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Mobile App Tester/QA internship

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Our development team is seeking a self-motivated individual with a strong work ethic and a significant attention to detail. This role involves coordinating and testing our mobile game apps on a variety of phone/tablet devices and operating systems.

What You Will Be Doing
– Test each new game build thoroughly and comprehensively
– Report and detail bugs in the tracking database
– Organise Android and IOS testing with other team members
– Ensure our testing device database is up-to-date
– Managing build uploads to Goolge Play and the Apps Store

Fierce Fun is an app development studio specialising in mobile apps & online games, for Apple, Android and HTML5 platforms. We provide a supportive environment for a QA/tester to gain experience in a games app development company.

Ideal requirements:
– 3rd level qualification (preferably technical)
– Patience and focus required for mobile app testing
– Significant attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
– Excellent communication & documentation skills.
– Experience with Android and iPhone/iPad phones and tablets

Terms:
Duration      3 months
Days              1 to 1.5 days per week
Hours           Flexible
Location      Remote work

Game Development Services

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Game Development Services

Fierce Fun offers comprehensive Web and mobile games development service for digital publisher and advertisers. In our games library, we have 4 different games types:
 - Rebranding Complete Games
 - Prototype Games
 - Custom Games
 - Premium Mobile Games

Rebranding: Complete Games
A complete game is a finished game, normally in a Web format.
Standard Rebranding:
•    Name change
•    Logo change
•    Links change
•    Text change
•    Game license (non-exclusive)

Prototype Games
A prototype game is a concept game that has been designed, with initial graphics and basic interactivity. As such, they can be customised within the existing design.
Custom Prototype Game:
•    Game branding
•    Level completion
•    Game license
•    HTML5 (in most cases)

Custom Games
•    Game concept (in consultation with the client)
•    Game design and documentation
•    Interactive prototype
•    Content assets (graphics, animations, audio, text)
•    Level design and production
•    QA and user testing
•    Delivery and deployment
•    HTML5, mobile Web optimised

Premium Mobile Games
•    Game concept
•    Game design and documentation
•    Interactive prototype
•    Content assets (graphics, animations, audio, text)
•    Level design and production
•    QA and user testing
•    Delivery and deployment
•    Designed for the Google and Apple top 20 app charts
•    50 to 80+ levels
•    Multiple characters, backgrounds and game worlds
•    High quality, detailed UI, animations and characters animations
•    Fully developed storyline and game scripts
•    Significant original IP development
•    4 to 6+ hours of game play
•    Cross Platform (IOS, Android, Web, Windows, Steam, Yahoo)
•    Integrated social media features
•    Cross promotional ad service
•    Highscore and player registration systems

 

 

How to make Dublin the start-up capital of Europe

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Many of the components are already in place to make Dublin the start-up capital of Europe. We believe Dublin (and Ireland) has real identifiable strengths in software development, rather than hardware. Owing to their nature, software businesses require less resources to start and, in general, grow faster. With the right focus and structures, Dublin has the potential to become the focal point for European start-ups looking to target the US and international markets.

We believe the following action points as important to further increase Dublin’s potential as a leading start-up hub:

  • Form a focus group of start-up CEOs to work with the various state bodies and give quick feedback on proposed initiatives
  • Create a virtual start-up package in partnership with Irish multinationals including Microsoft (Azure), Google (App Engine), Amazon (AWS) and Facebook (social platform).
  • Provide a ‘pitching platform’ to increase the number of start-up proposals reaching Irish and international funders and VCs.
  • Create a large open office space area for qualifying startups. If you ask most start-ups, office space is more important than funding during the very early stages. Even with virtual offices, physical teams work faster and more efficiently.

In Ireland and particularly Dublin, there are multiple stakeholders involved in the start-up ecosystem including incubators, banks, VCs, universities, multinationals and government enterprise agencies. Some of these organisations work well together. Others either overlap or do not communicate. This is a key area where the we need to ensure a more efficient start-up ecosystem.

Games Development & Production – Process and Documentation

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To help game development students and other devs, we have provided some of the games development documentation, templates and processes we used when making Java mobile games. Most of the documentation is general and could be applied to any project. Though some are a number of years old, the same game design principles should apply.

Game Development Project Management

Hope some of them provide useful – if so, please share them.

Fierce Fun’ers

 

Press Release: Big Bad Quiz live on Google Play and the App Store

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For Immediate Release

Trivia just got a whole lot tougher!
It's the Big Bad Quiz hosted by the one and only Bag Man

Dublin, Ireland - 14 October 2015: Irish mobile app developer Fierce Fun have today released their trivia quiz game Big Bad Quiz on Apple and Android platforms. Big Bad Quiz is a fast, fun and furious trivia game, hosted by the quirky quiz show host The Bag Man. Bringing personality and humour to the trivia genre, the game features over 150 levels of relentless tough trivia questions.

The Bag Man challenges all trivia players to test their brain power in the Big Bad Quiz

Game Description
Big Bad Quiz is designed for TV quiz show fans. It’s a fast, fun and furious trivia game hosted by the one and only Bag Man. He is one crazy quiz master who has scoured the universe for the toughest questions ever. With topics covering sports; music; movies; history; celebs; and more - the full game features more than 150+ levels of ultra fast non-stop rounds.

With only seconds to answer each question, a brisk brain and fast fingers are needed. No waiting, no connections, no selections - players just start the game and start answering straight away. The free version contains a limited question set. For the full set of trivia questions, players have a number of in-app-purchase choices.

