On 12/2/10 10:35 AM, Trevor Parscal wrote:
+1
Cheap hallway testing is so incredibly useful that I dedicated my time in Berlin last year to giving a crash course in it. I am not sure it was effective in inspiring or educating people on how to do this, but everyone is welcome to revisit the slides here:
http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/index.php?title=File:Trevor_Parscal_-_Wikimedi...
Heh, I attended that talk but completely forgot about it. ;)
I was playing Portal again for kicks and looking at the developer commentary tracks. Portal spends a lot of time training users in a radically new gameplay concept. It's fascinating to hear all the tricks they used to get the player to learn things, as they played the game, almost without effort.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1kvadcJwmE