Lecture with Steve Bromley

Steve Bromley

Twitter: Steve_Bromley

Career:

• worked at PlayStation for 5 years
• Runs studies and help games teams integrate user testing into their development process
• Ran the games user testing research mentoring team for 5 years
  • https://gamesuserresearch.com/
  • https://grux.org/

What is usability testing?

What should they understand?

What should players be able to do?

Where should the challenge be, and how should it be experienced?

Risk: These are our assumptions!

We can be proven right or wrong and it is important to keep an open mind.

Difficulty - Action capabilities should be correlated with Action opportunities. Without this relationship, making sure these features are fine tuned, the game will become boring.

Playtest Structure: