The Tencent GWB Game Awards 2021 partners with WeTest
Free Quality Assurance services now on offer for free to 10 teams
Today Tencent GWB is happy to announce that it has partnered with WeTest to expand the prize pool for the Tencent GWB Awards 2021.
For the WeTest Quality Assurance prize, WeTest will offer 10 teams one-stop game quality assurance service for the full development lifecycle of their games, from R&D through to live-ops. This is a huge opportunity for participating indie developers, and it adds to a prize pool that is tailor made to help them solve the obstacles they face.
WeTest guest judge Gunther Gong stated, “The 2021 GWB Awards are an amazing opportunity for WeTest to come into contact with and assist indie development teams from all around the world. With the indie game industry as competitive as it is, it’s more important than ever that developers consider compatibility and performance across a range of platforms, and so we thought about how we could best help participating teams. We are delighted to be a part of this event and we can’t wait to see more of the games taking part.”
The end-to-end testing solutions that WeTest.net provides involve compatibility, functional, performance, network, and security testing powered by the top 1,000 popular models which represents on average 80% of global users. With the leading technology support of WeTest.net, this will ensure participating teams are able to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and shorten lead time during the whole product lifecycle.
The prize kit offered by WeTest.net for all 10 teams includes:
- Compatibility Testing for 1 build
- Functionality Testing for 1 build
- Performance Testing Instruction by WeTest Experts for 1 build
- Security Testing for up to 6 months/game
- Application Performance Management for up to 6 months/game
- Crash Testing for up to 6 months/game
- Permanent discount for Game Quality Assurance Service
You can learn more about WeTest and the services they offer by visiting their website. As a result of this partnership, the GWB Awards 2021 Prize Pool consists of cash prizes (11 titles), Intel hardware for every winning team (11 titles), Full Quality Assurance services (10 titles), $2000 Cloud Credit to best multiplayer game (1 title), free demo booths at a Chinese game industry event (2 titles),free promotion on GWB and partner channels, 1-on-1 mentorship sessions with industry experts and free localization (one title).
In order to take part in the awards, developers and publishers should go to visit the awards webpage and submit information about their game, as well as a playable build. The submission period will be open from March 22nd until June 30th and the entire participation process takes place online, with no attendance necessary.
For more information, teams should go to https://gwb.tencent.com/awards2021. For the latest news about the GWB Game Awards, as well as other GWB events and activities, teams should also make sure to follow the Tencent GWB Twitter (@TencentGWB) and Facebook accounts (https://www.facebook.com/TencentGWB).
