GeriC : Plugged: October 2007

Antlion

refreshing new look on a commonly used strategic gameplay
co-discovery is not useful for strategic games - unless the play is tag-team
as an educational game, it has achieved its goal since not many people know of antlion. I've never even heard of antlion before this
good job narrowing the topic, good choice of problem space to make it manageable

Fins of Fury

What is Fins of Fury about? It wasn't mentioned in the presentation slides...
established good motivation in game
lacking a reason for the game, what is the purpose behind it?
4 level board game testing is a really interesting idea
all playtesting users are moderate gamers - it would've been nice to see the game play tested on a more variety of different gamers such as beginners

Mizu

paper prototype has its limitations - some game concepts are hard to test such as actions... my team can attest to that
the team is right to point out that computer/player interaction can't be simulated

Untitled

list of what to test for - good objectives laid out there, and also the team will be able to go back and compare what the results are and what they had hoped to achieve
balance of character types - a great thing to take into consideration, and gives more depth to the game during playtesting sessions
good choice of users by varying the different level of experience
the photo posted of the game board is a little hard to see and could've used a bit of photo editing

Sunday, October 28, 2007