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About Playtest Thoughts

Playtest Thoughts is an independent publication about the craft of making games.

Not the launches. Not the discourse. The actual work the design decisions, the creative dead ends, the things you only learn by doing it.

We believe the most interesting thinking in games comes from the people inside it; designers, artists, audio engineers, producers, writers, and everyone else who ships things for a living. Playtest Thoughts is a place for those people to think out loud.

If you work in games and you have something worth saying, we'd love to hear from you. There's no house style, no agenda, and no minimum word count. Just honest takes from people who know what they're talking about.

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