Forge, the leading platform for community-driven game marketing is announcing the launch of PLAYTESTER.GG, the first of its kind open community and marketplace for game developers and playtesters to matchmake based on their gaming credentials and collaborate to make the next hit Indie game.
Anyone in the gaming industry will tell you that as an indie developer you "should playtest early" and "you must playtest often".
But the truth is that good playtesting, the one that acts as early marketing as much as it does quality assurance does require effort, especially the sourcing of players so aligned and knowledgeable that they earn their place in the credits.
With the launch of PLAYTESTER.GG the time to find your insider playtesting crew goes
DOWN while your ability to define the kind of player you are looking goes UP.
LETS PLAYTEST EARLY
LETS PLAYTEST OFTEN
NOW WITH YOUR IDEAL PLAYERS
NOW AT PLAYTESTER.GG
Congratulations on the launch, interesting good playtesters are insanely hard to source, and most indie teams either settle for low-signal feedback or burn time building communities from scratch.
Curious how you’re thinking about quality control and incentives on both sides though:
What stops this from becoming Fiverr for playtesting (i.e. low-quality, rushed feedback)?
And how do you ensure developers actually get actionable insights vs surface-level reactions?
Feels like the long-term value here lives or dies on signal quality, interested in how you’re structuring for that? Also do you have sights on Beta testers for SaaS products?
Horacio Nunez