Strange bugs

[Outcast]

I have come across some strange bugs while testing my first html5 made game. I have no coding knowledge, but it seems the runtime is a bit unstable because these bugs are not the usual that happens all the time. I uploaded the game to FGL and while it runs fine for me a user reported seeing just the main screen frozen the first time he loaded up the game with game elements not placed properly (he had to reload the page to get the game working) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ic/gBNNZMA.png

(I have got this bug myself a couple of times when first loading the game, this is very serious since if you send the game to a potential publisher and it happens to them I think that could potentially sink their first impression and any deal you might make, regular players would probably also leave the game if it starts out frozen)

Also I have tested the game on my android, and while it have worked fine before, the latest builds I made is working fine when both running in mmf runtime and in browser, but when testing on android there are some serious glitches occuring. I have tried clearing cashe a couple of time and reloading but i still get the same error with the latest build. I tried to capture a screen but it was hard https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...1-06-33-18.png

Basically graphics are glitching in and out (almost like what could happen on NES in the old days). There are graphical elements replacing stuff it is not supposed to and all sorts of strange things happening. I wish I could have captured a video instead.

The game is here: http://www.varagtp.com/Html5Host/Roc...ketCheese.html

Any ideas what could cause this?

[Stephen]

I ran some tests and it seems to be fine for me in Chrome and Firefox. Perhaps a browser issue?

[Outcast]

Stephen, on PC it is very rare to get the bug but it do happen. Maybe 5% of the time. If the game do load properly the first time it is all good. The problem is the first time it loads. Did you test it on a mobile device also? The problem here is just the incosistency of the bug happening. It seems to be very random and unpredictable.

[Stephen]

I tried reloading several times and had no issues. I will try it on a few mobile devices and let you know what I find.

[Outcast]

Stephen did you empty the cache between each reload? It is a very uncommon thing though, so you may have to do it 50-100 times to get the bug once :p (The first time I got it was actually after someone else had reported the bug in the games feedback)

[Stephen]

Ok, it works fine on my android phone and tablet. I tried clearing the cache as you requested between loading on pc, and no issues like you mentioned above. However, I noticed that about 1/15 times the game would start on the "Tap the screen to start" screen instead of the title screen? o_O

[Outcast]

The bug on PC seems to happen very rarely, on mobile i got the other grapchics glitch on both my android and ios device though now :/
I just don't get why it is so random.. these seem to be more of "system bugs" that I don't think i can fix on my end?:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...1-13-57-57.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...1-13-58-26.png

I also notice when running in the iOS browser, after the preloader is done and you are in the game and press play, sometimes the preloader appears and loads again.

[Francois]

Have you posted a bug report on the bug box? You can send me the mfa directly. I do not from your screen acptures see what exactly is going wrong so you would have to go into details here.

[Outcast]

There is really no details except that if you load the game sometimes the game is "frozen" https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ic/gBNNZMA.png

This is resolved by having to reload the game again

Or the graphics glitch out like this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...1-06-33-18.png

[Sparckman]

I find the HTML5 exporter behaves a little different, i guess it's related to how html5 works.

My game was freezing up too but It was because the .Wav file i was using was just too long
and I guess it wasn't finished loading it, I'm not sure if html5 flushes media files after reloading
but I removed the wav file replaced it by a smaller size mp3 and BOOOM it worked again.

One annoying thing with not using flash is that as cool as html5 is it does seem to
behave slily different from browser to browser.