What is Playtesting?

How To Playtest

Sprint Plan

Review and Redesign

Playtesting is more than just asking people if your game is fun. It's a structured process for collecting useful information about specific parts of your design. In this project you will learn why Playtesting helps you collect useful information on your design and how to execute the entire process. 

Playtesting

Course Introduction and Planning

Game Jams and Skilling Up

Set your goals and find your community

What is the Design Process? 

Scope

Constraints and Our Theme

Concentric Design

Why Prototype? 

Assets shouldn't be liabilities

The Stages of Game Development

Planning your project

CRC Cards

Your First Milestone: Vertical Slice

Why Agile?

Vertical Slice - Part Two

Refactoring

Sprint Planning

Alpha Build

How to Release your Game

Alpha and Beyond

Bonus Content

In this project you will learn about what's ahead for you on your journey to finishing a game! You'll also get a chance to confirm that you have the right knowledge and skills to get the most out of the course, along with links to useful resources that will help you on your way. You will also learn how to equip yourself for your journey, and meet some of your fellow adventurers.

Goal Setting and Community Building

In this project you will learn about using a design process to take your idea from a broad concept into a finished, polished game, the concept of scope will help you achieve your goal of making a game, how constraints can help you create rules to keep you in scope,  and how to use the specific design process, concentric design.

The Design Process

In this project you will find out if your game idea is fun through Prototyping. You will also learn how to make a plan for assets you will use in your game – the sounds, images, models, animations and other resources that make up a game – to avoid nasty surprises later in development. 

Prototyping

In this project you will learn how to keep a sense of the big picture by dividing the game development process into stages and milestones, hit your first major milestone in the development of a game through creating a vertical slice, and learn two planning tools you can use to plot a course to a finished game. 

Milestones

Agile Development

Professional teams schedule some time for code cleanup after each milestone so their code stays flexible and easy to work with. This project will give you some tips and general principles for this process, known as refactoring. With your vertical slice done and your code in good shape, this is where you’ll start down the road to alpha.

Writing Better Code

In this project you will learn how to release your game, what the next steps are after game release, and additional tips for getting to the end. 

Release your game

Lots of people start games, but it’s surprisingly hard to finish one. This course guides you through the process used by professional game makers to develop their ideas, keep their projects on track and deliver a complete, released game. 

 that will help you quickly design and prototype your games. These resources can accelerate your development process and help you achieve your goal of releasing a polished game!

Design and Publish Your Original Game: Unity USC Games Unlocked

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Receiving Feedback

Assignment: Game Build after Playtest

What's Next?

https://play.unity.com/en/games/caec7bc9-dcf8-45d4-beac-ff3364ea265b/kat-murr-coffee-gallery

Kat Murr Coffee Gallery

Katmurr

https://play.unity.com/es/games/11e9d8c1-1fec-42ac-a481-5722f1b84a65/equiilibrista

Construcción del juego después de la prueba de juego

Agustin Dominguez

Improved scene transitions and light feature.

https://thecodeisbugged.itch.io/brain-out-dungeon

Brain-Out Dungeon by TheCodeIsBugged - Google Chrome 2024-10-15 18-31-08.mp4

Bugs Fixed, Build Version 5

unity_ABBB8FB9151B27AEEBC3

High Command 2024-09-13 11-39-39.mp4

High Command

Arcane_Creator

i don't want change in my territory or what yet sorry =(

Movie_001.mp4

no my game and so good 

safasfafsagj

Kura - MainScene - Windows, Mac, Linux - Unity 2022.3.13f1 _DX11_ 2024-04-23 20-47-00 (online-video-cutter.com).mp4

Game Build 

kot88murmansk

After another month only on this project I did it: All feedbacks from the playtests before are implemented. And I did more: Now a Skill-System is implemented and all levels are overworked that you need all Skills to finish the game with 100 % after doing the mainquest and the side quest. 

Crashlands 2D big Update and free to play, downloadlink in the description

Crashlands 2D - Final Version after Playtesting

Christian Alexander Gartner

Spooky Things

RoaaK

Receiving_Feedback.mp4

In this tutorial you will review and implement the feedback that you received from your peers in order to make finals improvements to your game.

Unity + USC Games Unlocked

Games

You're in the home stretch – this is your last pre-alpha build.

Most playtests result in a long list of bugs to fix and design choices to tweak. That will be the focus of your efforts this week, but you'll also continue to add content and fix bugs as you journey towards the last milestone in this course – alpha.

That said, if you’re still struggling to get some cool feature working, you’ll need to drastically simplify it or drop it. Pretending you can get it done doesn’t mean that you can, and the goal is still a finished game. You’re going to release it next week in whatever condition it’s in.

When you’ve turned in your build, you’ll be assigned to look at a classmate’s build and do a quick check-in about whether they seem to be on track. And next week, you’ll release your game.

Provide feedback to at least two other course member’s submissions. 

In the next module you’ll release your game! You’ll hear from our guests about what it feels like to put a game out into the world and let it go. And you’ll get some ideas about what to do next after this course!   

Review and Redesign

1. Receiving Feedback

2. Assignment: Game Build after Playtest

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3. What's Next?