It is possible to use the Bring Your Own Players feature to playtest with people who work at your game studio, or even use it to record in-house research sessions.
This can be useful if:
You want to collect richer feedback from your colleagues and analyze it directly on PlaytestCloud
You want to record in-house research sessions and the process described below fits your workflow
Step-by-step instructions
1. 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:
You and your colleagues email addresses if you would like to invite them to a research project or participate in a playtest as a tester would.
The email addresses of your in-house playtesters
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 don't have dedicated emails of the players who are participating in your in-house research, you can often 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:
All of these emails will then get sent to the same account (abcplaytest@gmail.com), each containing an individual playtest link.
This works with Gmail and Google Workspace and select other email providers. Please reach out to your IT department if you need help with this step.
4. Set the limit of the amount of players that play to how many email addresses have been input.
5. Order and launch the playtest. Around 20 minutes after launching, our system will send a playtest invitation email to all email addresses containing the instructions on dowloading the game and the PlaytestCloud recording software.
6. Start the playtest! Once the minimum required time you've set up in your order has been recorded by your participants, our system will send the post-playtest survey. The video recordings will show up in your account 30-60 minutes after the end of the recording.