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QA and Support
Section about testing and building support departments in the gaming industry. News, advice, and case studies.
Google is expanding its Google Play Games service by adding several important features. One of them is support for games built specifically for PC.
Paradox Interactive and Harebrained Schemes, the studio behind Shadowrun and BattleTech, have decided to part ways. This comes just days after the new turn-based tactics The Lamplighters League proved to be a commercial flop.
More than 8 thousand developers have applied to participate in the beta test of the Russian Nau Engine. It was possible to achieve such a figure in three months: the collection of applications was opened in June.
Publisher 505 Games has entered into an agreement with Ghostrunner 2 developer One More Level. The terms imply that the studio is committed to actively supporting the game for a year after its global launch.
The UK government has announced an additional funding of £77 million to accelerate the growth of the country’s creative sectors. This also applies to the video game industry, where developers and emerging studios will be able to receive help at early stages.
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain has detailed the process of writing design documents and how to avoid situations where people are making different games despite working on the same team. Here are some professional tips from one of the most recognized RPG developers.
VK Group has announced the start of accepting applications for testing a domestic game engine. She also revealed the name of the engine — Nau Engine.
Steam has announced major changes to traffic data reporting. The platform will no longer support Google Analytics, instead giving developers more first-party tools.
Google has applied for a patent for a technology that allows you to test games using artificial intelligence. The corporation expects that it will significantly accelerate work on games.
MMO Palia about life in the village has not yet been released, but it has already attracted hundreds of thousands of users. The developers from Singularity 6 said that to date, 600 thousand people have applied to participate in testing the game.
Electronic Arts has conducted a new round of mass layoffs. The entire testing team at the Baton Rouge, Louisiana office that worked on Apex Legends has reportedly been disbanded. And none of the QA workers knew about it in advance.
Appodeal has prepared a detailed tutorial on split testing of monetization on its platform.
The studio was founded by industry veteran Joel Benton, who previously worked at Codemasters, Just Add Water and The Aon Agency.
VK reports that its streaming platform has interested such streamers as Ilya Maddison, Danya Craster and Olyashaa.
Over the weekend, the story spread that Cyberpunk 2077 came out raw due to an unscrupulous QA contractor, Quantic Labs. They say that she did a bad job with testing the game, deceived the leadership of the Polish studio and, in general, let the developers down.
How exactly is the process of A/B testing of visual content for app stores built in Belka Games, – in his article for App2Top.ru the leading ASO-manager of the company Anastasia Personal told.
tinyBuild is expanding. The company includes the American publisher Versus Evil and its internal studio Red Cerberus, specializing in QA. The total amount of the transaction may amount to $31.3 million.The Banner Saga 3
The release of a trilogy of remasters of classic GTA turned into a failure. User ratings on Metacritic dropped to 0.5/10 — one of the worst results in history. Players complain massively about bugs, the depressing technical condition of the project and demand a refund. At the same time, remasters were unavailable for launch for three days.
Today, a full-fledged release of PUBG: New State took place on mobile platforms. It turned out to be problematic. Many players were unable to log into the game as a result of a server malfunction. There were also a lot of bugs in the project, some of which have already been recognized by the developers themselves.
Testers often do not receive proper recognition in the gaming industry. Jocelyn Baxter, the screenwriter of Eidos Montreal, decided to fix the situation. She said that most of the Guardians of the Galaxy storyline was written by those who had previously been involved in testing.
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy was released today. Despite the initial skepticism, the game exceeded the expectations of many critics. Some even call it “the new standard for comic book video games.” However, there were some negative aspects. Most of all complain about the abundance of bugs and too simple fighting.
Tomorrow Valve will start testing the official version of Steam for China. However, local users expressed their dissatisfaction with what was happening. They fear that they will soon be deprived of the opportunity to play thousands of games due to the unavailability of the international version of the store.What is the dissatisfaction of gamers?
Diablo Immortal has started closed testing in Australia
· 3 years agoBlizzard announced the start of closed alpha testing of Diablo Immortal, a mobile offshoot of the famous RPG. Only users from Australia will be able to participate in it. They will have to check the technical condition of the project. At the same time, the game still does not have a release date.
