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Guides on recruiting testers, writing questions players actually answer, and turning raw feedback into changes that make your game better. Written by an indie dev, for indie devs.

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How to playtest your indie game

How to playtest an indie game from scratch: what to prepare, how to run the session, and how to read the results without fooling yourself.

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How many playtesters do you need?

How many playtesters an indie game needs depends on the question you are asking. Here is how to size a round, and how playtesting differs from QA.

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How to playtest a Unity game

How to playtest a Unity game: WebGL builds, in-game events, FPS and crash capture, and mid-game surveys that ask players questions while they play.

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Playtest survey questions that get real answers

A copy-paste bank of playtest survey questions for indie games, plus the rules for writing questions that do not produce polite, useless answers.

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How to find playtesters for your indie game

Where to find playtesters for your indie game: Discord servers, Reddit, itch.io, jams and tester pools, plus how to ask so people actually show up.

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