GAME DEVELOPMENT
Modern Games are reliant on strong, stable online connections to support crucial gameplay elements.
However, players will often be connecting to congested networks of poor quality, suffering from high latency, packet loss, and bandwidth congestion.
These elements can have severe consequences on crucial game components such as Multiplayer Gameplay and in-game Marketplaces.
As a consequence, developers need to test their games against poor networks before launch.
In practice, this can be quite a difficult task.
Manually creating a controllable Test Network requires a lot of knowledge, and Configuring Exact Network Conditions is very difficult and time consuming.
This is not appropriate for the fast-paced, time-restricted environment of a modern game developer.
However, the alternative of doing nothing leaves you wide open for bugs being found by the players AFTER launch!
A quick, efficient test solution is needed…
How Ubisoft uses the NE-ONE Professional to ensure a Positive Player Experience
iTrinegy chats to Troy Germain, Network Games Tester at Future Games of London about how the iTrinegy NE-ONE Professional Network Emulator helps with the identification and resolution of network-related performance issues when testing the studio’s games.
Network Emulation- NE-ONE Solution for Testing Against Poor Networks
iTrinegy’s NE-ONE Professional and NE-ONE Enterprise Network Emulator ranges have been designed to allow teams to easily configure network types, and connection impairments, to allow Developers to see exactly how poor player networks will impact gameplay!
Configure Fully Meshed and Partially Meshed Networks!
Easily configure Client to Server, Peer to Peer, and any other meshed or partially meshed configurations your players will use within minutes, complete with accurate geographical latency and customized network impairments!
Create Multiple Experiences & Test Concurrently
Configure multiple different network experiences and test them on multiple test consoles at the same time!
Cut down the bug-fixing cycle by performing multiple tests at once!
Chain Experiences Together with the Scenario Builder
Chain different network experiences together with different transition profiles to see how transitions between network qualities impacts your game!
Give your teams a better understanding about how networks will impact gameplay, and identify bugs currently interfering with a live game!
Designed for ease of use and efficient testing, the NE-ONE Professional has been succesfully implemented in development studios across Europe and North America, adding another perspective to games testing and providing immediate results.
Read Our Case Studies and See What Our Users Think!
A lot of developers have upped their game and powered up their testing with iTrinegy- read our case studies and see what they had to say!
Why Use the NE-ONE?
Want a quick summary on why other developers are using Network Emulation? Watch a highlight reel on Why Game Testers use iTrinegy!
Useful Resources
Check out some of the guides and use cases that our gaming users have found most interesting!
Get In Touch!
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