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Post by miserablesalmon on Jul 30, 2014 11:29:17 GMT
Conor is a good guy Danjal, there's no need to get all personal just because he's another official voice on the forum. If you have criticisms of the studio or the game, please direct them towards me or Matthew. Conor is just trying to help. Nothing personal there George, just saying that if you're complaining about the attitude of some people (in direct response to his comment on the steam boards) - there's a reason why that exists. And as "face" of the company (regardless of whether you're responsible for something or not), you're going to receive some of the community response. Course, with that in mind. The ones actually in charge have rarely shown their faces in 'public'.  We can only hope that you few public figures can be so kind as to relay our messages and hope that one day it'll hit home. In any case, welcome to the trenches. There may or may not be cake at the end. We'll just have to wait and see. Mmmmhhh cake.. |
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Jul 30, 2014 11:34:14 GMT
How many hours of Godus play time do you think you have logged?
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Post by miserablesalmon on Jul 30, 2014 11:43:18 GMT
How many hours of Godus play time do you think you have logged? On steam both online and offline I have logged around 1600 hours of Godus, then on mobile testing I would guess...around 1100 more hours but that's hard to keep track on since we switch device and restart regularly...so roughly i would say close to 2700 hours of Godus played....and I still haven't been given a medal  |
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Jul 30, 2014 12:10:00 GMT
On steam both online and offline I have logged around 1600 hours of Godus, then on mobile testing I would guess...around 1100 more hours but that's hard to keep track on since we switch device and restart regularly...so roughly i would say close to 2700 hours of Godus played....and I still haven't been given a medal I feel your pain.  |
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Post by Casinha on Jul 30, 2014 12:22:56 GMT
Welcome to the (maybe slightly more friendly that steam) forums  I guess as we are doing the gently-grilling you for questions in this thread too, I should get my question in too! For your work in QA, at what kind of stage of bug-finding/fixing do you hand on over to other people? By this I mean, do you just have to find a bug and stick it on a spreadsheet, do you have to find what section of the code you think it is in and assign it to the person who coded that bit, do you have to go into the code and find the function that you think is messing up and then check if it's simple enough to fix yourself? I am not a coder so no I don't edit broken material myself, even if I was this would probably be a terrible idea and throw off the original writer when he comes back to it because he would have to familiarise himself with my changes before he could continue When we find a new issue or am able to reproduce a player bug in office we will write up a bug report in JIRA and send it off to production, obviously we try add as much detail as possible such as reproduction steps, priority, how often it we can reproduce it, the desired end result, essentially we try make it as easy as possible for the programmer/artist to who is responsible for fixing the issue to both find and then be able to work out what went wrong How hard is it for you to replicate bug reports? I imagine that due to each player's state in the game being a special snowflake it's quite hard? We used JIRA here in the office and found that given the low staff count (there are two of us) there wasn't really any point to using it. Would you call it a life-saver in your office? |
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Post by miserablesalmon on Jul 30, 2014 13:09:44 GMT
I am not a coder so no I don't edit broken material myself, even if I was this would probably be a terrible idea and throw off the original writer when he comes back to it because he would have to familiarise himself with my changes before he could continue When we find a new issue or am able to reproduce a player bug in office we will write up a bug report in JIRA and send it off to production, obviously we try add as much detail as possible such as reproduction steps, priority, how often it we can reproduce it, the desired end result, essentially we try make it as easy as possible for the programmer/artist to who is responsible for fixing the issue to both find and then be able to work out what went wrong How hard is it for you to replicate bug reports? I imagine that due to each player's state in the game being a special snowflake it's quite hard? We used JIRA here in the office and found that given the low staff count (there are two of us) there wasn't really any point to using it. Would you call it a life-saver in your office? Quite honestly if we didn't have JIRA the bug reports and lists would be a hopeless mess of unreadable information and we would never reproduce or fix anything, ever It's been a fantastic help in keeping track of issues and when we need them fixed for, all the additional information you can attach means the people responsible for the fix can get it done as quick as possible without having to ask too many questions Replicating bug reports can be a huge pain sometimes if its a really obscure bug of if the finder was never able to reproduce it more than once themselves, for exactly that reason that everybody game state is different in either subtle or dramatic ways... That's why if you ever bring an issue to the Bugs and Glitches section on steam I'll nearly always reply with a request for your save game be attached when you submit it This is another life-saver because it means we hardly ever have to start from scratch and attempt to play exactly like the person who found the issue, we can drag it in, load it up, and skip all the build up normally required |
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Post by Matthew Allen on Jul 30, 2014 17:45:12 GMT
Looks like Conor can't decide on his username. Do we need to start a get Conor a nickname thread? By the way, what are you colleagues calling you at the office now? His nickname is El'poro. |
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Post by Lord Ba'al on Jul 30, 2014 18:02:59 GMT
Do we need to start a get Conor a nickname thread? By the way, what are you colleagues calling you at the office now? His nickname is El'poro. Yes but I was asking YOU. What are your colleagues calling YOU at the office now? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2014 18:11:17 GMT
Yes but I was asking YOU. What are your colleagues calling YOU at the office now? I'm guessing they're still calling him by his old name. The name that he was called before there were offices, forums, or words. Matt'thulu the.... |
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Post by Matthew Allen on Jul 30, 2014 21:25:39 GMT
Yes but I was asking YOU. What are your colleagues calling YOU at the office now? I'm guessing they're still calling him by his old name. The name that he was called before there were offices, forums, or words. Matt'thulu the.... I kind of like the idea that the adjective following "the" changes every time it's posted. Also this. |
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Post by Monkeythumbz on Jul 31, 2014 10:57:55 GMT
Matt'thulu the cunt?
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Post by Casinha on Jul 31, 2014 11:11:36 GMT
 Mine virgin ears
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Post by Monkeythumbz on Jul 31, 2014 11:28:54 GMT
Mine virgin ears You should see our Skype chats... not for the feint hearted. |
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Post by Casinha on Jul 31, 2014 11:30:39 GMT
Mine virgin ears You should see our Skype chats... not for the feint hearted. Hmm, Cards Against Humany plug-in for Skype, aynone? |
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Post by Qetesh on Jul 31, 2014 11:47:16 GMT
You should see our Skype chats... not for the feint hearted. Hmm, Cards Against Humany plug-in for Skype, aynone? I love that Game! That would be an interesting thing to see if it could be done.  |
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Post by Casinha on Jul 31, 2014 11:55:40 GMT
Hmm, Cards Against Humany plug-in for Skype, aynone? I love that Game! That would be an interesting thing to see if it could be done. Rather than a plug-in for Skype, it could easily be made into an app for mobiles. In fact I'd be surprised if one hasn't already been made, Q&A games are hardly patentable. |
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Post by Matthew Allen on Jul 31, 2014 14:08:22 GMT
See, George. This is why you and I get along. |
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Post by Monkeythumbz on Jul 31, 2014 14:11:57 GMT
See, George. This is why you and I get along. Oh, YOU!  |
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Post by Danjal on Jul 31, 2014 14:36:10 GMT
And they wonder why people are worried about the progression of Godus.... ;P
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Post by miserablesalmon on Jul 31, 2014 14:43:39 GMT
And they wonder why people are worried about the progression of Godus.... ;P So we're looking for a card in our hand to fill the "..." space right?? You're all going down... |
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