Playtesting with a Purpose

JO Choi, J Forlizzi, M Christel, R Moeller… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
… We show how purposeful playtesting, designing playtests to … for purposeful playtesting,
novices can leverage playtest … goals, and effectively applying playtest data in iterative design. We …

Prototyping and Playtesting

D Allcoat - Meaningful Game Design - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter looked at various options and stages of prototyping the game so that it can be
playtested. Game creation often involves multiple iterations of prototypes, and different tools, …

Design for research results: experimental prototyping and play testing

MP Eladhari, EMI Ollila - Simulation & Gaming, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
… The purpose of this article is to provide a navigation aid through this process. Various methods
of prototyping and types of prototypes are described, along with considerations regarding …

Challenges in game development: Playtesting and prototyping as important steps in game development

T Viktorov - 2015 - theseus.fi
… The purpose of this research is to find out how the prototyping and playtesting approaches
… as the game development methodology and the playtesting part. The research case is a 3D …

Play-testing and requirements engineering: implications for research and teaching

M Daneva - 2015 IEEE/ACM 2nd International Workshop on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… scale game systems, play-testing is an important activity that … on RE or software engineering
addresses play-testing as a … skills that build upon play-testing practices happening in the …

Playtesting: what is beyond personas

S Ariyurek, E Surer, A Betin-Can - IEEE Transactions on Games, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… The utility function serves the same purpose as in procedural personas. … to playtest a casual
Monster Killer, the game designer may set a health threshold as the criterion; and to playtest

[PDF][PDF] Automated Playtesting In Videogames

PM Negrão - 2020 - run.unl.pt
… Framework Architecture: In this section it is presented the purpose of the proposed
framework and also the path taken to achieve the final framework. After the introduction of the …

Improving the design of a learning game through intrinsic integration and playtesting

AR Denham - Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2016 - Springer
… development approach centered on playtesting, with the purpose of ensuring the … purpose
of this study was to explore how to improve an educational game by focusing on playtesting

Comparison of playtesting and expert review methods in mobile game evaluation

H Korhonen - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
… User testing or playtesting is the most popular evaluation method, and it is also described …
Pagulayan et al. have conducted playtesting by using open-ended tasks. The purpose of these …

A postmortem on playtesting: Exploring the impact of playtesting on the critical reception of video games

P Mirza-Babaei, S Stahlke, G Wallner… - Proceedings of the 2020 …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
… to the results of pre-release playtesting for each game, we aim to highlight the value of
playtesting and propose a set of guidelines for selecting playtest methods based on the needs of …