I Don't Know If This Game Is Good

After years of making games, I still can’t reliably tell if one is “good” while we’re building it.

Intuition, playtests, retention and wishlists all help - but each can mislead you in different ways.

In this talk, I’ll show how we deal with that uncertainty at Bippinbits, using examples from both our successful games and the ones we chose to cancel.