In the Play Store, it is now possible to compare several applications with each other on the same screen. While the function is in test mode, however, Google itself does not say when it will become available to a wide range of users and whether it will be at all.Attention was drawn to this by the Android Police portal.
The authors of Angry Birds have become another company that decided to borrow the experience of Playrix. She released match-3, which is very close in mechanics and concept to such box office hits as Homescapes and Gardenscapes.
Maxim Kordonets — Head of Community & Support of Belka Games studio — in his column for readers App2Top.ru he shared his experience of how he rebuilt the community and support department in a mobile company in a year.
EA will conduct technical testing of its cloud platform
· 5 years agoTechnical testing of Project Atlas starts on Wednesday. This is a cloud gaming service from Electronic Arts.
One of the reasons why the early Obsidian games were so busy on release is the publisher’s desire to release them to the market as soon as possible. This opinion was expressed by Obsidian Design Director Josh Sawyer.
Ubisoft has announced the Bug Hunter Program in the Rainbow Six Siege team shooter. As part of this initiative, users receive in-game content for detecting errors inside the game.
The open beta testing of the version of the GameMaker Studio 2 engine with the Nintendo Switch license has begun, which allows you to develop and port games for a hybrid console.
Study: Bad Game Design Infuriates Gamers More than Bugs
· 6 years agoCanadian scientists from Queens University have found out what spoils the impression of video games. It turned out that bad game design annoys players the most when the gameplay is not exciting and makes them bored.
Players boycott FIFA 18 due to bugs and balance
· 6 years agoElectronic Arts is boycotting again, this time by FIFA 18 fans. Sportssim fans launched the #FixFIFA campaign with an appeal not to buy the game on sale on the occasion of “Black Friday” until the developers fix their mistakes.
4 tools for A/B testing of game pages in mobile stores
· 7 years agoAbout the most popular solutions for A/B testing in mobile, – Soomla company told.
TinyCo, developer of Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff, published a presentation from her speech at the GDC Next conference, which took place in November 2014 in Los Angeles. In it, the company revealed why it is important for mobile developers to work with the gaming community.
“Dragon Towers” (aka Dragon Warlords), a tug-of-war game in the universe of the popular role-playing game “Dragons of Eternity”, has entered the closed beta testing stage, Game Insight reports.
Alexander Dzyuba from Playtestix spoke at the recently concluded conference for mobile game developers White Nights 2014. We are posting a video with his speech and presentation.
Three hares of linguistic testing
· 10 years ago
Closed beta testing of World of Tanks Blitz has begun
· 10 years agoA year after the announcement of World of Tanks, Blitz has finally reached the status of a closed beta version for iOS.
"Pitfalls" of A/B testing
· 10 years agoEric Surfert, Marketing Director of Wooga, told in his blog why you should not focus on data collection and analysis.
What is localization testing and what is it for?
· 11 years agoOne hour to learn about localization testing is the most important thing.All Correct Localization is an expert in the field of localization of games.
BreakDance: 1vs1 battles (beginning of open beta testing)
· 11 years agoThe Israeli company TestFairy has launched a platform for testing applications for Android.
Testing and service
· 11 years agoThe phrase “games are a service” is already perceived as a banality today. But when developing, it often happens that developers forget about it. And they continue to work with the game as an end product.
A service for testing monetization has appeared
· 11 years agoGamesAnalytics has launched a free service designed to help developers evaluate monetization and retention levels in f2p games.
Android application testing is a new service of Promwad
· 11 years agoPromwad Electronics Design Center announces the launch of a service for comprehensive testing of Android applications, which will ensure high quality software products and their correct operation on smartphones, tablets and other devices running Android OS.
AppThwack told about application testing
· 12 years agoAt the Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE) conference, Trent Peterson from AppThwack, a company that tests Android applications, advised developers on several tools that will help optimize application testing.
Testing applications for Android
· 12 years agoHow many devices are needed to test the game for Android, – the authors of the blog Tesgish asked themselves, and turned to the developers of mobile programs with it. The answers of some of them may well scare even a seasoned tester.
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There is little talk about games in the Telegram messenger. We decided to fix the situation by talking with Daria Novikova, product director at PlayDeck startup. The latter launched a gaming marketplace for Telegram. In a conversation with Daria, we touched on topics such as user engagement, earnings from leading projects, monetization and, of course, PlayDeck itself.