🎮 Playtest Harness — 48 tests

8 perspectives6 content types3 dimensions144 scores48 essays

8 LLM perspectives × 6 gamified content types × 3 dimensions = 144 scores + 48 essays + 48 concrete suggestions. Each perspective wrote a 250-word lived-experience essay. Then scored Fun, Educational, Modification Ease. Read the essays to understand the lived experience. Read the scores to see what's working.

The demos

🎪 Quilt Playground 🧬 Cell Zoo

Scores by content type

ContentFunEduModVisualization
Apps (8 production apps)7.77.35.2
Cells (26 kinds)7.45.53.5
Erised (44 scenarios)8.06.05.7
Makepad (9-cell demo)7.06.03.9
Music (composition demo)8.26.24.4
Radio (Fleet Radio episode)7.64.53.5

Scores by perspective

PerspectiveFunEduModWhat they want
Kid (8)8.74.04.5Big buttons, sounds, sparkles, save-my-stuff
Teen (15)6.03.02.0Customize my character, drop the cringe, share with friends
Teacher7.56.75.0Learning objectives, rubrics, classroom dashboard
Parent6.86.64.8Multi-kid support, schedule, safety
SpEd7.25.83.8Accessibility (alt text, captions, motor)
Designer7.86.85.0Core loop, dopamine, retention
Curriculum7.05.54.7Scaffolding, formative assessment, scope
Outsider8.06.02.8"What is this?" button on every app

The wins

  1. Erised scenario corpus (44 scenarios): highest fun + mod. Cooperative fiction works.
  2. Music demo: highest fun. Live composition is a hit.
  3. Apps: solid fun + best educational value.
  4. Kid perspective: 8.7 fun. If kids would play it, you've won.
  5. Modification ease on Erised: highest mod score. Cast + keywords + ticks is approachable.

The gaps

  1. Cells are opaque (3.5 mod). 26 kinds, no discovery.
  2. Radio can't be remixed (3.5 mod). Most produced, least modifiable.
  3. Radio has weak learning value (4.5 edu). Entertainment, not curriculum.
  4. Teens hate it (6.0 fun). Cringe is the killer. Customization is the missing piece.
  5. No "What is this?" onboarding. Outsiders can't figure it out.

Action items (priority order)

  1. ✅ Add "What is this?" button to every Quilt app + radio track + cell (built into Cell Zoo and Playground)
  2. ✅ Build a Cells-as-Game UI (built at /quilt-claw-cells-game/)
  3. 🔲 Add a Remix button to Fleet Radio tracks
  4. ✅ Build a Kids' Quilt-Music Studio (built at /quilt-playground/?tab=music)
  5. 🔲 Add classroom dashboard to Erised — teacher sees each student's run, can pause and annotate
  6. 🔲 Add accessibility overlays — captions on radio, alt text on cells, keyboard nav
  7. ✅ Build a Quilt Playground (built at /quilt-playground/)

All 48 playtest reports

By perspective