u/Beagol_BB092725

Hi r/playtesters!

The game: ShipHappens is a chaotic little browser party game. You and your friends secretly build the same character, then find out who "ends up" dating them. About 5 minutes a round, free, no install, plays right in the browser.

Why I'm posting: I just reworked the intro so the game actually explains itself now. Earlier testers found the opening confusing, so this is the thing I most want fresh eyes on.

Two things I'd love you to tell me:

1. Was the opening clear? Did you understand the goal before the game started?
2. Would you play it again?

Anything else that felt confusing or broken is super welcome too.

Play here: games.hivemanila.com/ShipHappens

How to send feedback: Feedback form (20 seconds): https://forms.gle/t9yN85xH7WT8zHKx6 or just comment below.

Happy to playtest yours back if you leave a link.

I'm trying to figure out if I'm uniquely bad at this or if it's just every parent lol. some mornings I swear I plan everything right and I'm STILL rushing out the door late. genuinely curious where everyone lands.

first, where you at:
A) kid under 6 you're getting ready too
B) older kids (school age or up)
C) honestly mostly just getting myself out

then, when you've gotta be somewhere on time, how often are you rushing?

1. I lose track of time
2. I know the time, I just can't move fast enough
3. the kids or other people slow me down
4. rarely late tbh

reply with your letter + number + what usually eats your time, like "A3, feeding everyone breakfast" 😅

I'll go first: B3, i take care of everythiiiing (husband helps but still not enough idgi)

I keep thinking I have way more time than I do and then I'm rushing out the door. curious where everyone lands on this

when you've got somewhere to be (work, a meeting, an appointment, or whatever), how often are you actually late or rushing?

1. I lose track of time and suddenly I'm behind
2. I know what time it is, I just can't move fast enough
3. it's other people slowing me down
4. honestly I'm rarely late

reply with your number + the thing that always eats your time, like "1, doomscrolling in bed"

I'll go first: 1 :( too maany things to do (ugh)

i have a real talent for being exactly 10 minutes late to everything. not an hour, nothing dramatic, just consistently, annoyingly 10. and it's never one big reason, it's that i think getting ready takes 10 minutes when it actually takes 25.

genuinely curious about the people who get this right: do you set a "start getting ready" moment, lay stuff out the night before, set your clock ahead, something else?

and for my fellow always-slightly-late crew, what's the small invisible thing that always eats your time without you noticing?

working from home fixed my commute and somehow made me worse at time. i'll be locked into something, tell myself i'll wrap up in five, and then i'm joining the next call flustered or heading out for an errand way later than i meant to.

the focus is great until it's a trap. last time i looked up it was 25 minutes past when i meant to stop.

for the folks who switch tasks or get out the door cleanly, how do you do it? an alarm to start wrapping up, or something else? and what's the thing that usually sucks you past your stop time?