Identify the intended audience for your game:
Anyone that understands the rules
Conduct interview #1 with a potential user PRIOR to development
- What are some games you have played recently? A: Clue, Connect 4, and Scrabble
- What are some games you might enjoy playing on MATLAB? A: Hangman and Go Fish
- In your opinion what is the optimal length a game should take to play? A: 10 minutes
- What aspects of a game make it enjoyable to you to play? A: interesting, competition, and challenging
Conduct interview #2 with a user after beta testing (must be different person than #1)
- What are some games you have played recently? Poker and Euchre
- What are some games you might enjoy playing on MATLAB? Euchre and Connect 4
- In your opinion what is the optimal length a game should take to play? 7 minutes
- What aspects of a game make it enjoyable to you to play? The people I play with and just an overall enjoyable game
- When playing this game, which aspects did you enjoy? Engages the user and makes one think
- When playing this game, what changes would you recommend? A better figure/script display