Why Are Valve's Games So Polished?

[Mess]

Gaming website ign.com managed to have a chat to Valve's resident psychologist Mike Amdinder at this year's GDC, who has revealed some very interesting information regarding the playtesting methods Valve employs.

Eyetracking, still another method, involves focusing a camera on the eyes, which provides real-time insight into what players are thinking, determine where the eyes are looking, as well as checking on the blink rate and pupil dilation.

Definitely worth your while reading the full article.

[FlynT]

Another great insight in Valve's progress of Game Developing, very interesting article!

Thanks Mess

[ofaas]

Wow this was really interesting to know about. I always wondered how they got their games to be so balanced.

[F0xHunter]

Intresting article, indeed...
Fun to see how much VALVe does to polish their games before release.

[zombie@computer]

With the time it takes them to create their games I expect no less...

[korge]

EA could learn a lot from these guys.

[Woe Kitten]

Everyone could. It's been great talking about this informally at work today!