Playtest, the Glossary
A playtest is the process by which a game designer tests a new game for bugs and design flaws before releasing it to market.[1]
Table of Contents
52 relations: Acceptance testing, Arena football, Arena Football League, Atari, Inc., Board game, Chicago Politicians, Collectible card game, Command & Conquer, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Copyright, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Digital rights management, Dota 2, Dungeons & Dragons, Fantasy Flight Games, Game mechanics, Gameplay, GitHub, Infocom, Invention, Jim Foster (American football), Lag (video games), Lockstep protocol, Minecraft, Mojang Studios, Munchkin (card game), NBC, Non-disclosure agreement, Open-source video game, Paizo, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Playtest, Puzzle hunt, Quality assurance, Quality control, Rockford Metros, Rockford, Illinois, Role-playing game, Scrye, Software testing, Star Wars Roleplaying Game (Fantasy Flight Games), StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Steve Jackson Games, Steve Meretzky, Team Fortress 2, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Usability testing, User research, Valve Corporation, ... Expand index (2 more) »
- Board game terminology
Acceptance testing
In engineering and its various subdisciplines, acceptance testing is a test conducted to determine if the requirements of a specification or contract are met. Playtest and acceptance testing are software testing.
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Arena football is a variety of gridiron football designed to be played indoors.
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The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional arena football league in the United States.
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Atari, Inc.
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.
Board game
Board games are tabletop games that typically use.
Chicago Politicians
The Chicago Politicians were a team formed in 1986 by Arena Football League founder Jim Foster to play an initial "test game" in Rockford, Illinois, at the MetroCentre.
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Collectible card game
A collectible card game (CCG), also called a trading card game (TCG) among other names, is a type of card game that mixes strategic deck building elements with features of trading cards.
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Command & Conquer
Command & Conquer (C&C) is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game franchise, first developed by Westwood Studios.
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Command & Conquer: Red Alert is a real-time strategy video game in the ''Command & Conquer'' franchise, developed and published by Westwood Studios in 1996.
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Copyright
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) is a 2012 multiplayer tactical first-person shooter developed by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment.
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Digital rights management
Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content.
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Dota 2
Dota 2 is a 2013 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game by Valve.
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.
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Fantasy Flight Games
Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) is a game developer based in Roseville, Minnesota, United States, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, card, and dice games.
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Game mechanics
In tabletop games and video games, game mechanics are the rules or ludemes that govern and guide the player's actions, as well as the game's response to them.
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Gameplay
Gameplay is the specific way in which players interact with a game, and in particular with video games.
GitHub
GitHub is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.
Infocom
Infocom was an American software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that produced numerous works of interactive fiction.
Invention
An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea or process.
James Foster is the inventor of the game of Arena Football, (and US patent recipient), the founder and first commissioner of the Arena Football League (AFL).
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Lag (video games)
In computers, lag is delay (latency) between the action of the user (input) and the reaction of the server supporting the task, which has to be sent back to the client.
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Lockstep protocol
The lockstep protocol is a partial solution to the look-ahead cheating problem in peer-to-peer architecture multiplayer games, in which a cheating client delays their own actions to await the messages of other players.
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Minecraft
Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox game developed and published by Mojang Studios.
Mojang Studios
Mojang Studios is a Swedish video game developer based in Stockholm.
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Munchkin (card game)
Munchkin is a dedicated deck card game by Steve Jackson Games, written by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Kovalic.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
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Non-disclosure agreement
A non-disclosure agreement (NDA), also known as a confidentiality agreement (CA), confidential disclosure agreement (CDA), proprietary information agreement (PIA), or secrecy agreement (SA), is a legal contract or part of a contract between at least two parties that outlines confidential material, knowledge, or information that the parties wish to share with one another for certain purposes, but wish to restrict access to.
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Open-source video game
An open-source video game, or simply an open-source game, is a video game whose source code is open-source.
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Paizo
Paizo Inc. (originally Paizo Publishing) is an American role-playing game publishing company based in Redmond, Washington, best known for the tabletop role-playing games Pathfinder and Starfinder.
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) that was published in 2009 by Paizo Publishing.
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Playtest
A playtest is the process by which a game designer tests a new game for bugs and design flaws before releasing it to market. Playtest and playtest are board game terminology, role-playing game terminology and software testing.
Puzzle hunt
A puzzle hunt (sometimes рuzzlehunt) is an event where teams compete to solve a series of puzzles, many of which are tied together via metapuzzles.
Quality assurance
Quality assurance (QA) is the term used in both manufacturing and service industries to describe the systematic efforts taken to assure that the product(s) delivered to customer(s) meet with the contractual and other agreed upon performance, design, reliability, and maintainability expectations of that customer.
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Quality control
Quality control (QC) is a process by which entities review the quality of all factors involved in production.
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Rockford Metros
The Rockford Metros were an Arena football team formed by Arena Football League founder Jim Foster for the purposes of playing a "test game" in Rockford, Illinois in the spring of 1986 at the MetroCentre.
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Rockford, Illinois
Rockford is a city in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States.
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Role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.
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Scrye
SCRYE (Scrye Collectible Card Game Checklist and Price Guide) was a gaming magazine published from 1994 to April 2009 by Scrye, Inc.
Software testing
Software testing is the act of checking whether software satisfies expectations.
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Star Wars Roleplaying Game (Fantasy Flight Games)
The Star Wars Roleplaying Game is a tabletop role-playing game set in the Star Wars universe, first published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2012.
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StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm is an expansion pack to the military science fiction real-time strategy game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, and the second part of the StarCraft II trilogy developed by Blizzard Entertainment, with the final part being Legacy of the Void.
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Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and (until 2019) the gaming magazine Pyramid.
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Steve Meretzky
Steven Eric Meretzky (born May 1, 1957) Infocom.
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Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 (TF2) is a 2007 multiplayer first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve Corporation.
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The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Usability testing
Usability testing is a technique used in user-centered interaction design to evaluate a product by testing it on users. Playtest and Usability testing are software testing.
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User research
User research focuses on understanding user behaviors, needs and motivations through interviews, surveys, usability evaluations and other forms of feedback methodologies.
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Valve Corporation
Valve Corporation, also known as Valve Software, is an American video game developer, publisher, and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.
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Video game
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.
Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast LLC (WotC or Wizards) is an American publisher of games, most of which are based on fantasy and science-fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail game stores.
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See also
Board game terminology
- Area movement
- Counter (board wargames)
- Fog of war
- Game board
- Glossary of board games
- Hex map
- Meeple
- Misère
- Perfect information
- Pie rule
- Playtest
- Rondel (gaming)
- Turn-based strategy
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playtest
Also known as Play test, Play-test, Play-testing, Player testing, Playtester, Playtesters, Playtesting, Playtests.