About 'Playtesting Your Game'!

[ben]

• Having someone else play test your game is vital
• Silently take notes, or record screen if possible
• Immediately go away and fix obvious bugs
• For improvements consider 2nd or 3rd opinion
• Repeat until the bug / issue rate plateaus.

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[Danny5]

One tip I would say is try not to tell a playtester how to play the game (within reason depending on what stage the game is actually in). I did this a lot with business applications when I first started it was basically me testing through someone else which didn’t help. If the users can’t figure it out without you telling them what they need to do it usually means you need to work on something like a better tutorial, help prompts, UI, etc.