DieHard Wolfers

BrotherTank · Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:46 am Havoc

I've been privileged to be a Beta testor for both "Spear Resurrection" and "End of Destiny".... During the Beta phases I noticed different ways of reporting things found/not found and various information we noticed about the game. This included everything from spelling and grammar (thanks to Arielus) to our thoughts about each level and the strategies that we used to solve the various puzzles/traps set for players within the game.

Anyhow, I'm just wondering what people find usefull information when your beta testors are reporting back to you about your game.

Do you want them to be critical of static item placement?
Do you want them to be critical of enemy placement?
Do you want them to be critical of the atmosphere of each level?
Do you want them to be critical of the difficulty of each level?
Do you want them to report on everything?

During SR and EoD I used the following:

On each level I gave my thoughts as to the skill required to finish each as well as a perspective based on what I thought others might think of certain traps and tricks when they played the game. I also gave the following information at the end of each level finished:

Score, Treasure % found, Secret % Found, Enemy % Killed, Weapons on hand, Ammo for each weapon on hand, Health Level, Lives Remaining... like this (and for Chris - This the is the first post for the "Running Ratios" thread that you thought might be interesting):

BrotherTank Running Ratios Thread wrote:

Skill Level 3 - Hero...

Level

Time

Kill

Secret

Treasure

Score

Health

Men

Weapon-Ammo..

1

10:51

100%

83%

64100
2

22:03

100%

88%

84%

140700
27

--:--

-- %

252100

125

6

2,3 - 74 | 4 - 99 | 7 - 5
3

15:18

88%

78%

80%

338000

125

7

2,3 - 200 | 4 - 138 | 6 - 4 | 7 - 0
4

23:10

100%

66%

100%

402700

100

8

2,3 - 200 | 4 - 96 | 6 -12 | 7 - 0
5

17:02

87 %

50 %

33 %

442100

93

9

2,3 - 131 | 4 - 177 | 6 - 13 | 7 - 2
6

24:55

85 %

58 %

20 %

468800

73

9

2,3 - 153 | 4,5 - 200 | 6 - 30 | 7 - 8
07

--:--

-- %

515400

125

9

2,3 - 200 | 4,5 - 200 | 6- 34 | 7 - 11
8

26:08

94 %

66 %

50 %

562400

100

9

2,3 - 89 | 4,5 - 200 | 6 - 36 | 7 - 17
28

--:--

-- %

759000

100

9

2,3 - 200 | 4,5 - 25 | 6 - 36 | 7 - 18
35

--:--

-- %

996200

48

9

2,3 - 150 | 4,5 - 87 | 6 - 9 | 7 - 5
9

27:42

100%

58%

90%

1061100

100

9

2,3 - 146 | 4,5 - 133 | 6 - 18 | 7 - 4
10

23:11

91 %

42%

40%

1102300

100

9

2,3 - 192 | 4,5 - 21 | 6 - 36 | 7 - 20
11

17:06

81 %

46 %

2 %

1138700

124

9

2,3 - 151 | 4,5 - 87 | 6 - 32 | 7 - 20
12

--:--

-- %

1162700

100

9

2,3 - 200 | 4,5 - 64 | 6 - 36 | 7 - 20
13

27:20

100%

71%

100%

1241900

125

9

2,3 - 200 | 4,5 - 42 | 6 - 2 | 7 - 20
14

31:09

100%

75%

100%

1354000

100

9

2,3 - 158 | 4,5 - 200 | 6 - 6 | 7 -18
15

23:59

95%

50%

100%

1463400

96

9

2,3 - 51 | 4,5 - 159 | 6 - 6 | 7 - 20
16

18:25

67 %

55 %

2 %

1505200

99

9

2,3 - 28 | 4,5 - 77 | 6 - 27 | 7 - 20
17

24:23

100%

91%

100%

1608700

100

9

2,3 - 191 | 4,5 - 165 | 6 - 20 | 7 - 16
18

38:05

100%

72%

100%

1698100

100

9

2,3 - 200 | 4,5 - 177 | 6 - 18 | 7 - 20
19

29:41

100%

80%

85%

1785800

85

9

2,3 - 198 | 4,5 - 122 | 6 - 13 | 7 - 20
20

29:49

94 %

45%

100%

1846900

100

9

2,3 - 200 | 4,5 - 88 | 6 - 25 | 7 - 20
21

40:06

100%

85%

100%

2007900

141

9

2,3 - 200
38

--:--

- - %

2133100

125

9

2,3 - 124
22

--:--

- - %

2193100

125

9

2,3 - 200 | 4,5 - 198 | 7 - 1
23

21:01

86%

50%

13%

2233700

97

9

2,3 - 88 | 4,5 - 200 | 6 - 10 | 7 -1
24

32:04

99 %

85%

100%

2373300

100

8

2,3 - 113 | 4,5 - 132 | 6 - 8 | 7 - 5

Obviously, the first pass was just to make sure that the game could actually be completed, then we all went back and played for 100% ratios... Each person tried a different skill level (at least we did with SR).

Anyhow, It would be interesting to hear your thoughts about what information you look for from your beta testors when they are beta testing your games....

Greg
BrotherTank