Shaun Wild

It's been a productive few years.

I'm back.

quite cool: blog.thimbleweedpark.com/yay_testertron3000

@Tyyppi_77 @nwp someone made a tester bot for their game that does random actions until the game crashes

I doubt it would eat many resources?

For a 2d game?

deep

And then you have the confidence your game works..

If it fails on a level, you could re record that level (say you forgot you added a box somewhere) which would be add 10 minutes, but that's still less than 30 (or 2 hours)

Another advantage to the prerecorded input for testing a game is that the input can be played at max speed, without rendering turned on. So you could potentially do an entire runthrough of your game in seconds, which could could take 30 minutes for you to do manually

:(

lmao I am

But what if you don't?

>hmm

but if your predefined bot does it fine, why bother?

The only alternative is to play the game yourself

The way I see it

That would be cool.

I wonder if we could use AI to test levels

Same with my game

Good guess

Oh I guessed that part

^

(or want the tests to pass)

If you change it

But you must redo the test for that level

It can

That's literally the point of testing, to ensure that stuff doesn't happen

and spawned too many enemies

you messed up

For example, the test could fail if the player doesn't match where it should be at a given time, meaning you fucked up part of one of the maps or something like that

I think we do though?

computers are very good at remaining deterministicly

But at the same time

It does

That run without the timestep and rendering turned off I guess

So you record the user input for 1 succesful runthrough and ensure all psuedorandom will run the same way

Did you take alot of inspiration from this site?

Or whether most game testing is manual

I'm interested in how stuff like that would be achieved in games

ah ok

Do you have any kind of automated testing for your game?

@Tyyppi_77 Are you still working on your metal slug-esque game?

I'm confusing Markdown

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Oh ye, I remember

I canny remember codeblocks

Sorry just experimenting hehe

bool test

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