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PlaytestCloud | Berlin, Germany | Full Time | Visa Support | Remote or Onsite, you decide | Mobile Software Engineer - Flutter (f/m/d) | www.playtestcloud.com

Founded in 2014, PlaytestCloud helps game studios create games that players love! We help studios to reduce churn and drop-out rates while improving user-experience and player satisfaction. By doing so, real players can shape the mobile games of tomorrow. Our product has been used by more than 45 of the top 100 grossing games currently in the Apple App Store. Of the game studios that make these top 100 games, 60% are PlaytestCloud customers - which makes us an undeniable leader in mobile games user research.

We’re a diverse team of 39 employees, working in 9 countries and representing 18 different nationalities, and we’re seeking a Mobile Software Engineer - Flutter (f/m/d) to join us across a variety of projects and areas of expertise.

At PlaytestCloud, you’ll have the opportunity to make a direct impact by bringing exciting new features to market. Tasks that you work on include developing new functionality for the PlaytestCloud web application (using Flutter - you will be mainly working on this), writing platform-specific extensions for iOS and Android to support advanced functionality, implementing user interfaces based on mock-ups from our UI/UX designer, and making architecture and design decisions of your own.

Apply directly at https://playtestcloud.breezy.hr/p/96e1fdb2e6e0-mobile-softwa... or send your resume to sarah@playtestcloud.com

PlaytestCloud | Tech Lead Ruby on Rails (f/m/d) | Berlin, Germany | Full Time | Visa Support | Remote or Onsite, you decide | www.playtestcloud.com

Founded in 2014, PlaytestCloud helps game studios create games that players love! We help studios to reduce churn and drop-out rates while improving user-experience and player satisfaction. By doing so, real players can shape the mobile games of tomorrow. Our product has been used by more than 45 of the top 100 grossing games currently in the Apple App Store. Of the game studios that make these top 100 games, 60% are PlaytestCloud customers - which makes us an undeniable leader in mobile games user research.

We're a diverse team of 38 employees, working in 9 countries and representing 18 different nationalities, and we're seeking a Tech Lead Ruby on Rails (f/m/d) to join us across a variety of projects and areas of expertise.

At PlaytestCloud, you'll act as the principal engineer, be the primary technical contact person for product management, and lead the software design and development of new features. You will have the opportunity to make a direct impact by bringing exciting new features to market. You will act as the technical lead, working closely with a team of 10 people in our product department. Not being a people manager, you’ll have a great balance between hands-on coding and understanding how to translate business requirements into tech specs.

Apply directly at https://playtestcloud.breezy.hr/p/6f96c70c6be2-tech-lead-rub... or send your resume to talent@playtestcloud.com

PlaytestCloud | Berlin, Germany | Full Time | VISA | REMOTE or ONSITE, you decide | Full Stack Engineer (f/m/d) | www.playtestcloud.com

Founded in 2014, PlaytestCloud helps game studios create games that players love! We help studios to reduce churn and drop-out rates while improving user-experience and player satisfaction. By doing so, real players can shape the mobile games of tomorrow. Our product has been used by more than 45 of the top 100 grossing games currently in the Apple App Store. Of the game studios that make these top 100 games, 60% are PlaytestCloud customers - which makes us an undeniable leader in mobile games user research.

We're a diverse team of 35 employees representing 16 different nationalities, and we're seeking a Full Stack Engineer (f/m/d) to join us across a variety of projects and areas of expertise.

At PlaytestCloud, you'll have the opportunity to make a direct impact by bringing exciting new features to market. Tasks that you work on include developing new functionality for the PlaytestCloud platform’s web application backend and frontend (using Ruby on Rails and Angular), implementing user interfaces based on mock-ups from our UI/UX designer, and making architecture and design decisions of your own.

Apply directly at https://playtestcloud.breezy.hr/p/ededaee3e924-full-stack-en... or send your resume to malvica@playtestcloud.com.

We’ve recently been surprised by wrong estimates made by the planner resulting in inefficient query plans.

It seems that power law distributions over multiple tables aren’t handled very well: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65861780/is-there-a-way-...

From my experience building a company I like to believe that there’s craftsmanship involved in establishing processes (as described in Michael Gerber’s The E-Myth Revisited) that make the day-to-day run smoothly.

PlaytestCloud | Berlin, Germany | Full-time | ONSITE | Software Engineers https://playtestcloud.breezy.hr/p/77910c987e42-software-engi...

We help game studios make the best games they possibly can. Help us achieve our vision!

We are looking for a software engineer who’s curious to work with varying tech stacks, learn as they go and wants to work in a small and dynamic team.

The position will be fully remote at first due to Covid-19 but will be an on-site position in Berlin, Germany later. German language knowledge is NOT required.

Please see link above for information and how to apply.

Technologies we use: Flutter, Ruby on Rails, Objective-C, Java, and of course some bits of Python, Bash, Make, etc.

I’m one of the co-founders, please contact me if you have any questions: marvin@playtestcloud.com.

Cheers, Marvin

(PlaytestCloud co-founder)

We record the players' screens (with their permission) in iOS, Android and browser games.

We offer a free trial - would love for you to try it out and let us know what you think!

