Record your first playtest

By the end you'll have a session of yourself playing, with two moments your game marked, open on Studio's timeline. Nothing leaves your PC: an in-person session is written to a local folder.

1. Add the package

In Unity, open Window › Package Manager, select + › Add package from tarball…, and pick com.mulno.playtest-0.4.1.tgz, the file you download from the web app after signing in (Download page). The capture DLL and the uploader come inside it.

2. Make a config

Open Project Settings › Mulno Playtest and select Create Config. It saves Assets/Settings/PlaytestConfig.asset, where the recording quality (Standard by default), the tester hotkeys and consent live.

3. Mark two moments

Call Playtest.Mark where something happens, and wrap anything with a length in a span. Keys are strings like castle/boss_room; the Playtest Catalog can check them later.

using Mulno.Playtest;

void OnCheckpoint()
{
    Playtest.Mark("checkpoint/reached");
}

IEnumerator BossFight()
{
    using (Playtest.Span("castle/boss_room"))
    {
        yield return RunFight();   // the whole fight becomes one clip
    }
}

4. Build a playtest player

Use Tools › Mulno Playtest › Build Playtest Player (Windows x64), or the Playtest build profile on Unity 6. Both add MULNO_PLAYTEST for that build only.

5. Play, then watch it

Run the player, accept the consent screen, and play for a minute. Press F6 once to flag something. Quit. The recorder logs the session's folder in the player's log (%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\<company>\<product>\Player.log) as a line that starts [Mulno] Recording and ends with session <folder>. By default sessions are written to a MulnoSessions folder under your game's Unity persistentDataPath.

Open Studio. On its first run it asks Where do your playtests record?: choose Local or network folder and give it that folder, or the MulnoSessions folder that holds it, then Open folder. Studio reads sessions where they are; nothing is copied or moved. Your checkpoint is a tick, the boss fight a clip, and your flag a yellow mark you can jump to. Press Ctrl K to find any action, and ? for every key.

If nothing shows up, check the log: recording exists only in a build made with the MULNO_PLAYTEST define, and a stale mulno_capture.dll under a newer package is refused at startup with an error that says so. Replace the whole package, then rebuild.