Esty8Nine's Game Doctor service
Added 2023-11-02 05:34:13 +0000 UTCThere's a streamer that I've followed for a while, who plays a ton of indie games every year and has been review/playing them on his streams. He recently started a service called the Game Doctor, where he consults for an in-development game so that he can get it on the right track and point out any blind spots. Even when he played One Step From Eden there were QoL features he was pointing out that I ended up adding to the game, such as being able to open the map during reward selection.
I watched some streamers play during the playtests and there were clearly things that new players were struggling with. A lot of changes have been made since then to help new players, but I know there are still a few things I'm missing. Esty is going to spend about an hour and a half playing the game and recording a session with his thoughts. Then we'll have a follow-up meeting to discuss potential fixes and changes to the game. A lot of developers have said great things about the service, and I personally think it's a huge hole in most developers projects. Since even watching him play and talk about a game on stream is valuable I'm pretty excited to see what comes from this. It's a bit odd to say but he may be the most experienced indie gamer out there.
I'll follow up with a post of what he contributed and how the overall experience was like!
