Editing Playtesting Prototyping 
Brand Game Development
JANUARY 2, 2018
Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation via Facebook Messenger. 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. Carla: There’s making the review prototypes themselves.
Brand Game Development
JUNE 11, 2018
We interviewed via Discord direct messages which have been lightly edited for clarity and flow. Wiscon I’ve attended even early in development to test out ideas, check reactions, and see players interact with everything from paper prototypes to physical, professional printed game versions of State of Wonder.
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Brand Game Development
MARCH 16, 2020
You are not forced to make any edits to your work for any reason. You do the game development and playtesting. You have to spend money making a nice prototype for publishers, sure, but you don’t have to get deep into the behind-the-scenes business processes. Why Self-Publishing is Great. You go find the art.
Interesting Choices
FEBRUARY 25, 2015
I've created an online prototype for playtesting that has seen almost 2000 games completed with at least a dozen players clocking in at over 100 games apiece. The rapid feedback and iteration cycles enabled by this level of playtesting mean that the game is currently in fantastic shape. victory points in the final era.
Deconstructor of Fun
MARCH 14, 2023
You can find edited highlights of each talk below, and videos of each session – just hit play to start watching. Hofree said that she was excited by AI for prototyping, brainstorming and personalising the experience for every player, and Haussila said he was interested in using AI tools to speed up some developer processes.
Brand Game Development
OCTOBER 23, 2017
What follows is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation over DMs in Discord. 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.
PreMortem.Games
JUNE 11, 2024
She taught herself programming and volunteered for indie studios, eventually creating her first prototype, ‘Potions: A Curious Tale’. She used it both as a marketing and playtesting tool. “The main issue why it took so long was I never intended for it to be a commercial product.”
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