{"product_id":"playtesting-best-practices-chris-backe-9781032813486","title":"Playtesting Best Practices","description":"Playtesting Best Practices: Real World and Online covers the complete journey of playtesting - the iterative journey to shape and refine tabletop games from raw ideas to balanced and fun games. This step-by-step guide embraces the process and celebrates the purpose of every step, from early self-playtesting to late-stage unguided playtesting, and offers the specific questions and practices the author has refined to perfect his own games.\nThis book is split up into four main sections, each with a distinct focus:\nGetting ready to playtest: establishing goalposts, brainstorming, self-playtesting, getting organized, how to design a prototype, and writing rules. The focus here is starting good habits and establishing best practices, whether this is your first game or your hundredth.\nPlaytesting in the real world: how to find playtesters, how to teach your game, what to do during the playtest, how to take notes and collect feedback, and being a great playtester yourself\nPlaytesting online: how to adapt to digital platforms, the best practices to playtesting online, how to use these opportunities well, and cautions about playtesting online.\nWhat to do next: how to iterate, additional ways to playtest your game, knowing when you're done with playtesting, and choosing how to get your game out there.","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51032243732768,"sku":"9781032813486","price":54.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781032813486.jpg?v=1781112130","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/playtesting-best-practices-chris-backe-9781032813486","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}