Some of you may have already noticed that we have a new Community team. In addition to running our Support, we try to be active in the Steam Community, and some other places as well. 🙂 As a part of this, we wanted to start a new blog series called “A Day in the Life of…” – the purpose of which is to introduce us and other people here at the Frozenbyte office, and perhaps offer you kind of a sneak peek into what life is like here.
During the next several months we’ll be going through the many different departments here and write blog posts about each one. Before each post, you will be given a chance to ask questions from the department in turn next. We’ll then go poke around the office, do an interview using some of your questions, and then publish a blog post with the interview and probably some other stuff as well. We’ll add some pictures, of course!
We will try to keep this blog series running in sort of a regular basis, but we won’t make any definite promises about the schedule; longer delays may occur when we are really busy.
The first department we’ll be covering is our Quality Assurance team (QA). QA is very important for us, and we actually do all of our game testing ourselves, as opposed to outsourcing it. At the moment, QA is one of our largest teams. Post your questions to our QA team in the comments below!
We’ll give you a while to post questions before starting to work on on the interview. Keep in mind though that we might not be able to answer all questions, especially if they are about secret stuff. 😉
Cheers all,
Marjut & Riikka
Frozenbyte Community Team
14 comments on “A Day in the Life of…”
Cool!
I don’t have any specific question at the moment, but I am really looking forward to read the post ; )
I would like to have trine 3 with unreal engine in it..it will be super cool and super 3d
or oculus rift with first person view 😀
Does the QA team give the devs a hard time e.g. they want things perfect or are they ready to make compromises?
In Trine 2 on Wii u, if you die fighting the Golem in the Goblin Menace expansion, and restart at the last checkpoint, the combat area is still sealed off, preventing me from progressing.
Unfortunately, this can happen if you miss the checkpoint which is in the combat area when you face the Rock Golem. If this happens you have to restart the level to continue. Sorry for the inconvenience. 🙁
You should be able to confirm the checkpoint is activated by jumping in front of it.
If you need any more support with our games, please contact us by email to Support[at]Frozenbyte[dot]com.
Cheers!
Do you only test Frozenbyte’s games or do you also test games for other companies? I’d imagine testing and playing the same game or two for a year straight could get boring.
Our QA team does indeed only test Frozenbyte games. One thing you have to keep in mind is that when you’re doing QA on a game, you have a very different mentality than when you’re playing it for fun. You don’t typically sit down and blindly play the game as a new player would.
QA testing is methodical and clearly structured. As QA you have a list of specific tasks that need to be tested on any given day, for example a new feature or bug fix from the code team, or some new assets from the art team, and what kind of testing you do will vary greatly from day to day, or month to month as a given product evolves and approaches release, and even into post-release patches.
So yes, while it can be tedious, you’re not actually doing the exact same thing for two years straight. As QA you’re as much a part of the game development process as the other teams.
It’s “sneak peek”, not “sneak peak” 🙂
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Whoops, you’ve caught a typo. 😉 Fixed it.
I have a bug in chapter 10, in the second island at the beginning, i shall had 2 coconuts and one exp orb up there, but i have only 1 coco, and any exp, in that chapter have 129/130 exp, and onnly need that one to got all, so i dont know how can fix that, i repeat the chapter lot of times and watch videos, and in videos can see how are 2 cocos and exp, and i have only 1. Im really frustrated for that, but dont know what shall i do. Can you help me?
I think you already wrote to the Steam forums about this, and I answered you there. The amount of coconuts seems to be correct, and it sounds likely the issue is with some other EXP than the one you pointed out. They can sometimes be quite tricky to find. 🙂 However, if you’re still having difficulties and are conviced this is a bug, I recommend you either reply to the Steam discussion or email to us: support[at]frozenbyte[dot]com
Hello,
Any chance to see Trine/Trine2 (game, comics) on iOS?
Thx
Unfortunately, we currently don’t have any plans for this. Thank you for your interest! 🙂
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