The Beginners Guide to Playtesting Games

Alexia Mandeville
Bootcamp
Published in
4 min readDec 29, 2021

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Playtesting is an imperative part of the iterative process. You’ll need to learn how to do it effectively in order to make a great game.

The feedback you get from playtesting shouldn’t derail you from your vision. Instead, it should be used strategically by finding the correct audience and analyzing the trends you see within the feedback to adjust gameplay mechanics, user interface, and…

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