Playtesting Puzzle Writing 
PreMortem.Games
DECEMBER 24, 2024
I used ChatGPT heavily while writing the backend Amazon service that handles the daily challenge. Playtesting Patrik Nagy , a 20-year-old software development student from Hungary, began working on simple games at age 12, driven by a passion for programming and game development. No amount of playtesting is ever enough, he says.
Grumpy Gamer
JANUARY 18, 2018
When I write, music is helpful. Lancelot's Hangover: After beta testing, what do you do if you realize a series of puzzles doesn't work. Do you cut off the whole series of the puzzles (meaning wasting time/art/effort)? Do you keep most art and animations but rebuild the whole series of puzzle in a different way?
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Grumpy Gamer
JANUARY 17, 2018
When I write, music is helpful. Lancelot’s Hangover: After beta testing, what do you do if you realize a series of puzzles doesn’t work. Do you cut off the whole series of the puzzles (meaning wasting time/art/effort)? Do you keep most art and animations but rebuild the whole series of puzzle in a different way?
PreMortem.Games
JULY 1, 2024
Evan Anthony: “Alternating between two timelines with such different visual designs, mechanics, and stories has been a real brain puzzle for us. They will have to talk to a diverse set of characters and find clues in dialogues and intricate puzzles, and unravel a conspiracy that could bring the world to its end.
PreMortem.Games
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
All this before there’s ever any playtesting done. It usually starts with a ‘think pad’, which is basically just a google doc where I write down anything to do with a specific game concept. I played around with a few ideas and one of them was a simple cube rolling puzzle game. So I made a shift in puzzle design to negate that.
Brand Game Development
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
On the other hand, playing Tasty Humans has short turns, which helps the game stay snappy even though it’s a brain-burny puzzle game. If you hate the game you’re playtesting, do something different. Don’t just playtest it and refine the mechanics. The mere threat is usually enough to keep the game going.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JULY 2, 2018
After three days of intensive game development and two weeks of playtesting and rating (over 3,500 ratings!), This cute and well-designed pixel art puzzle game snatched the 1 st position in the Gameplay and Graphics and Sound categories, and 2 nd position in the Theme interpretation category ( Overall rating: 4.088).
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