--- title: Game Dev Secrets: How to Playtest! #indiegamedev #gamedev description: Playtesting insight: playtesters are good at identifying problems but tend to offer solutions instead of describing the underlying issue. Using a real example... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/game-dev-secrets-how-to-playtest-indiegamedev-gamedev-rwhtdi7di twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Game Dev Secrets: How to Playtest! #indiegamedev #gamedev | daily.dev og:description: Playtesting insight: playtesters are good at identifying problems but tend to offer solutions instead of describing the underlying issue. Using a real example... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/game-dev-secrets-how-to-playtest-indiegamedev-gamedev-rwhtdi7di og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rwHtDI7DI.png og:image:alt: Game Dev Secrets: How to Playtest! #indiegamedev #gamedev og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Game Dev Secrets: How to Playtest! #indiegamedev #gamedev **[YouTube](https://daily.dev/sources/youtube)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Playtesting insight: playtesters are good at identifying problems but tend to offer solutions instead of describing the underlying issue. Using a real example from the game Isadora's Edge, the author shows how feedback requesting an 'input buffer' on a pogo attack was actually masking a different problem — the attack windup made inputs feel ignored. The fix was shortening the windup and moving the hitbox to frame one, not just tweaking the input buffer. The key lesson is to dig into what problem a playtester is trying to solve, not just act on their suggested solution. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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