It is possible to record in-house playtesting with our Bring Your Own Players feature. 

This can be useful if you run in-house playtests or if you would like to participate in your own playtest as a tester would. 

Here are the steps to do it:

1. Sign up for Bring Your Own Players in your PlaytestCloud account under Settings > Subscriptions (we run a 14-day free trial!). 

2. Set up a playtest using the playtest order form. 

3. Input the email addresses that you want the playtest invitation sent to. These can be:

A note on emails: Playtests are delivered via invitation email only and can be opened and installed from the link in the email. You can open and install multiple playtests on the same device. 

A tip for in-house playtest emails: If you use a service like Gmail, you can set up one central email account (e.g. abcplaytest@gmail.com) and use the '+' sign to create several variations of the same email address in order to not have to create individual accounts for each playtest. 

For example, if you wanted to test with 3 players, the emails you could input are: 

abcplaytest+tester1@gmail.com, abcplaytest+tester2@gmail.com, abcplaytest+tester3@gmail.com. 

All of these emails will then get sent to the same account (abcplaytest@gmail.com), each containing an individual playtest link. 

4. Set the limit of the amount of players that play to how many email addresses have been input. This feature is normally used to control the amount of players that play in an unmoderated playtest but for Live playtests, this number should match however many playtests you plan to conduct.

5. Order and launch the playtest. Around 20 minutes after launching, the emails will receive a playtest invitation. Here you will find a link where you can download the game which has now been wrapped in our PlaytestCloud recording software.

6. Start the playtest! The survey will be sent following the completion of the minimum required time and the playtest results will be sent to you via email.