Peter C. Hayward, founder of Jellybean Games, discusses how to be a great playtester.

Peter often gets paid by publishers to playtest games and probably playtests more games than anyone you know. He’s got great advice on what it looks like to be the most helpful playtester at the table.

Be sure to check out Peter’s new game on Kickstarter HERE.

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Daniel and Connie Kazmaier discuss how they put together a rather large online playtesting group for their game, Chai.

They have nearly 800 playtesters in their group and go into how they’ve nurtured and developed it.

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Mike Mihealsick, from Coalition Games, discusses all the lessons and insights he’s learned after facilitating hundreds of blind playtests. Blind playtesting is the purifying fire in which we truly get to find out what our games are made of, and Mike offers a ton of advice on how to navigate the process well.

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