There is a category of QA report that reads like it was produced by someone who has not played a game since the console it was tested on was discontinued. It catches the crashes and the obvious functional failures. It does not catch the enemy AI behavior that is technically functional and completely unacceptable to a player who knows what the behavior was supposed to do. It does not catch the difficulty curve that causes players to quit at level three, which only becomes visible if the tester is actually playing the game rather than executing a test case against a checklist. At Cobweb Games, our game testing services are run by people who play games. That distinction is not cosmetic. It determines which bugs end up in the report. We provide game functionality testing, compatibility testing, compliance testing, balance testing, localization testing, and platform certification QA across mobile, PC, console, and AR/VR. Every test is executed by specialists who understand the platform, the genre, and the player behavior the game is designed for.
The full QA stack a game needs before it ships on any platform.
Complete functional coverage: every feature, every system, every edge case the game design document specifies, and every edge case the player will find that the design document did not anticipate. Not just the happy path. The path the player takes when they try to do something the designer did not expect, and the game needs to not crash when they do it.
Cross-platform porting QA for games moving from a primary development platform to additional targets. Platform-specific rendering, input mapping, performance characteristics, and the certification requirements of the destination platform all tested against the ported build.
Hardware and software compatibility testing across the device range that the target audience actually uses. Not just the flagship device. The mid-range Android phone represents the median player in the target market. The PC with the integrated graphics card that runs at the minimum spec is still a valid customer.
Platform compliance testing against the submission requirements of the App Store, Google Play, Steam, PlayStation certification, and Xbox certification. We know what the checklist requires before the submission date. That knowledge is the difference between a first-attempt approval and a rejection that costs a launch window.
Difficulty curve, progression pacing, economy balance, and the competitive balance testing for multiplayer titles, where the meta needs to be healthy before the game ships. Balance testing is the QA discipline most studios treat as optional until the review score makes it mandatory.
Level design QA covering traversal, navigation, encounter pacing, and the environmental storytelling elements that need to work as designed. Sound design testing for audio bugs, missing triggers, and the mixing issues that studio monitor playback does not reveal because the player is using a gaming headset.
Every shipped game has bugs that the QA process did not catch. The question is whether those bugs are the game-breaking ones or the obscure edge cases that one in fifty thousand players encounters. The difference between those two outcomes is the quality of the QA process behind the build. Tell us what you are shipping and when, and we will tell you the test coverage it requires.
Mobile game testing across iOS and Android device libraries, covering the hardware fragmentation that Android actually ships on and the OS version range that iOS maintains. Performance testing at minimum spec. Battery drain testing over a full play session. Network condition testing for the mobile connectivity environments that players actually use.
PC game testing across the GPU, CPU, and RAM configurations that PC gaming actually runs on. Driver compatibility. Resolution and refresh rate combinations. Minimum, recommended, and ultra spec performance. The PC testing scope is the widest of any platform because the hardware variation is the widest of any platform.
Console game testing for PlayStation and Xbox with platform-specific certification requirements, performance targets, and the first-party guidelines that determine approval. We test against the actual certification checklist, not against what we remember the last version of it requiring.
AR and VR testing for Oculus, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, and mobile AR platforms. Frame rate testing with the understanding that dropped frames in VR have consequences that extend beyond a performance metric. Comfort and presence testing by testers who understand what simulator sickness looks like and can identify the technical causes before they become user reviews.
Technical understanding of the game's architecture informs the test coverage for systems-level bugs that surface-level testing misses.
Test plan development, tester coordination, bug triage, and accountability for what ships out of the QA process.
Timeline management, client communication, and the coordination between QA and the development team make bug fixes actually happen before the deadline.
Visual QA coverage for rendering artifacts, animation bugs, and the art-specific issues that require visual expertise to identify and document accurately.
Platform-specialized testers with the device libraries, the test execution discipline, and the bug reporting precision that makes QA output actionable rather than descriptive.
Technical art QA covering shader bugs, LOD pop, lighting artifacts, and the rendering issues that exist at the intersection of art and code.
Our Technology Expertise in 3D Character Modeling.
We submitted our mobile title for App Store review with a Cobweb QA pass behind it. First-attempt approval. We had submitted three previous titles without a professional QA pass, and none of them cleared the first review. The difference is the compliance testing. You cannot find what you do not know to look for, and Cobweb knows the checklist.
We had a PC launch window and a compressed QA timeline. Cobweb staffed a dedicated team within 48 hours of our brief and delivered a prioritized bug report within the timeline we needed to hit our launch date. The critical bugs were caught. The title launched without a major day-one patch. That outcome was not guaranteed without professional QA, and we knew it.
Our VR title had comfort issues that our internal team had not identified because we had normalized to the prototype experience. Cobweb's VR testers identified specific camera movement scenarios that caused motion discomfort and documented them with reproduction steps. We fixed the issues before launch. The headset reviews did not mention comfort. That is the QA result we needed.
Functional, compatibility, compliance, balance, localization, performance, regression, multiplayer/network, accessibility, audio, and user acceptance testing. The test plan is built to the game's specific requirements.
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