{"id":2973,"date":"2025-04-01T22:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T22:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2025-04-01T22:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T22:02:13","slug":"week-9-kinetic-panic-playtest-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/2025\/04\/01\/week-9-kinetic-panic-playtest-feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 9 &#8211; Kinetic Panic Playtest &amp; feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday was our 2nd playtest! The KP! team and I added some features like music, a skybox and a better map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">First Playtester<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The game doesn&#8217;t seem intuitive to the player\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lots of direction is needed for them to get to places<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Camera shifting bug<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make the gap above the truck either more prominent or close it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Second Playtester<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The camera needs work<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Players are confused about how long the gravity takes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The game has a good core mechanic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Third Playtester<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A room with a bunch of random things to test the gravity and abilities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A car moving diagonally<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Likes the aesthetics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Movement is quite satisfying, camera a bit weird<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Would like to move the camera upwards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Fourth Playtester<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Camera janky<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The game is fun, movement is okay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Adi &#8211; Fifth Playtester<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The concept is nice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Never seen it before<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Especially if you haven&#8217;t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Rosie &#8211; Sixth Playtester<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Like the art style<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gameplay is fu,n but she didn&#8217;t really like how you have to manually slide the gravity thing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Seventh Playtester<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Confused about the controls<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A little tutorial would help a lot<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Extra stuff like putting the football in the goal and trying to fire myself into the basketball hoop<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Like the level, once you understand it, it&#8217;s easy to play<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The little character is cute<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Anna &#8211; Eighth Playtester<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Don&#8217;t like the way playing Eta feels<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The camera is the worse part, the fact that can&#8217;t look up sucks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jumping feels weird, Eta feels heavy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eta is hollow on the inside<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Level design is confusing, I didn&#8217;t know what was happening<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The way to activate abilities wasn&#8217;t intuitive<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Better if you activate the ability through a crosshair\/arrow, the object would have an outline around it to show its affected area<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Skyline is really nice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Buildings at the bottom of the map are unnecessary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-very-light-gray-to-cyan-bluish-gray-gradient-background has-background\">What I learned from this Playtest<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Camera movement needs to be fixed, it&#8217;s the main concern for everyone<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fix Eta&#8217;s hollowness by extruding the inside<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>People love the concept and the environment, and the character<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>People need a tutorial or guidance to be able to navigate the level<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The level design needs to be refined as the players kept getting frustrated by falling off from the platforms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday was our 2nd playtest! The KP! team and I added some features like music, a skybox and a better map. First Playtester Second Playtester Third Playtester Fourth Playtester Adi &#8211; Fifth Playtester Rosie &#8211; Sixth Playtester Seventh Playtester Anna &#8211; Eighth Playtester What I learned from this Playtest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-dev-semester-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2981,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions\/2981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}