I’m excited to share with you my speech and slides from the presentation I gave at the Narrative Summit, Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, on Monday 19th March, 2018. EDIT: The video of my talk is also now (as of 2020) available publicly on Youtube (see embedded below), and at the GDC Vault (currently
https://soundcloud.com/christydena/i-love-playful-testing-blog-post-audio-narration Many of you will be familiar with playtesting, or at least testing. You sit there with a notepad and pen, watching players play your game. You write observations, you may get the players to “think-aloud,” and then afterwards you interview them, and then debrief with your team. Tracey Fullerton describes playtesting as “something that
“The reasonable person adapts themself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to them. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable person.” George Bernard Shaw “Maxims for Revolutionists” Man and Superman (1903) [pronouns changed] The way we make and what we (and our audiences) find appealing about our creative