Workshops Test automation workshops for game studios — Unreal, Unity, and Godot

You should be someone familiar with unity or unreal, and able to code, although you don't need to be an expert programmer.

Happy to answer questions!

automatedaf.dev/workshops

Lots of testimonials on the website, but here's one of my recent favourites:

"Even fairly late in the project lifecycle, we were able to hugely improve build health, and are saving hours of dev and tester time every day"
- Dan Gronner, Lead QA, Nosebleed Interactive

You'll learn:
- The benefits of test automation for gamedev
- The fail-fast-fail-hard mindset, and the benefits it brings even without automation
- The tooling in your engine
- The 3 most useful test types and when to use them
- What tests to avoid
- Structuring tests so they survive long-term

Workshops | Andrew Fray I work closely with studios to help them get the most out of test automation, so they can ship more stable builds more easily. Part of that is training a team to understand what good tests look like a...

If you want to iterate faster and ship more stable builds, you should learn about writing automated tests.

I'm offering a few one-day public workshop on test automation in video games, for both unreal and unity devs, Pay What You Want.

automatedaf.dev/workshops

It’s worse than this because protected doesn’t even do what they think it does - it’s for encapsulation but there’s no constraint on who can derive this class and call it. It might as well be public.

Some cycle improvements from code agents:
- sharing prototypes instead of docs
- non-programmers making their own (throwaway) tools
- autonomous code reviews for the low hanging fruit
- a leg-up in unfamiliar code, reducing bus factor

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cult...

Anyone focusing on AI gains in Lines Of Code is missing the point.

If that was useful, we would have been hiring programmers this whole time based on typing speed.

This post is the right way to think about things: cycle time, not output.

andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-...

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems | Debugging Leadership AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cult...

writing code faster just means you arrive at "oh fuck" sooner.

andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-...

Normalise sharing your in-game debug tools and giving it an evocative name for players

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So important for regression testing too!

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Spirit Crossing 14.9 is live!

we've got..
🎲 new quests & activities
🎩 customization updates
💎 art / UI refresh
🏡 WALLPAPER.
+ requested Quality of Life updates!

available now on Android and iOS (via Testflight)
+ wishlist on Steam!
s.team/a/2321960

more details here. ↓
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I can never understate how automated tests - not unit tests - using my custom framework have improved my productivity. Tests are focused on tricky code, unobvious behaviors or when combinatorial explosion would make manual testing redhibitory.
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Hi hi, Dear ImGui 1.92.7 is released!
50+ changes (e.g. tables reworked columns freezing with hidden columns, reorder from context menu, webgpu for emscripten 5 & wgvk native, nav keyboard/gamepad to open context menus, & many fixes/improvements)
github.com/ocornut/imgu...

[FOR HIRE]
Is anyone looking for a part-time, Art director + VFX + Environment + Game + level designer type? I am looking to supplement my current work slate!

I wear many hats & can wear 1 or all for your project, all for indie friendly rates.

DM/reply if you are interested.
RT's appreciated!

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The ultimate power fantasy if you happen to live in a poxy little room in a shared flat in london, paying £1600 a month for the priviliage of not having a living room.

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Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace in Project Hail Mary. He’s wearing a heavy knit Scandinavian (?) cardigan, creamy white with a knitted red Rudolph motif.

The musical kids got their elpheba sex cardigan. Now the space nerds get their grace science cardigan.

The people crave cosy knitwear.

If a game launches with bugs, it’s almost certainly not “bad QA”

hear me out,

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a screenshot from the game Spirit Crossing from the studio Spry Fox. shown is a group of 5 players dressed up in fancy clothes posing together for a picture. they're all emoting together happily.

a screenshot from the game Spirit Crossing from the studio Spry Fox. three players are dressed up in fancy mythic clothes that glow, and they're pointing at one another to recreate the meme where Spiderman points at himself.

a screenshot from the game Spirit Crossing from the studio Spry Fox. a group of 5 players is dressed up to cosplay as the entire cast of Scooby Doo.

some recent fashion-spotting in Spirit Crossing. 🥰

photos lovingly pulled from our Discord members (thanks all 🧡)

It does?? Maybe I need to reply DS1 not on a Xbox 360 😅

I still suspect that the white ring lock-on from dark souls was programmer art. It’s so incongruous with the rest of the UI.

Today I put my dough in the oven with the light on to prove, only to later find out the oven was actually on fan at 100C

I was not in the zone

I thought I knew what based meant but maybe I don’t

Normalise sharing your test automation tooling

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We're able to do a lot with a small team on Dosa Divas with the help of a bunch of custom tools like our TestRun tool built by Justin our lead programmer. The tool will autoplay through the game at a faster speed to check for any obvious bugs using Unity's built in Navmesh agent.

More than that. Halfway through you need to DEscope! it’s short-term painful but it’s super productive to focus your team on what’s important.

a screenshot from the game Spirit Crossing by the studio Spry Fox. shown are two characters posing and wearing animal ears on their head

a screenshot from the game Spirit Crossing by the studio Spry Fox. shown are two characters posing together in front of a trolley, one wearing bunny ears on their head

a screenshot from the game Spirit Crossing by the studio Spry Fox. shown are two characters posing together in front of a house, both wearing tiny wolf ears on their heads

a screenshot from the game Spirit Crossing by the studio Spry Fox. shown are six characters sitting around a tea party table, all dressed up like they're theming as black cats together

delighted to see everyone embracing the Animal Ears Life ✨ in our game

screenshots provided by our Discord members 🧡
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