playtests and your audience

What I like to tell people is that the process of finding playtesters for your game is a dry run for the process of publishing your game. If you do not have people lining up to playtest your game, that means you will not have people lining up to play your game once they can buy it."

-Vincent Baker, during his talk during Ropecon 2013 entitled "D Vincent Baker: the Man, Career, and Games."