Part of GameCity, Modern Playing is a new video-game culture night out.
There’s nights in Birmingham, Sleaford, Edinburgh and London but tonight it’s down in Cardiff. In the Chapter Arts place no less where Barry Island spent a few absinthe sozzled evenings in his youth.
We’re coming down to be a tiny part of it too, and we’re asking for people’s help! (Because that’s what gonzo developers are often inclined to do!)
When we were up in Dundee a few months ago, we found that on the whole, the difficulty of our Avoid Droid prototype was a little high for some people. Dying is inevitable, but from observing a large sample of people it looked like we needed to notch things down a little. Not *too* much, but definitely down to what we’d become accustomed to after months of closed off development.
So tonight, we’re coming with a super duper master plan…
LIVE TWEAKIES FIDDLING
So this time, Charlie has made a special build with a tweak-slider that lets us make things harder or easier dynamically in the field! INSTA-ADJUSTO-FEEDBACK-O-TRON 3000
So we can observe someone playing, get their feedback on the difficulty, make a little adjustment here and there… and get instant feedback on the tweaks. Should be really good – we’re really excited to try this system out in the wild like this. There really isn’t anything better than being able to watch people play your game and work out where changes need to be made to make people happiest.
So if you’re down at Modern Playing tonight at the Chapter, do come and say hi and give us a hand with getting the trickiness nailed! We’d really really appreciate it and any feedback at all.
Times and tickets etc here
