A little while ago I started a discussion, over on story games, about ashcans and what people felt they had got from them. One of the things that came out of that discussion was a desire on my part to help designers find people to playtest their games, and help groups willing to playtest find games. To that end I have setup a playesting site here:
The site has several uses:
1) To help groups who are interested in playtesting find games they want to play
2) To help designers find groups willing to playtest their games
3) To provide advice on the playtesting process
4) To provide a friendly environment to discuss the games you've tested with the designers and to post actual play reports
There is a post at the top of the discussions page which any users should read. It lays out exactly what the site is about.
I hope to foster a certain amount of mutualism on the site: I playtest your game, you playtest mine.
I have never run this kind of thing before so I would ask some understanding in the initial months of the site as I find my feet. Any comments and feedback would be greatly appreciated.
I hope the site can help you all out with your game design.
All the best
Iain
Great, applying for an
Submitted by David Donachie on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 18:56.
Great, applying for an account now! :)
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Directed
Submitted by Neil Gow on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 21:59.
The site has been linked off my blog for a while now - hey, every little helps.
I've literally just sent out the next load of playtest packs for D&H and I have asked the playtesters to direct their feedback through playtesting.co.uk rather than direct to me. I figured it would help to have some process occuring when people hit it fresh.
Naturally I'll flag on here when something of import comes up!!
Well done Iain
Neil
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Good show, Iain. I hope this
Submitted by Malcolm Craig on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 23:10.
Good show, Iain. I hope this is a great success.
I've posted Hot War up there and will fire up other stuff when I have it in a playtestable format.
Cheers
Malc
Contested Ground Studios
Thanks
Submitted by Iain McAllister on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 23:45.
Thanks Neil and Malcolm that will certainly help.
The next step is to ensure I start seeing feedback on the site. I am going to help as much as I can and I hope you guys can as well.
Thanks for the support and I hope this can change some attitudes.
Cheers
Iain
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Too Many Characters
Submitted by Neil Gow on Sat, 12/01/2008 - 14:26.
Hi Iain
I tried to post my Hot War AP on the board but it was 12000 characters too long! Even cutting it up, my post would have been in about three or four chunks. I have definitely seem longer posts on SG - any chance of fiddling the permissions to allow longer posts?
Neil
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