Week 11 Workshop: Paired playtest

A structured, silent playtest exercise in pairs, separating what you observed from what you concluded about it.

5 May 2027

Preparation#

Complete the week 11 lecture task before this session.

Activity#

1. In pairs, take turns being the player and the observer. The player gets no explanation beyond “here are the controls.” The observer stays silent and takes notes for the full attempt.
2. Compare the observer’s three observations against the player’s own account of what they were trying to do — note any observation the player disagrees with, or anything the player noticed that the observer missed.
3. Swap roles and repeat with a different preset.

Output#

Both rounds’ observation sets, interpretation sentences, and the player’s one-thing-they-didn’t-understand note from the spec above.

Criteria#

Not marked. Your tutor will check that observations and interpretations stayed separated — a mixed note (“they enjoyed the floaty jump”) is exactly the failure mode this week is rehearsing against, ahead of the mandatory play-test in the final assessment.