Pre-Development Playtesting: Finding the Right Game to Make Learn all about the importance of starting playtesting even before work on your game begins, and how to do so. ... »
Concept Testing at PlaytestCloud: How Studios Use It, and Why How can Concept Testing help my studio? What problems can it solve? What questions can it answer? And what different setups can you achieve with it? ... »
Introducing: Player Interviews, Our New Service Player Interviews, is our new service that will allow you to easily find and speak to your desired players, giving you unprecedented access to the people you’re making your game for. More than 1.000.000 players in our global player panel will be available to you, at the distance of a few clicks. ... »
Analyzing player interviews - Making sense of the data Playtests generate a lot of data. From interviews alone, you may have hours of players' thoughts and opinions to wade through. This can feel overwhelming, and it’s easy to get bogged down. How do we make sense of that, and work out what really matters? ... »
Running great player interviews - Making the most of your time with players Running interviews as part of your playtesting can offer a direct view into what is happening in players’ brains. This allows us to diagnose exactly what they are thinking, and understand the behavior we see in games - helping us make good game design decisions. ... »
Overcome the fear - preparing for your first player interview How to be confident that you’re deploying interviews at the right time, ensure you’ll learn useful things to improve your game, and remove the risk of catastrophic failures during your interviews. ... »
Asking Follow-up Questions to Your Players It's a little known fact that PlaytestCloud provides a way to get additional answers from the players who test your games. So, if you want to ask a player a follow-up question, it's possible to ask them directly with the Ask the player more questions button in the player tab of the video player. ... »
Recap: The games we played in 2022 Ever wonder what games we play when we’re ‘off the clock’? From Elden Ring to Marvel Snap, here’s an inside look at the games that really got us this year! ... »
Why You Should Playtest Ads for Your Mobile Game Learn how and why game developers should playtest ads for their mobile games ... »
How to use "Bad" Playtests With PlaytestCloud you don’t have to feel like reading the tea leaves – we’re more than happy to help you better understand all byproducts of your playtest. Below you’ll find a few examples on how developers and researchers are utilizing “bad apples” to learn from ill wind. ... »
PlaytestCloud user Metacore’s Merge Mansion reaches 30m installs and $135m revenue Learn how early playtesting with PlaytestCloud helped Metacore scale and expand their portfolio. ... »
Six Reasons to Join PlaytestCloud As a company, we at PlaytestCloud are aware of the choices and preferences of today’s workforce and have oriented our organization to deliver value to our employees and make them thrive. Have a look at six specific reasons we believe help us stand out. ... »