Alpha Playtest

Clockwork Sword

This last week was spent making finishing touches to the game for our alpha playtest and rescoping the game after receiving feedback during the playtest.

In preparation for the playtest, I finished up the last of the new weapons and spent a bunch of time fixing tiny issues and helping the team assemble the game into a playable level. Here is a gameplay clip from the playable level:

After the playtest, it was clear that we needed to make major changes going forward. The biggest of these changes was that we decided to cut our game from 4 short levels into one medium-length level. Additionally, we decided to simplify the melee weapons and change almost all the gears.

In response to the playtests, I started by improving the workbench to make it more useable, since we had several people complain about it during the playtest. I then reworked all of the weapons to match their new specifications.