Ask unbiased questions. Practice and develop your playtest moderation and run excellent qualitative research.

Excellent reporting requires excellent storytelling and clear communication – learn how to write a games user research report

Learn how to write reliable playtest surveys, and discover games UX issues.

Learn secrets from experts about how to write effective and useful playtest surveys.

Some of the fears that our colleagues might have about games UX and user research, and what we can do to convince teams to playtest more.

Games are meant to be fun. We’ll look at why measuring fun is hard, and how to find the fun reliably.

Communication is one of the most important skills for a researcher to have – here is the lowdown on sharing games user research findings.

Remote games user research is an essential part of our toolbox. In this issue we explore how to do it, and some of the problems to look out for.

Essential quantitative research skills for games user researchers, including how to compare two data-sets, and common stats errors.

Games user researchers don’t just run studies, and there are other activities which can increase the impact of our work. Learn what user researchers do when they are not running studies.

It can be hard to be a new user researcher, particularly in organisations which haven’t had much experience of running structured playtests.

Read some tips for new games user researchers that should help avoid some common mistakes!

Sharing research findings from playtests and games UX tests is essential to making sure your studies have an impact, and the findings are not ignored.