IAT 410 Team Aquila: Playtesting

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IAT 410Team Aquila Playtesting

• Stephen Ramsay (sramsay_at_sfu.ca)?
• Eric Chen (ecc3_at_sfu.ca)?
• Mohamed El Eryan (meleryan_at_sfu.ca)?
• Phil Larson
• Gurp

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The Prototype

• Was entirely multiplayer focused
• Through an Internet connection two players would
  face each other
• Each player had 5 troops and 2 airplanes
• Each turn the units could move and shoot to a
  limited degree
• The player who kills the other player first wins
• Can be accessed here http//www.sfu.ca/sramsay/i
  at410/prototype/IAT410- Prototypev0.3.5.exe

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The Process

• We did our prototyping on Thursday October 11,
  2007
• We got 4 people to run our prototype (3 guys and
  a girl, all students)?
• We did two sessions with a one versus one in each

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Our Users

• We used two laptops connected through
• the Internet
• We recorded the users as they played and
• monitored them

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Screenshot Connecting
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Screenshot Combat
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Screenshot Victory
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What we learned through playtesting

• Bug where units could go on top of each other and
  merge very popular
• Overall prototype was a simple game but
  strategies were still developed and all the users
  reported that they enjoyed playing it

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What we learned through playtesting

• Users were confused over controls as no
  instructions were provided
• Users were also confused over stats and how much
  health/movement each unit had
• (systems need to be implemented to make a process
  of information delivery)?