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39%
39% -- share of respondents disclosing playtest dollar amount for game development teams (2023)
39% of respondents in the 2023 Playtest Survey chose to reply to the playtest cost question with a specific dollar amount.
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39%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2023
Entity
Sample Size
200
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Games User Research (Steve Bromley and Jackson Herd)
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Tier B
https://gamesuserresearch.com/the-2023-playtest-survey/ ↗
Source Article
The 2023 Playtest Survey | Games User Research
The 2023 Playtest Survey
Understand the playtesting habits of the games industry.
In an industry first, we have called upon hundreds of game developers to share their thoughts, opinions and behaviour with playtesting.
Read on to learn how the games industry tackles playtesting, and learn how to impr…
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Games User Research (Steve Bromley and Jackson Herd)
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Methodology
Survey of over two hundred game studios; budget question was optional
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game development teams: 39% share of respondents disclosing playtest dollar amount. Source: Games User Research (Steve Bromley and Jackson Herd) (2023). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/playtest-budget-disclosure-rate-2023
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