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Game Development vocabulary · Production, QA & Playtesting

Crash

Meaning in game development, with examples

/kræʃ/nounCore term

In game development, crash means: A serious failure in which the game suddenly stops working and closes or freezes, usually losing the player's unsaved progress.

In Turkish: çökme, crash

How it is used

Also a verb: the game crashes to desktop (CTD). Crashes are usually top priority. Teams read crash logs and crash reports, and track the crash rate after launch.

Example sentences

  1. The crash only happens on older graphics cards when you load a save.

  2. Our crash rate dropped by half after the first patch.

Common collocations

  • crash to desktop
  • crash log
  • crash report
  • crash rate
  • fix a crash
  • bugA mistake in the game that makes it behave in a way it should not, such as a crash, a character falling through the floor or a quest that cannot be finished.
  • QAShort for quality assurance: testing a game to find, document and check bugs before and after release, and also the team that does this work.
  • steps to reproduceThe exact list of actions in a bug report that someone else can follow to make the same bug happen again, so developers can see it and fix it.
  • patchAn update released for a game after launch that fixes bugs, improves performance, changes balance or adds small features.

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