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Playtesting at Gearbox next week.
Menelaus \| 4:46 PM on 12.08.2008	8 comments

Just got an email inviting me to make the short drive to Plano to join a Gearbox Software playtesting session next week. Of course the sessions are in the middle of the week, in the middle of the day. No problem, I sent in my notice to my boss that I'd be taking a half day the moment I saw the email.

God, I hope we get to play Borderlands. Even if it's something totally crappy, just spending the afternoon at a game development house will be awesome.

Have any of you gotten the chance to do this before with a dev house?

OH PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE

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7 comments | showing # 1 to 7

BlindsideDork

Yes, you do get to play Borderlands.

I was talking to them about it and they decided I can't do it cause I "work" for Dtoid. But they did say how the majority of the public testings will be for Borderlands...probably cause they realize majority of people would want to play Aliens.

SnakeDude4Life

Fuck Borderlands, I hope you play Aliens.

Good luck buddy.

Technophile

focus group testing for the win. It's good times. I've been one of the guys on the other side of the glass on a few of these and it helps marketing and development quite a bit, provided the group gives well thought out feedback.

RonBurgandy2010

I hate you so much right now.

AngelsDontBurn

If you played Aliens I would want to know EVERYTHING I CAN KNOW! But I understand, cause they're definitely going to tell you to not say anything about ANYTHING. :(

Y0j1mb0

Gearbox is making Borderlands ? COOL! Maybe when it comes out they'll drop the price of the game to 19.99 in a month's time like they did their latest Brothers in Arms.

sTo0z

I playtested for the now dead Stainless Steel Studios when they were working on Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War, before Midway destroyed them, took their shitty old build and released a terrible version of the game.

It was awesome. They had a dev stand behind you while you played and took note of all your reactions, when you made them and why.

Enjoy the playtest man. :)

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