Poki at GDC 2024: Introducing Poki Playtesting

Poki for Developers
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3 min readMar 13, 2024

It’s that time of year again…GDC! Poki is headed back to the City by the Bay and this time we’re bringing an even bigger presence to show off the power of web. We’re bringing along 13 web developer teams to help us man our first ever booth on the expo floor. Be sure to swing by Booth S657 because we’ve gotten something big up our sleeves:

New: Poki Playtesting!

Do you struggle with testing your game early and often? Do you wish you could get instant feedback from real players? Now you can with Poki Playtesting — our easy to use, free tool that allows you to see your game through the eyes of users and leverage those insights to refine and improve your game.

“Playtests are helping us a lot to perfect our products. For indie studios like ourselves, it’s hard to build our own infrastructure but tools like Poki’s playtest opened a new window to our development and allowed us to better understand player behavior.” — Cem Demir, OnRush Studio.

Read more about Cem’s experience using playtests in his blog post, “Creating higher success rates for web games using playtests!”.

We’re offering exclusive, early access to Poki Playtesting at GDC 2024, with plans to open up to everyone at a later date. Interested in checking it out at GDC? It’s simple:

  • Swing by our booth, S657 — look for the rotating Poki sign ;)
  • Bring your laptop with a web build of your latest game or prototype
  • Set up a Poki for Developers account with the help of a Poki team member or developer
  • Enjoy some coffee, tea, and snacks while we show you the power of Poki Playtests

Once your game has been playtested on Poki, we’ll talk to you about the next steps for getting your game released to our 60 million players and beyond!

Gameplay recordings received by developers using the Poki Playtesting feature (Drive Mad)
Gameplay recordings received by developers using the Poki Playtesting feature (Level Devil)
Gameplay recordings received by developers using the Poki Playtesting feature

About Poki

Poki is on a mission to create the ultimate online playground — where players and developers come together to play, discover, connect and create. With a growing 350+ game developer community and 60 million players each month, we’re creating a new standard for web games.

Check out our Developer Page for more information!

#LongLiveTheWeb

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