Slides from today's Indie Games Summit at FIU

1. REAL GOOD UNREAL TESTING CHARLES P. SCHULTZ Author “Game Testing All In One” INDIE GAMES SUMMIT

6. GAME PHASES PRE-GAME ACTIVATE GAME START Initialize system components Load maps and game assets Establish network communication Game controllers detected etc. IN-GAME POST-GAME DEACTIVATE INDIE GAMES SUMMIT

11. RESTART “ You can fast swap weapons to reload the first one to make it fire faster, for example you can shoot the sniper, quickly swap to another weapon lets say hammer, swap back and shoot the sniper again as the reload time has been wiped” BUG EXAMPLE INDIE GAMES SUMMIT

25. ANY QUESTIONS?

26. EXTRAS

27. ESCAPED PROBLEMS CONFIGURATION Unreal Tournament 3 flickers after playing for some time / UT3 Flickering screen Solution A : Make sure that you are using the latest drivers. Solution B : Turn down / Turn-ff Anisotropic Filtering in UT3′s menu Unreal Tournament 3 models are the same for all players after playing the first map. Make sure that the ‘Allow custom characters’ option is checked in the options. This is because there are times that the config dont get saved or some of the items in the options menu gets randomly checked. Make sure that the UT3 config is changed after ticking the “allow custom characters” option by checking the options menu again after closing.

28. CONFIGURATION Unreal Tournament 3 Configs dont get saved / UT3 settings and cd-key not saved / cd-key problem Make sure that the MY DOCUMENTS or and UT3 folder is not set as read-only Cannot Play Unreal Tournament 3 Campaign Open the UTEngine.ini (My Documentsy Gamesnreal Tournament 3TGameonfig) and change PumpWindowMessagesWhenRenderThreadStalled=False to PumpWindowMessagesWhenRenderThreadStalled=True ESCAPED PROBLEMS