Once we had created 2 levels of our game, we had a working prototype that was ready to be play tested. We conducted in-person playtests in which we would have the user play the game from the beginning while the team observed and took notes. 

Besides all the bugs, there were two major points that we learned from play testing.

The first point is that the levels were super long and repetitive. The game felt like a maze and many of our play testers did not even make it past the first level because they spent so long wandering around the randomly generated rooms and could not find their way out. Our solution was to decrease the amount of randomly generated rooms greatly. This seems like a fairly easy solution but it was a great improvement. We still wanted the player to feel as if they were progressing through exploring the randomly generated rooms but also did not want them to feel stuck. 

The second point was the combat system did not feel very satisfactory to the players and even often proved to be very repetitive and unenjoyable. The battles felt too long and players felt trapped and bored while battling enemies. We had two solutions for this. The first one was to create a skill point system where the player was able to level up certain stats such as attack and defense to make you more powerful, be able to end the battles quicker, and progress without feeling bored from the random enemy encounters. We also created another system where the players were able to
switch out abilities for new ones. This way the player might be able to have a
different experience in combat instead of having to spam the same attack over
and over again.