Saturday 23 June 2018

2018 Writing Salon: Playtesting 1

This post is part of the 2018 "If You Write It, They Will Come" AIF Writing Salon

Games are an interactive medium. The final experience is a combination of player choices and your writing. Unless you're experienced enough to be able to anticipate how players will react to your game, you need to playtest your game to find out if players are experiencing the game in the way you intended.

For the first couple of playtests, your game will just a skeleton. It will be playable but incomplete. You should use these playtests to find missing parts of your game and fill them in. You should think of alternate choices that players can make at different points in the game and write the text for them.


Just post any changes you want in the comments in the form of more transcripts or using more detailed instructions if necessary.