Our consulting services provide hard-hitting feedback from professional and experienced evaluators. Our reports help set realistic expectations for your product's reception, as well as provide the opportunity to fix or change aspects that can make a more enjoyable experience for the end user. The result? Better reviews, better word of mouth, and potentially better sales.
What is Preval™?
Off Base Production's PREVAL™ service provides publishers with hard-hitting feedback from professional and experienced evaluators. The benefit is two-fold: our reports help set realistic expectations for your game's reception, as well as provide the opportunity to fix or change aspects of the game that can make a more enjoyable experience for the end user. The result? Better reviews, better word of mouth, and potentially better sales. Our assessments are detailed, comprehensive, and address key title elements including control, graphics, sound, difficulty, audience, and that elusive X factor: gameplay. Multiple, independent evaluators are available to prepare each report, ensuring that you receive an accurate sampling from a variety of perspectives.
Why Work With Off Base Productions?
Developing a videogame is an exhausting — and expensive — process. Stakes are high, the pressure to produce a hit enormous. With so much focus on making the game, it's easy to lose the objectivity of an outside perspective. Focus groups can only provide limited feedback, and marketing charts don't offer the full scope of a targeted trend. Our background speaks for itself: objectively, informatively, and entertainingly evaluating games from top to bottom. Let Off Base give you a glimpse of how yours will be received.
Our Capabilities
Complete Cross-Media Analysis
The enthusiast press rate games differently than consumer outlets, but both scores are important to your game's sales. PREVALs provide rankings across the spectrum, estimating likely review scores given by an enthusiast magazine, an enthusiast website, a consumer magazine, and a consumer newspaper. Let us give you a fair estimate on how your game will be received by the critics.
Improve Your Game
PREVALs provide a detailed, impartial analysis: what the game is doing right, and what could be improved. Instead of discussing problems in a general sense, we specifically target the biggest issues your title faces... and suggest how to correct them.
Competitive Analysis
No game exists — or is reviewed — in a vacuum. PREVALs assess how your game stacks up to previous entries and recent releases in the genre — the titles consumers will judge yours against. We also look ahead to the game's projected release date, and consider how it will fare against other titles released at the same time.
Demo Disc Selection
Be it standalone, a retail kiosk demo, or part of a cover mount disc, choosing the best slice of software to share is critical for creating successful "buzz." We'll suggest the most attractive component of your game for packaging as a demo, taking the guesswork out of choosing.
Sample PreVal™
A sample composite PREVAL™
— edited for anonymity — is available upon request. Our pricing is competitive, and determined by each game's estimated completion time and number of evaluators desired. Naturally, you want the most effective bang for your buck, so we're happy to tailor the results to your requirements — from in-depth and extensive, to short and sweet. Multi-title contracts are, of course, always welcome.