nic

game? designer??

  • they/them

various credits on:
The Banished Vault
Arcsmith
John Wick Hex
Quarantine Circular
Subsurface Circular
Vienna Automobile Society
Sun Dogs

 

P&P microgames:
In the Court of the Skeleton King
The Garden
Tallships

 
Chicago



lcsrzl
@lcsrzl asked:

What's position do you have on playtesting and user research? How often, with whom do you playtest; what sort of things are you looking to gain from them?

Playtesting is indispensable, but the goals and methodology can vary a lot. For external folks I typically do self-reported playtests (ie, not literally looking over their shoulder) but if we're playing internally it's very easy to screenshare.

You can basically test for anything so usually the goal is to evaluate a specific portion of the game, typically for me it's the tutorials and general system understanding. These are the areas I am not the best at so it takes some iteration. For The Banished Vault we also understood the game wasn't for everyone, so a lot of feedback was negative (our friends and family being honest!) but was generally still pointing us in the right direction.


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