Event-driven process chain[1]. In fact, any executable process modelling language would do.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-driven_process_chain

1. A process engine that can execute a process given as an EPC (ideally with an embeddable gui editor). The app notifies the API of event completions and the API allows you to query the current state of the process.

2. An embeddable survey tool like SurveyGizmo, but completely whitelabelable, including the survey editor

3. An API for benchmark scores for iOS and Android devices (give me all devices that are as fast or faster than a Samsung Galaxy S6)

4. An embeddable private commenting tool (like Disqus, but for the back-office parts of the website)

I founded a startup called PlaytestCloud a while back to tackle this problem for mobile games. We have quite a few customers who build really basic prototypes and use our product to test that with outside players from early on. (It‘s important to test with outsiders because your friends might be too kind to you)

Are there any more modern real-time water effects out there/being researched? This basic effect has been around for a while now.

PlaytestCloud | Software Engineer (Rails) | Berlin, Potsdam | Onsite, full-time https://playtestcloud.breezy.hr/

PlaytestCloud | Software Engineer (iOS/Android) | Berlin, Potsdam | Onsite, full-time https://playtestcloud.breezy.hr/

PlaytestCloud is an online platform for game studios to let real players try out their in-development iOS, Android or browser games. We‘re using the latest technologies to make game testing as simple as possible for our customers such as Wooga, ZeptoLab and Ubisoft.

PlaytestCloud | Full Stack Engineer | Potsdam/Berlin, Germany | ONSITE

We developed a new, modern way to test how much fun new games are, using real players around the world who play on their own, unmodified mobile devices. We’re a small and profitable startup that helps game studios around the world to understand their players and make better games. Join our team of 9 and bring our mobile usability testing software to the next level.

https://www.playtestcloud.com

Email Marvin (co-founder) at jobs@playtestcloud.com

Software Engineer | PlaytestCloud | https://www.playtestcloud.com/ | Berlin Area, Germany | Full-time | Onsite

Work on a great product being used by game studios such as Ubisoft, ZeptoLab, Wooga, and many, many more. PlaytestCloud is the premier provider of user testing for game studios. We work with studios all over the world to help them make great games.

We‘re looking for a full-stack software engineer.

We work with Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, Java (Android), Objective-C/Swift (iOS), CoffeeScript, JavaScript/ECMAScript 2015, AngularJS, ReactJS, C++14, PNACL, PostgreSQL, Heroku.

Why join the team?

You have the chance to join a small but fast-growing and profitable startup. Your work will have great impact on our product from day 1. You‘ll get to work with some of the biggest names in mobile gaming on a daily basis in our nice, cozy office in Potsdam, very close to the Griebnitzsee S-Bahn station. You'll get a MacBook Pro for work and we provide free drinks, snacks and coffee in the office.

Email Marvin (co-founder) at jobs@playtestcloud.com

I'd love to get an idea of the pricing before I sign up for a trial. I don't want to spend time trying out a product that will end up costing more than I'm willing to pay for it.

PlaytestCloud - [playtestcloud.com] - Potsdam/Berlin, Germany

We're looking for a full time, on-site Community Manager / Account Manager

  * Manage game test projects
  * Maintain customer relations
  * Identify and qualify leads
  * our devs will help make your job easier

  * free coffee, drinks, beer and snacks
  * Flexible working hours
  * MacBook or iMac for work
  * see the newest unreleased video games

https://www.playtestcloud.com/jobs

Jonatan, great read. Can you already share with us what kind of business model you're thinking about?

This was recently posted on HN: http://gamemechanicexplorer.com/

I agree with randall. Tests ensure that you build your software right, as opposed to building the right software. A large test suite impedes how fast you can deliver new features.

We wrote tests for PlaytestCloud only after we acquired the first paying customers.

The tests only ensured that customer-facing routes would not crash. It was a good balance to ensure that we could move quickly while ensuring that we didn't introduce catastrophic bugs.

Lots of absolute views in this thread.

How about: If it's profitable for your site to offer a non-JS fallback, do it. If it isn't, don't.

I never understood the obsession with swear words in source code comments or 'creative' variable naming.

It's childish, and I don't think the authors themselves found it funny anymore once they got off their caffeine high.

The more code you roll yourself the higher the likelihood that you will have to fix critical bugs on a Saturday night at 1am. It will happen.

It struck me how well Carmack's ideas about running all actors in the game world in parallel map to Clojure's agents[1].

Clojure introduces a bunch of interesting ideas on how to handle parallel programming. "Perception and Action" by Stuart Halloway is a great talk to listen to if you're interested[2].

[1] http://clojure.org/agents [2] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/An-Introduction-to-Clojur...

What about maintenance? I can't believe the 10% admin fee covers that.

Is there a German cloud storage provider that I can use as a git annex remote?

I'm starting to get tired of this 'we don't need no suits' talk on HN. You need a marketing strategy, regardless of how good your game is.

Publishers have the know how and capital to devise and implement such a strategy. Don't make the mistake to assume that they are just there to take a cut of your profits without putting any value on the table.

Just use linked lists. If it turns out to be a performance problem (my guess: it won't) you can change the data structure later.

No referral link - just glad I could help ;-)

Game Coding Complete: http://www.amazon.com/Game-Coding-Complete-Fourth-ebook/dp/B...

Hi Jeff, how would better search have helped you? Are there people who actually search for certain kinds of games on the App Store?