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Crafting outstanding game experiences through user testing
- 1. CRAFTING OUTSTANDING GAME EXPERIENCES THROUGH USER TESTING Rene Rebane & Marko Nemberg 2013
- 2. 2013 Who are we? Rene Rebane • UX Architect • Graphic designer • Test moderator • Gamer Marko Nemberg • Marketer • Technology geek • Test moderator • Biometrics and neurogaming evangelist
- 3. 2013 Our experience Interaction design Accessibility User testing User research Prototyping System analysis Design thinking Start-ups Marketing Visual design
- 5. 2013 Today’s topics • What is playtesting? • Why to test? • Good time for testing • How to test? • What’s next?
- 7. 2013 Game design is just hypothetical until it’s actually been played by your target audience; only then will you know if your idea works. – Sid Meier, creator of Civilization seriesSource: http://www.edge-online.com/features/are-gamers-tiring-same-old-thing/
- 8. 2013 Goal is a fun game Design is hypothesis Playtest is experiment Evaluate results
- 9. 2013
- 11. 2013 Why test?
- 12. 2013 Why test? • To make informed decisions • Find out usability problems • Players know what is best • Understand how players think • Reduce risks and unwanted surprises
- 13. 2013 Competing with any other content out there
- 14. 2013 Common misconceptions • Playtests are not important • The players don’t know what they want • Bug testing is enough • Players will probably just ignore the problems • It is ok to have some usability and accessibility issues, players won’t notice anyway
- 16. 2013 Colour blindness • 285 million people are visually impaired worldwide • 39 million are blind and 246 have low vision • Up to 10% of men in the world are color blind • 1% of women • In some regions this percentage is even higher Source: 2012 WHO statistics
- 18. 2013 Hearing loss • 360 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss • Players lose out on video games if information about impending danger is coming only through sound effects or music • Never give players information using just one sense – audio or visual
- 20. 2013 Reduced cognitive and motor functions • Over a billion people, about 15% of the world’s population, have some form of disability • Between 110 million and 190 million adults have significant difficulties in functioning • How can we include players who have limited cognitive or motor functions?
- 22. 2013 Good time for testing
- 23. 2013 Beginning of the project End of the project Possibility of changes
- 24. 2013 Beginning of the project End of the project Cost of changes
- 25. 2013 Start playtesting as soon as possible!
- 26. 2013 Where to find people?
- 27. 2013 Where to find people? • Coffee shops • Shopping centres • Schools • Elders’ centres • Online application
- 28. 2013 How many tests to conduct?
- 29. 2013 0 How many tests to conduct? 3 6 9 12 15 0% 50% 100% 75% 25%
- 30. 2013 One test with eight users First test with eight users Found five problems
- 31. 2013 Two tests with three users First test with three users Second test with three users Found nine problems
- 34. 2013 How to analyze? • Write down what happened • Why it is unexpected • Why it is bad (longer process, wrong element usage) • Remember it is not statistics
- 35. 2013 Next steps • What to keep • What to change • What to test more • What to measure later
- 36. 2013 What next?
- 38. 2013 Biometric test methods • Biometric game controllers (PS4, Xbox One, Eye Tribe) • Galvanic skin response sensors • Eye tracking • Electroencephalography (dry EEG)
- 40. 2013 Q & A
- 41. Thank you www.trinidad.ee Rene Rebane & Marko Nemberg 2013