We continue our conversation about the first real playtests of your new game design, this time focusing on what you do to make sense of information from a playtest.

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Music is “Dances and Dames” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Say a thing. Say it again. A design isn’t right the first time, so we revise and restate and iterate. Let’s talk about that.

Do you know about the Game Chef design competition? This time we talk about our experiences with Game Chef and what we know of its history and influence on games and designers.

(Episode forty?! Ye gads.) Here we explore more notions on the topic of your early playtests, and how to get information out of them, make sense of some of it, and prepare for revisions to your design.

We’ve reach that time. Let’s talk about playtesting your design—specifically, how to prep and participate in the early playtests of your RPG.

We've finally reached this critical point. It's time to talk about playtesting your design.

What do you think? Weigh in on the show, your own work, and what you want us to talk about next, via our Google+ Community.

Our podcast is funded via Nathan’s and Will’s Patreon pages at patreon.com/ndpaoletta and patreon.com/wordwill — and our patrons occasionally get bonus episodes, too!

Music is “Dances and Dames” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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We set out to talk about designing games to be ready for hacking and remixing by the end user, but first a stopover at a discussion of universal systems, too. Let it go, Will.

What do you think? Weigh in on the show, your own work, and what you want us to talk about next, via our Google+ Community.

Our podcast is funded via Nathan’s and Will’s Patreon pages at patreon.com/ndpaoletta and patreon.com/wordwill — and our patrons occasionally get bonus episodes, too!

Music is “Dances and Dames” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

We set out to talk about designing games to be ready for hacking and remixing by the end user, but first a stopover at a discussion of universal systems, too. Let it go, Will.

Let’s talk about how a game moves, functions, and adapts. Let’s talk about affordances.

Some game designs are highly visual. When does that work happen? How early is too early to think about art and a visual arrangement of ideas? We talk it out.