For many Pokemon fans, the dream came true.

Traveling around, capturing your Pokémon from, and visiting, a number of Poke stops is an amazing concept to experience. For every Pokémon you catch, you get “Candies” credited to its first stage of evolution, along with 100 Stardust Points, and experience for you, the trainer.

You get 600 points for newly caught Pokémon. The higher your level is, the stronger the Pokémon you’ll encounter. The Pokemon can also be lowered with Combat Power (CP) to the Professor to get one candy per Pokémon.

The Stardust and Candies can be used to power up the Pokémon. The best part is that the game has built-in achievements.

If you catch 50 Flying-type Pokémon then you get a medal.
Do these medals serve a purpose? No!
Then what is the point of giving us these medals without giving us some incentive to complete these wild Pokémon AI?

This is without a doubt the worst part of the game. Pokémon can break out of Poke balls, and run away. The problem lies within the frequency of times both of these things can happen. One can go through six or more Poke balls on one wild Pokémon. Then only for it to run away, which is pretty much disappointing the player. The game has raspberries that a gamer can give to the Pokémon. Giving raspberries can prevent the Pokémon from running away. However, sometimes even if you give raspberry to the Pokémon, it might still run away after a Poke ball.

This game had very high expectations. It became a game changer for both mobile and AR market. One of the major issues while playing this game is that the battery drains out quickly. This might annoy the gamer who is playing the game seriously. This is one of the reason, why users started uninstalling the game.

One another issue with this game is the gameplay becomes unresponsive after dodging an attack during a ‘Gym battle’. The development team is still working to fix this issue.

Since this game downloads the images each time you open the mobile application, it consumes much more data. The new update takes time for loading graphics.

There are some issues regarding this game because some Pokémon’s may locate in hills and top of the buildings these caused many people accidents and struck in trouble. People started playing while walking or while driving to catch the Pokémon. People are also walking into strangers’ yards, which could easily lead to confrontations. While it is often a bit hilarious to hear some of these Pokémon gameplay stories but sometimes it is also a bit disconcerting.

Conclusion

Conclusion is that the concept of the game is good and many have been playing since release. These are the biggest issues and concerns with Pokémon GO so far.

Ultimately, I think Pokémon GO is a cool game in many ways. The game is really a big deal for Nintendo. Certainly, it appears to be a success already.

Just remember, do not play the game while driving, and do not be a creeper.

Feel free to share yours in the comments, or tell how I am wrong

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This may sound challenging – especially when producers launch their games globally as the game must run well across devices.

If we look at the portion of Google Play and App Store revenues, they are generated by mobile games. There is absolute necessity to seamlessly test and test automation for the mobile game components

Challenges in Testing Mobile Games

The mobile game market segment has ferociously contended and the game users have short attention span. Customer’s lifetime value for each game is heavily dependent on additional content and user relationship. This means that everything has to work over several application updates, back-end updates over an extended period of time to recover the initial marketing investments.

What are the challenges to test the aspects of mobile games?

Firstly, a majority of games use direct screen access in form of OpenGL or ActiveX bypassing the OS level services. This leads to the problem that all of the native mobile test automation frameworks are becomes unusable with mobile games. Without access to the object level information the automation can only utilize XY clicks without ample feedback or validation about the internal status of the game.

Secondly, performance is a key driver for user experience and the real performance can only be monitored using real hardware. Frame rates also matter with the richness and variety of mobile devices, where every model counts.

In fact, sometimes supporting just one more popular Asian mobile device model can bring additional $5 million of revenue during the lifetime of a game.

Also for many game application binaries are massive (which sums up to 3Gb) and games consume a lot of memory, CPU, GPU, and battery. All these need to be accounted for performance testing so that the real end user experience does not face issues to physical realities of mobile devices.

Finally, most of the games utilize sensors or other hardware features that are not consistent from one device to another. This is left unchecked and will prove to be a nasty surprise down the road.

The range of tools used, methods, best practices and frameworks for mobile game testing is pretty huge, but there are certain things that all game developers do the same way. In spite of different game engines selected, over 90% of game developers use some form of image recognition.

We will discuss more about mobile game testing techniques in our upcoming blogs. Stay Tuned for updates.

HAPPY GAME TESTING!!!

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