Bring Your Own Players
A Flexible Way to Playtest

Playtest with your own players, using PlaytestCloud’s proven recording & security

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Tailored for your custom playtesting setups

Bring Your Own Players (BYOP) enables you to use PlaytestCloud’s proven infrastructure and recording software for playtesting with your own players. Instead of relying on PlaytestCloud’s player panel, you can add anybody to your playtest via their email address, allowing more flexibility to meet your playtesting needs.

Test with veteran players

Invite highly-engaged players from your community to give feedback on new content or new games.

Company-internal feedback

Get feedback from stakeholders in your company easily, with quick installation, recording and no additional software.

On-site playtesting

Use PlaytestCloud to easily install builds on multiple devices in your own lab, and analyze player recordings with our professional video analysis tools.

How it works:

Set up a new playtest and upload your build
Enter the email addresses of the players you want to invite
Watch your players’ recordings online

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Use the PlaytestCloud infrastructure

Recording
PlaytestCloud seamlessly adds screen & microphone recording to your game. You don’t need to install any additional software.
Security
Use PlaytestCloud’s built-in security features to disable your game after your playtest – with only one click.
Video analysis toolkit
Analyze your recordings in PlaytestCloud’s professional video player, or export them for your archive.

Need an expert?

Our games user researchers can help you design and analyze your playtests.

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Extremely versatile

It’s easy to integrate PlaytestCloud into your existing user research process. If you have special research objectives, you can configure Bring Your Own Players (BYOP) playtests in various ways to make sure you get the most out of them:

Set up playtests exactly how you want
You can let players freely play your game. If you want to give more guidance, you can set up tasks, a fixed session structure or written surveys.

Support for Android and mobile browser games
Bring Your Own Players is available for testing Android and mobile browser games.