{"id":12480,"date":"2025-03-06T13:05:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=12480"},"modified":"2025-03-11T16:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T20:03:46","slug":"game-makers-play-test-notes-till-death-do-us-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=12480","title":{"rendered":"Game Maker&#8217;s Play Test Notes (Till Death Do Us Part)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What questions did your players have?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How are we supposed to know what order to examine the evidence? If the game maker is not present, how do we fact-check our guesses?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How quickly did they learn to play?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The players instantly dived into the game, even before I began to explain what the <em>how <\/em>and <em>why. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What kinds of interactions did the players have?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The players discussed, acted interviews out, and collaborated to decipher codes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What confused players?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any and all red herrings I threw into the game left the players slightly confused. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What made players excited?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Examining the small details to help solve the mystery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What did your players enjoy doing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acting out the police interviews. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Did any aspect of the game frustrate players?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quantity of documents frustrated a few players, while others enjoyed looking through them all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5706-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5706-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5706-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5706-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5706-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5706-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_5706-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What questions did your players have? How are we supposed to know what order to examine the evidence? If the game maker is not present, how do we fact-check our guesses? How quickly did they learn to play? The players instantly dived into the game, even before I began to explain what the how and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=12480\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Game Maker&#8217;s Play Test Notes (Till Death Do Us Part)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-12480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design-studio-2","tag-marked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12482,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12480\/revisions\/12482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}