Full Game features:
- Fast, fun & furious trivia
- 1000’s of great questions
- More than 150 levels
- Immediate play, no selections, no connections
- Online High Score table
- 5 types of bonus points
- Correct answers provided
- B-Factor showing your personal speed & accuracy
- Online connection not needed
- Hall of Fame
- Extra lives by sharing
- Report a question or answer
- Funky soundtrack and effects

Game Details
Publisher: Fierce Fun
Platforms: IOS/Android
Genre: Quiz, Trivia
Apple App Store Page
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/big-bad-quiz/id1003825133?ls=1&mt=8
Google Play Page
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.bigbadquiz

Press Kit URL:
https://fiercefun.com/big-bad-quiz-press-kit/

Fierce Fun
Fierce Fun is a mobile game development company based in Dublin, Ireland. It specialises in viral and cross promotional game systems. In addition to original IP products, the company also provides custom game and app development services. The company is a registered Google Play and Apple App Store Developer.

 

Top 10 countries for Trivia

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So where are the world’s trivia fans located?  Here are the top 10 nations for trivia players.

1. United States
2. Germany
3.  Russia
4. France
5. United Kingdom
6. Spain
7. Brazil
8. Italy
9. Argentina
10. Mexico

According to Google Play 2015

Game Production Coordinator – WE Part Time

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The Coordinator works with a game’s production staff to ensure the timely delivery of the highest quality product possible. They are the key link between the digital marketing and production team.

– Ensure the production directory structure is followed for all projects
– Ensure key game design documents are updated each week
– Ensure QA and publishing checklist are completed for all projects
– Track and coordinate production  tasks
– Compile and send out regular reports on game production projects
– Work with the Project Manager to identify and allocate resources
– Keep the digital marketing team updated on new game assets and features
– Attend and take notes in any team production meetings

Ideal Qualifications:
Strong interest in games design and mobile app production
Good work ethic and an ability to learn quickly
3rd level qualification (business, games or marketing)
Highly organised and efficient with an excellent attention to detail
Good interpersonal and team communication skills

Terms:
Duration          3 months, part time
Days                  3/4 days per week (10 to 4)
Location          Docklands Innovation Park, East Wall, Dublin 3

Note: this is a work experience position – training will be provided. Contact us via the About Us form.

Ireland’s Fastest ISP (Internet Service Provider)

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So here we have it. A list of the top performing Internet Service Provider (ISPs) in Ireland. This list was taken from Steam, the global online gaming portal developed by Valve. It has close to 100 million users and as it hosts online games, it gives a good indication of the performance of ISPs as regards heavy download usage.

The table was compiled in September 2015 and shows the average download rates for Steam clients on the most popular Internet Service Providers, sorted by the number of bytes delivered to each network.

As it is just for gaming, obviously it is not a true measure of overall performance. However it is a useful indicator of those providers that have some serious download pipes!

 

Network Average Download Rate – Mbps
Liberty Global 39.2
HEANET HEAnet Limited,IE 24.4
MAGNET-AS Magnet Networks,IE 16.8
EIRCOM Eircom Limited,IE 11.2
VODAFONE-IRELAND-ASN Vodafone Ireland,IE 10.5
DIGIWEB-AS Digiweb Ltd.,IE 9.9
AS-BTIRE BT Communications Ireland Limited,IE 7.5
IBIS-AS Imagine Group Ltd.,IE 4.5
H3GIE Hutchison 3G Ireland Limited,IE 4.3

WebGL: The Future of Interactive Web Animation

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WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard for a low-level 2D/3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES 2.0, exposed through the HTML5 Canvas element as Document Object Model interfaces.

Ok, in plain English!. WebGL is a JavaScript library for displaying interactive 3D and 2D graphics within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins. As it uses a computer’s GPU (graphics chip) directly, it is very fast and allows for smooth animated 2D and 3D graphics.

It is supported by all the major browser vendors such as Apple (Safari), Google (Chrome), Mozilla (Firefox), Opera (Opera) and Microsoft (IE).

As animation plug-ins such as Flash, Unity and Silverlight are not supported by default in many browsers, WebGL offers a cross platform solution for online and mobile animated graphics.

Fierce Fun can produce WebGL animations optimised for all the major browsers. For more details, please contact us.

 

Big Bad Quiz goes Beta

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Big Bad Quiz is now in beta testing and will be published soon.

The Big Bad Quiz is played like a real-life quiz show, with fast-paced rounds, bonus points, and of course, our much “loved” host: the Bag Man. He will break you down with tricky questions about sports, movies, history, and everything in between.

Featuring:
– The coolest quiz host around: The Bag Man
– A large database of tough trivia questions
– Super fast rounds and levels
– High score tracker to compete with your friends
– Save points after each round, for quizzing on the go

The Big Bad Quiz is packed with plenty of tough questions that will come at you in a random assortment, meaning it’ll truly test your brain power. While playing, you will be asked questions on a mix of topics, so be ready for historical questions to mingle with questions about the latest musicians. Be warned though, you will have only a limited number of lives before the Bag Man busts you out of the game and forces you to start from scratch. Add to that the fact that you’ve only got a few seconds to answer, and you’ve got yourself a tough game. There will be no memorizing the answers either, since the questions are randomly selected each round, making the Big Bad Quiz endlessly re-playable.

The Bag Man will be challenging you every step of the way, making sure that the questions get harder with every round, and not holding back with the insults when you get some questions wrong. If you beat the Bag Man, you’ll have the chance to get some serious bonus points to boost your score. Make sure to check out the leaderboards every day to see how you and your friends stack up!