On Friday December 10th, PlaytestCloud's Elie Mourand will hold a conversation with the author of "How to be a Games User Researcher" Steve Bromley about some of the most common playtesting mistakes he has seen teams fall foul of. You won't want to miss it.
  • Is it ever too early to test?
  • What do I need to know about my game?
  • Defining research objectives
  • What can we learn from five users?
  • Finding the right kind of players
  • Do playtests need a user researcher to be valid?
  • Questions from the audience
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    Steve Bromley
    User Researcher
    Steve Bromley has been working with the games industry for over a decade, and led research studies for many of PlayStation's top European games including Horizon: Zero Dawn, SingStar and the PlayStation VR launch lineup. He continues to work with games studios to improve the player experience of their games.

    Steve started and ran the games user research mentoring scheme for five years, which partnered over one hundred students with more than fifty industry professionals from top companies such as Sony, EA, Valve, Ubisoft, and Microsoft, and helped many people get their first job in games.

    This year he released a book on how to start a career in games user research, called 'How To Be A Games User Researcher'. The book covers many of the topics that mentees have asked as they start their games user research career.
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    Elie Mouraud
    Sr. Project Manager
    Elie Mouraud is a senior project manager at PlaytestCloud where he helps studios make better games. He drives playtests for mobile games and keeps himself busy making sure projects run smoothly for both studios and players.

    Elie has been Improving and structuring player recruitment at PlaytestCloud for the past three years.

    With 6 years of experience in the mobile gaming industry in Berlin, he has developed an understanding of what players are really looking for when they turn on the little screen to play. He has been seen presenting at conferences such as Pretzels and Playtesting conference in 2019 and was featured in an episode of the Elite Game Developers podcast.

    During his spare time, he enjoys playing way too many hours of The Ascent, Far Cry 6 and Stardew Valley.