You Need to Know who is Going to Play Your Game
summary
Metacore runs rapid text-only premise testing to predict which fantasies resonate, writing a few short premises per day, pushing them via PlaytestCloud surveys (or SurveyMonkey), and iterating 20–50 rounds until themes repeat. Visuals take weeks and remain unsolved; playable prototypes measure UX and enthusiasm via unpaid-overplay (players playing far longer than the paid session). This process roots out bad concepts early, increases confidence stepwise, and trades statistical certainty for practical, low-cost signal.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to Metacore
- 1:12The value of concept testing
- 3:08Early stage predictive methods
- 6:43Understanding player fantasy
- 10:40Text-based premise testing
- 13:49Prototype and enthusiasm
- 17:21Refining the testing process
- 19:42Q&A and concluding remarks
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