Jumpstart Your Playtesting
A free (!) practical two-hour workshop designed for small game teams who want to start playtesting more confidently.
- Free
- Two hours
- Capped at 10 participants
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We cover the fundamentals of planning, running, and making sense of a useful playtest. You’ll also walk through a playtest planning exercise with me to create a roadmap for collecting player feedback.
The goal is simple: you’ll leave with a concrete playtesting plan and feel ready to run a focused, useful test on your next build.
A few things to get right
You absolutely can learn a lot from just a few players. But you do need to get a few things right.
- Rule #1
Know what you want to learn
A few focused questions beat a mountain of scattered feedback.
- Rule #2
Test with the “right” players
The closer your testers are to strangers who’ll find your game on Steam (or whatever platform your game is on), the better.
- Rule #3
Stay neutral & focus on behaviors (not opinions)
Your job is to stay neutral, not help. The game has to communicate without you.
Read the full guide: how to playtest your game.
Mariya Vizireanu, PhD
Senior Research Consultant, Vibe Insights Lab · Former Research Manager, Rec Room
Mariya has spent a decade as a researcher, five of those years embedded in game studios. At Rec Room she led more than 50 qualitative and quantitative studies as Research Manager, and at Jam City she led the concept testing behind greenlight decisions for more than ten mobile titles.
Happy playtesting!
Join the waitlistWant more depth and 1:1 feedback on your own game? See the two-week game playtesting course.
