Chris Hecker's new espionage game about subtle behavior, performance, perception, and deception.
Archive for the ‘playtests’ Category.
GDC fast approaches, and I’m trying to make sure all the new stuff I’ve added actually works as designed for people coming to play in the IGF Pavilion, and that means playtest → tune → playtest → tune… Last night the gang came over, ostensibly to playtest the entirety of the aforementioned stuff, but the […]
Tonight we did the first playtest of the new Seduce Target mission and the new maps I’ve been working on for the GDC build. I also realized I never wrote up the results of the Action Test playtest session, so I’ll stick those in here as well. The Action Test Mechanic I playtested the Action […]
The fellow on the right looks like a pretty nice guy, no? Well, take my advice: don’t go to a party where he is lurking outside. Meet Paul and Ian, my elite SpyParty playtesters. Both have played around 10 hours of SpyParty across multiple sessions. They’ve played the game more than anybody else, including me […]
One of the new things I’m doing for the GDC build is adding two additional maps. Up until now, everybody who’s played SpyParty has played in the Ballroom, a box with 12 or so characters in it and windows on two sides. The Ballroom is carefully tuned to be fair for both Sniper and Spy […]
You may have heard SpyParty was nominated for the Seumas McNally 1 Grand Prize at the 2011 Independent Games Festival. This is really exciting, even though I probably have no chance of winning! Still, I celebrated in the best way possible: I worked on the game. The feature I’m working on right now I call […]
