Blog comment #1 Wiktor Ravndal

https://whitechocoboy.wordpress.com/2018/02/08/spooky-fishy/
According to the picture, i think it does creates a horrible atmosphere to me, especially the teeth and the point light from the eye. However, since the player are chasing by the fish, will it still see the rest of the body? The bloody body of the fish also reflects it’s a dangerous creature. It would be a pity if i can’t see the whole body because i die immediately when touching the mouth of the fish. Another […]

Design Feedback – 5

I like this blog post for several reasons. The main reason is how open you are with the game’s state and your role as a scrum master/product owner. That you can look at yourself and critique is a very crucial thing to do in order to learn. We all struggle, sometimes more, sometimes less. I think you will benefit from this and take this experience and make something valuable out of it.
It is never a good feeling when you know […]

The best guidance: Play Testing

During the process of the project, we held two official playing testing session for each team’s game. One before the Alpha presentation, the other before Beta. I have to admit, we acquired lots of valuable feedback and settled decisions we may take plenty of time to decide.
The thing that been contributed most is the balancing of the game. As the team members, we were all way too familiar with the features of the game. We know very timing of using […]

Playtest

Playtesting

Hello Everyone!
Playtesting our game is very important, said the teachers to us very early in this program and I thought to myself ”Why? cant you just test the game yourself to see the flaws in it”.
I couldnt been more wrong..  We learned especially in this course how important it really is. Playtesting really helped us develop a better game.
We started by playing it ourselves, to see what we thought were good thing about it, what needed a bit tweeking and […]

Playtesting in our game

My own playtesting
First off, I wanna talk about the playtesting I do on my own while programming. Unity gives some good tools and functionality when testing, mainly the console(for debugging) and the ability to adjust variables while running the game in the inspector. This makes it way easier to balance certain features, and also just compare the game feel with different values for variables, like for movement.
This is somewhere I hope to improve though, to use the tools unity provides, […]

Dev Blog 5, Playtesting

This week I will be writing about how playtesting of our game has affected our development.
Coming in to the first session, our game wasn’t in a very playable state. Several mechanics were unclear and some of them weren’t completely implemented. This meant that testers had a hard time seeing what we were trying to accomplish with the design, and a lot of feedback was therefore useless. However, there were some useful takeaways for me.
The first takeaway was that we needed […]

Is it boaty enough?

Testing is the backbone of any iterative project. Without testing, the product won’t improve. That’s why, in our project, there has been two major testing occasions where other students are supposed to test our game; one for the alpha and one for the beta release. In addition to the main test events, we are continuously testing within the group. I’ve also had the opportunity to let friends outside of campus test the game.
The player’s perspective
Some of the tutorial hints from the […]

Playtesting

Since the start of this project, we have had two opportunities to let teachers and other students playtest our game. These two sessions have had an immense positive effect on the development of our game.
Even if we playtested the game several times ahead, checked for bugs, searched for errors and wrongs, we were still too blind to see all the glitches that needed to be fixed. Working on the same game for weeks, makes it eventually difficult to spot […]

Playtesting

Having our game played by other students has been a great opportunity for us to receive a lot of constructive feedback, which was taken into consideration and later analyzed in order to make the right adjustments to the game mechanics in accordance with the advice we received following the playtesting session. Being one of the developers of a video game means that you often get the opportunity to playtest it in the hopes of finding bugs or other strange behaviors […]

Blog #5: How playtesting shaped one of our core mechanics

Hello and welcome again to my blog!
I am Léo and Scrum Master of Team Wendigo. Today, I will talk about playtesting and how it has affected the development of our game, “Umibōzu”. Playtesting is a crucial part of game development. Whether a mechanic is “fun” in a game is often discovered through the iterative and incremental nature provided by the Scrum framework (check out my blog post on Scrum). The Empiricism principle (“inspect and adapt”) as well […]

Playtesting

For our shoot ‘em up game we have had different play testing where we have shown our game for the other students and had them play it and come with feedback to help improve and see what flaws we have missed in the process of making the game.
It starts with we make the player play through the game, just explaining the controls and keep it very simple so the player can figure out without any instructions. After they have played […]