Note for Mobile Game Testers: Common Defects in Mobile Games

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Mobile game testing has its own characteristics. They include, for example, game mechanics (the response of the game to certain actions of users in accordance with the laid down set of rules), gameplay (responsible for the interaction of the player and the game itself).

Therefore, the errors found during such testing deserve a separate description.

What are the defects in mobile games? Consider the most common ones.

Defects in the game user interface

In any game, mobile or PC, the user interface must be clear. Otherwise, players simply will not understand what is required of them and how they should act at one point or another in the game.

Typical interface errors include:

  1. lack of adaptation to different screens;
  2. there are no prompts (where needed);
  3. slow response to user’s actions;
  4. an illogical structure;
  5. unpredictable behavior of interface elements.

Problems with game graphics and animation

Graphics don’t cease to surprise us with an amazing leap forward. Today, some mobile games look so realistic that they are difficult to distinguish from films.

But the more complex technologies become, the more defects can occur when they are developed and used.

Visual bugs are a common category of graphics testing errors. These are the break of the image on the screen, the absence of textures, and the cropping of certain areas of the image.

When creating graphics and animations of mobile games, the same engines are used as for PCs, only they are adapted to certain platforms. Therefore, the mistakes encountered in such games are similar.

Game Physics Violations

The physics of the game is the process of modeling the objects of the world around us on a computer. Physical modeling is used to immerse the user as much as possible in the game and make it as realistic as possible.

The physics of the game includes modeling solids, liquids, clothes, hair, particle systems, fire, as well as the interaction of objects with each other.

With violations of physics, situations arise when objects begin to soar in the air for no reason or cannot stop after they have been pushed. Or they cannot fully interact with other objects, for example, instead of touching them, they begin to pass through objects.

So we called not all, but the most important errors of mobile games. Professional testing of mobile games helps to fix them. As a result of the experienced testers’ work, users receive high-quality games for mobile gadgets.