With my cohabitive games (games about negotiation/fragile peace), yeah, I’ve been looking for a very specific kind of playtester.
The ideal playtesters/critics… I can see them so clearly.
One would be a mischievous but warmhearted man who had lived through many conflicts and resolutions of conflicts, he sees the game’s teachings as ranging from trivial to naive, and so he has much to contribute to it. The other playtester would be a frail idealist who has lived a life in pursuit of a rigid, tragically unattainable conception of justice, begging a cruel paradox that I don’t yet know how to untie for them, to whom the game would have much to give. It’s my belief that if these two people played a game of OW v0.1, then OW 1.0 would immediately manifest and ship itself.
With my cohabitive games (games about negotiation/fragile peace), yeah, I’ve been looking for a very specific kind of playtester.
The ideal playtesters/critics… I can see them so clearly.
One would be a mischievous but warmhearted man who had lived through many conflicts and resolutions of conflicts, he sees the game’s teachings as ranging from trivial to naive, and so he has much to contribute to it. The other playtester would be a frail idealist who has lived a life in pursuit of a rigid, tragically unattainable conception of justice, begging a cruel paradox that I don’t yet know how to untie for them, to whom the game would have much to give. It’s my belief that if these two people played a game of OW v0.1, then OW 1.0 would immediately manifest and ship itself.