Braamfontein Student Game Developer Meet-Up - 15 November 2016
Hello all!
Firstly, apologies for the late organisation and notice for this one. We students have exams after all. With that in mind, this meetup will take a slightly different form, because we realise many of you will struggle to make it. Our talks will focus on tips for finishing up your games, but primarily we're going to provide space and time and people to do some final playtesting before any game assignment deadlines at the end of this semester.
While these meets are aimed at including the Johannesburg student developer community, the greater dev community are certainly not excluded. All are welcome!
When: 17:30 - 21:00
Where: The DIZ, 111 Smit Str, Braamfontein. 2nd Floor
Agenda:
17:30 - Hang out, grab some snacks, meet new people.
18:00 - Presentations begin
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+ Intros
+ Community News
+ Juice It or Lose It! - arguably one of the most important demos to help you improve your game
+ Playtesting - How to Get Good Feedback on Your Game - a screening
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+ Playtesting
+ Playtesting
+ Playtesting
+ Playtesting
+ Playtesting
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We cannot stress enough the importance of playtesting your game as part of the development process, so please bring games, prototypes, or just things for other people to test and give you feedback on. Also, it doesn't hurt to come prepared with a few questionnaires for people to fill out after testing your game. It's best to have questions specific to your games but here are a few example sheets which you can download and print out if you don't have time to make your own.
Try either of these, or this or this.
Also, please everyone be aware that this will be our last meetup for the year. If you are interested, please give us an idea of how many of you to expect by commenting below or on the Facebook Event.
See you all on Tuesday!
UPDATE: We're gonna do our best to organise computers for anyone to test their games on if you don't have laptops, so please bring them even if you don't have a machine with you. Also if you have board games to test, we want to play them and we have plenty of table space so please bring them along as well. See you all tomorrow!
Firstly, apologies for the late organisation and notice for this one. We students have exams after all. With that in mind, this meetup will take a slightly different form, because we realise many of you will struggle to make it. Our talks will focus on tips for finishing up your games, but primarily we're going to provide space and time and people to do some final playtesting before any game assignment deadlines at the end of this semester.
While these meets are aimed at including the Johannesburg student developer community, the greater dev community are certainly not excluded. All are welcome!
When: 17:30 - 21:00
Where: The DIZ, 111 Smit Str, Braamfontein. 2nd Floor
Agenda:
17:30 - Hang out, grab some snacks, meet new people.
18:00 - Presentations begin
=================================================
+ Intros
+ Community News
+ Juice It or Lose It! - arguably one of the most important demos to help you improve your game
+ Playtesting - How to Get Good Feedback on Your Game - a screening
=========
+ Playtesting
+ Playtesting
+ Playtesting
+ Playtesting
+ Playtesting
=================================================
We cannot stress enough the importance of playtesting your game as part of the development process, so please bring games, prototypes, or just things for other people to test and give you feedback on. Also, it doesn't hurt to come prepared with a few questionnaires for people to fill out after testing your game. It's best to have questions specific to your games but here are a few example sheets which you can download and print out if you don't have time to make your own.
Try either of these, or this or this.
Also, please everyone be aware that this will be our last meetup for the year. If you are interested, please give us an idea of how many of you to expect by commenting below or on the Facebook Event.
See you all on Tuesday!
UPDATE: We're gonna do our best to organise computers for anyone to test their games on if you don't have laptops, so please bring them even if you don't have a machine with you. Also if you have board games to test, we want to play them and we have plenty of table space so please bring them along as well. See you all tomorrow!
Comments
Also will it be the juice it or lose it video or will it be a live demo following the same principles?
I assume it will be the same place as last time. Which is The DIZ, 111 Smit Str, Braamfontein. 2nd Floor
Hope to see you there