronicles: Agent Decker for their Kickstarter which was simple but functional. Without a shadow of a doubt, we can say that Tabletop Simulator demos have been beneficial.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

Every iteration of each game has to be created somehow and there are A LOT of iterations – usually a new one after each playtest, especially in the beginning. Whenever I demo or playtest, I make sure to get the email address of the person, so I can inform them when the Kickstarter starts.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2025

If the prototype gets approved, the team ramps more and builds an entire playable demo that demonstrates all of the major game systems at work. Really early on, you only have one to five senior devs working on building a prototype for the approved pitches.

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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. Getting a demo out well ahead of the release date allowed the team to receive feedback and make some changes ahead of time. 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. Getting a demo out well ahead of the release date allowed the team to receive feedback and make some changes ahead of time. Even with no tutorial. seconds.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I also released the demo on Steam early (after invite-only playtesting) so I can gather feedback from real players. “I take my dog for a walk and listen to podcasts about gamedev to get in the right space of mind. I play games (old and new) to get inspiration and bounce ideas off my wife and friends.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 16, 2023

In our team everyone has different roles in coding, design and testing, but at the end of the day we comment on each other’s work in playtests.” This was a big obstacle to overcome which we solved by organizing bug nights and getting as many people to play our early demos and get as much feedback as possible.”

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 1, 2024

This time around we’re putting a lot more time and resources into playtesting and catching problems early.” Nirvana Noir is ‘coming soon’, but you can already try out the demo. 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

JULY 22, 2024

For feedback, opt for playtests or betas instead. ” Whether it’s wishlisting your game, joining your mailing list, or playing the demo, make sure to direct your audience explicitly. “Once somebody can lay money down and get your game, the die is cast, the concrete is set,” states Zukowski.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 11, 2018

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. There might be a room for playtesting prototypes at some cons, but they are often small and not very well attended.

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Radiator Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Meanwhile, Sony is happy with the VR demo, and the studio is getting more experienced with Unreal. Episode 08: "A Couple Years of Hard Work" is when they make their first in-engine prototype demo to figure out environment art and player locomotion. Sharp criticism and failure is what hones your design sense.

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Grid Sage Games

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

I’ll be streaming a run in this layout as well, once the build is ready… Extra Credit With playtesting having only just begun, I’m sure these layouts could use some more polish here and there, but they seem in a really good place already.

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

This extended infrastructure provides a developer platform for studios and publishers to perform their game development virtually, starting with playtesting. With GeForce NOW Cloud Playtest, players and observers can be anywhere in the world. All this is possible with Cloud Playtest on the GeForce NOW Developer Platform.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Demo: A short guide to contributing to Godot's editor | Gilles Roudière ( groud ). Workshop: 2D game workshop/demo | Leszek Nowak ( John Meadow ). Leszek will demo the development of a 2D game with audience interaction. Demo: Showcase and insights into the new TPS demo | Juan Linietsky ( reduz ).

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Rindoku

OCTOBER 7, 2016

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! Fix the problems we identified during the playtest. Make the demo bigger and better. I’m pretty sure we’ll be doing some more playtests in the near future.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 9, 2019

We finally got to a point in 2014 when he said, “I think we’ve done enough, we can start playtesting it.” ” I would say the demo copy is extremely important. We had no experience in the game industry. We spent 3.5 years working on it as a hibby, meeting occasionally. Brandon: Yeah, that’s a really good point.

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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. Once I feel that a solution is clear enough, I tend to get a sudden impulse to start making it, so I just follow that urge.”

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Since then, we've been laser-focused on our next big milestone: completing the entire vertical slice for Kristala.Which means we're inching closer and closer to the official release of the game's demo too. Both the Nisargan Impaler and Rosethorne swords Cass worked on this sprint will be available to you in the Kristala demo.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

An ancient demo image from Cogmind pre-alpha with a deteriorating item state listed on a hypothetical item. They will likely get some tweaks after playtesting, and purely from a theoretical design standpoint I think it may be necessary to at least require that charged items remain attached to retain their charge. We shall see.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

As is the changes are too new and we’ll have to see what real playtesting turns up. So yes this was another of those early “purely because we could” things without any playtesting or strong design basis, and it eventually showed. Trap Extractor demo. Fine tuning. I look forward to trying these out myself!

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 11, 2024

I decided that launching a demo of my game was going to be beneficial and I made sure to get as much reach as possible.” She used it both as a marketing and playtesting tool. Launch disruption Gittins undertook extensive exploration and study to determine the best strategies for her game’s launch. “I

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 14, 2024

Setting arbitrary deadlines if you don’t have any actual ones, like telling a friend to come over for a demo session.” With my new project I will do A LOT more playtesting early on and also maybe art testing. Better to just move on to some other problem that’s easier to solve and tackle the hard one another time.

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