Hello from the Bugd team 
Our dynamic in-game feedback form asks players questions relevant to a specific use case e.g. a network issue has a set of questions required for reproduction that will be different to wanting feedback on a new animation. Tickets are automatically created in your project management tool (currently Trello, with Jira coming soon). The tickets include the answers to the questions, logs, screenshots plus player and system information.
Once you have integrated Bugd with your game, you can create new forms on our web app that are deployed each time a player starts the game without needing to rebuild. The customiser makes it super easy to style the form, plus you can save styles for use across various builds.
Why use our plugin?
Players want an easy way to leave feedback. When asking anyone to give feedback, a lack of structure leads to a ‘garbage in, garbage out’ scenario as in most cases, players aren’t developers and they won’t understand the information you need.
A free text box about a certain bug, will lead in a lot of instances to ‘gun broke’, however adding questions around what gun did they use, was it during reload etc will help you reproduce it much easier. Our form is dynamic so that if they selected ‘gun error’ for example, you can ask which type of gun, and give them a dropdown list of guns for them to select from making it really simple for them, and giving you a more detailed report.
Bugd uses apps to control the forms and integration with Trello (Jira soon) . What’s cool about the way we have designed this is that it gives you more flexibility, you can have an app per game version, per stage (alpha, beta etc), per platform (mobile, PC, console etc) or even per Trello board which means you can have a certain form create cards on one board and others on another board.
As developers, you want an efficient way to collect feedback. Spend your time making amazing games instead of creating tickets
Where to see more of Bugd?
Website and signup - Bugd.io
Social media - @bugdgaming on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook
Our Blog - Bugd.io/blog
Our feature List:
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Dynamic feedback form with various inputs including toggle, single line text, paragraph, dropdown and rating.
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Intuitive form builder
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Editor based UI Customiser - We’ve made it super simple to style your form
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Saves styles so you can use them across multiple projects
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Deploy new forms without a game rebuild
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Automated ticket creation
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Trello integration
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Screenshots, player, system and scene logs
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Categorisation in Trello
Roadmap for the project:
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The next update will bring Jira integration and additional field types.
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We currently have gameplay footage and custom files (save etc) in development.
Future updates include:
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Enhanced form logic e.g. fields are shown/removed based on the selection of other fields
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Live polls
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Optimisation for mobile and VR games
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Voice to text input
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Analytics
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Player updates, update all players who left a certain type of bug report or feedback
What we want your feedback on!
We’d love your feedback on the useability of the tool, what you liked, what we should improve, what features we should add. We’d also love to know how much time it’s saved you creating tickets. Alongside that, and equally as important, did your players like it and how did they use it.
Pricing
You can use Bugd completely free until September 30th, 2023, after that for one app, it will remain free. Above that, we will have a standard SaaS type pricing structure, with additional features, apps and support per tier.
Thanks for reading, we hope you like it
