The goal of the challenge is to invite Topcoder community members to play Binary Fission game in Verigames gaming community website.

Read more about Verigames in this page https://www.verigames.org/about-us

Challenge Task Overview

The goal of this challenge is to play the game and report any issues in the game that affect game playing.

Get Started

1. Register new account http://verigames.com/

2. Start playing Binary Fission

3. Try to complete as many levels as you can!

Playing The Game FAQ

• - How to get started : Is there an instruction ? Videos ? FAQ ? that we can share with competitors

  • - Binary Fission has an in-game tutorial that walks players through major elements of the user interface, and how to play the game.

• - What's number of tutorials in the game ?

  • - There are 6 tutorial levels in the game, which require about 5-10 minutes to complete.

• - How many levels in the game ?

  • - At present there are 12 puzzles/levels in the game, though there is the potential for more to be added in the future.

• - Do you have specific scenarios you want to share with competitors when testing the game ?

  • - None.

• - What browsers does the game support ? We will instruct competitors to use specific browsers for testing.

  • - Binary Fission works best with the Chrome browser.

• - Where can I see my progress in the game ?

  • - Inside the game you will get your score. We don't have the information in verigames.com website so we will aggregate the final results after challenge ends.

Contest Guidelines

The guidelines for this contest are given below:

• - We want you to play as many levels as possible.

• - We want you to capture screenshots of impediments to your continued play.  A bug is an obvious impediment, but seeing something that really doesn't make sense, or is really confusing, etc, is another type of impediment and we want to know about it.

• - As issues are identified they need to be logged in JIRA.

• - Issues must include clear descriptions, test cases and steps to reproduce and expected vs. actual results in order to be counted.

• - Screenshots should be included when reporting any impediment or bug.

• - First competitor to find an issue gets credit, duplicates will not be counted.

• - Reviewer will accept, reject or mark the issues as duplicate.

Bug Report Format

For each report of a limitation or bug, we need the following information:

• - Title

• - Body of the JIRA should contain the following :

  • - URL

  • - Steps to reproduce, including any needed information

  • - Screen shots (if applicable)

  • - Current results

  • - Suggested fix (if applicable)

  • - OS/Browser version

Ticket Logging

You will log your tickets here: https://apps.topcoder.com/bugs/browse/CSFV and when creating a bug you MUST select the "Binary Fission Bugs" Bugs will not be counted if a selection is not made.

Scoring

 

The Scoring guidelines followed for the contest are given below:

• Issues will be classified via points system :

  • 5 point for completing a level.

  • 4 points for valid reported functionality/impediment bug

  • 2 points for valid reported UI bug.

• - To be eligible for prize money you must complete at least 6 levels, we have $2k in prizes, each member will get prize = member collected points / total points collected by all members.

 

Final Submission Guidelines

Submission Deliverables

You will submit the following :

• - Text file contains your verigames.com username.

• - You don’t need to submit what bugs you reported, we will use your topcoder handle to find the issues you reported.

Final Submission

• - For each member, the final submission should be uploaded to the Online Review Tool.