Playtesting & Feedback

Step 1: Design Process

• Begin designing your next game

• Constraints

  • You must implement a new mechanic

  • You must have new, coherent assets

  • Your level must demonstrate some level and aesthetic design

Step 2: What is Ideation?

• Coming up with ideas & picking the best ones

• Coming up with ideas is at the heart of design!

Step 3: Mood board

• What is a mood board?

Step 4: Why do we playtest games?

• To ensure the best quality for the games.

• We design complex systems which need to be balanced and tuned.

• Remember the 4ft basket? Playtesting can help you adjust the basket at 10ft.

• We don’t know if something is fun unless we play it.

• Aesthetics come from the players, there is no game without players

Step 5: Incorporating feedback

• Think about where the problem is emerging from.

  • Fix the leak, don’t keep mopping the floor!

• Games are systems so look at the problem holistically

• Make one change at a time and keep playtesting

Step 6: Pitching a game

• What is your idea

• What other stuff is it like?

• What themes does it have?

• What is gameplay like?

Step 7: Communicate quickly and effectively

• A+B with C

• Use MDA framework

• Show Aesthetic Design via Mood board

• Make us excited to play this game (Confidence!)

Step 8: Let's create Google slides (sharable link) and practice your pitching

• Prepare a 2 minute game pitch

• Make a google slide document to pitch your game

• Include the following:

• A+B with C

• What MDA framework

• Show Aesthetic Design

• Make us excited to play this game

Conclusion: You will be presenting your Roblox map to your class next week!