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The Power of Playtesting in the Classroom

9 pointsby LandenLovelast Tuesday at 4:16 AM5 commentsview on HN

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vunderbalast Tuesday at 4:48 AM

Former ESL teacher with a background in computer science, who bounced around a few countries and has also created ESL apps to help students with their English skills. It's a great feeling to be able to combine those two areas to help your students.

That being said, you hold (whether you realize it or not) a rather elevated position above the people from whom you might be trying to solicit objective feedback. Nothing inherently wrong with that, as long as you're aware that it’s in their best interest to heap praise on the game considering you hold their grades in your hands.

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rcovesonyesterday at 9:35 PM

> You see a crow fly into the tongue of a headcrab and die. You now know everything you need to know about this enemy.

But not everything you don't need to know, like it's name. That's a barnacle. But I still love the point your making here. :)

ramesh31yesterday at 10:42 PM

Now hook it up to Claude Code in voice mode and let them add new features and change things in real time