Playtesting: Avoiding Evil Data

In this GDC 2017 session, indie developer Adriaan de Jongh looks back at the evil data he gathered in 6 years of playtesting 8 games, sharing his ways to avoid useless or confusing data, and sharing how he now organizes effective playtests sessions with minimal effort. If you see playtesting as necessary evil, this talk is for you.
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[@ElDaumo]

great game, great speech. also a super nice guy. could listen to him for hours

[@leonarbitrarynonsense359]

Really underrated talk ! Lots of great info and tips in this

[@gamedesignwithmichael]

Love this talk. Bunch of really basic but fundamental tips for play testing and software UX testing. And the examples are well explained and detailed which is always awesome.

[@ThatGamePerson]

Unity heatmaps are amazing haha, so glad to see someone else using it.

[@twennys3388]

Saw MATN play this game a while back. Really informative talk, and the speaker was transparent & easy-going. Great talk!

[@drottningu]

Thank you, Adriaan!

[@blind_neighbourhoodNerd]

Excellent talk!!

[@puixel]

Great one! thx for all these information! :D

[@ThommyTheThird]

Interesting, good talk Adriaan!

[@AmericasComic]

I mean, technically, evil Data was named Lore.

[@ZoidbergForPresident]

Ahahah! Fantastic! :D

[@trucid2]

TIL I'm watching Evil Data Skyrim videos.

[@Weltenbruch]

great talk :D

[@ZoidbergForPresident]

23:10 Title of the video, ouch.

[@aFewBitsShort]

18:06 Add more stars to level 3. Problem solved.

[@jesusfigueroa5612]

I liked you talk. However, I don't like the name "Evil Data". Feedback data is data and is up to you to understand and interpret the feedback.

[@PleasestopcallingmeDoctorImath]

Anyone else think that the thumbnail resembles goatse

[@GralChufy]

I guess you made them notice because they just changed it

[@basteagui]

lmao

[@trucid2]

The data is not evil. You just don't understandbit.

[@jort93z]

already a dislike lol.