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Tasks—One Player
Task One
In front of you is the game board for our tower defense game dedicated to usability testing. Study the game board
without putting anything down and comment on the following:
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Please give me your initial impression about the layout, what certain components are for, etc.
Please describe the options you see on the board and what you think they do.
If you were exploring, what would you do first?
What do you think the purpose of the board is?
Task Two
Explore the board.
I am going to give you some time to freely explore the game. You may put any tile at any location of the play board to see
what kind of feedback the system will give you.
Please wait for instructions before proceeding to task three.
Task Three
Start a new game.
You are asked to start a new game in the middle of the game. Determine how to restart and do so.
Task Four
Build a tower.
In this game, towers have to be placed on the board to eliminate invaders before they reach the other end of the path.
Using the board, determine an appropriate method to build, choose a tower and build it.
Task Five
Remove a tower.
Sometimes you may need to remove existing towers. Using the board, determine how to remove the existing towers on
the board and remove one, or all of them.
Task Six
Pausing the game.
You want to pause the game, figure out how to do so.
Please wait for instructions before proceeding to task seven.
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