Company: Merge Games (Publisher) / Maple Powered Games (Developer)
Monster Harvest is a pixel art indie game that mixes farming sim and monster collecting. I worked on it in the publisher QA team at Merge Games, testing it on a lot of different platforms ahead of release.
What I did
- Kept long running save files going to test the farming, crafting and monster collecting loops over many in-game days.
- Wrote test plans and guides that our internal testers and external partners both used.
- Full compliance passes against every platform holder’s requirements, including next-gen consoles.
- Sent regular feedback to Maple Powered Games on bugs and on how the game felt to play.
The tricky part with a farming sim is that a lot of the problems don’t show up for hours. Balance issues, money exploits and some bugs only appear dozens of hours into a save, so those long playthroughs had to be kept going alongside everything else, with release dates coming up fast.
Tools
Jira, Confluence, and dev kits for PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo, alongside Stadia, Luna, Steam and Epic.