Monday, December 23, 2013

Bongo Chef - easy way to freeze the game!

Date: 12/23/2013

Bongo Chef Version 1.0

Description:

There’s an incredibly easy way to put Bongo Chef in incredibly bad shape.

That’s a sentence I’ve always wanted to write.

Anyways, there’s this game called Bongo Chef.  The game is similar to a whole host of recent fruit slicing games that seem to be all the rage.

There is a very easy to reproduce bug with Bongo Chef.  It is much easier showing the bug than it is describing it, so if you’re interested, please take a look at the screenshots below.

I’ll try to sum it up, briefly.  Basically, there’s a pause option in the lower right hand corner of the screen.  Pushing this pause option activates a menu that has a resume, restart, and home option.

It takes a little two finger dexterity, but you can very easily to get the fame to freeze with this menu partially off screen.  If you coordinate two fingers and press the pause option, as well as the area of the screen where the play option appears, the game will freeze.

I’ve gotten this bug to reproduce 12 times in a row.

I kid you not when I say that I actually did find this during regular use.

Steps to reproduce:

1.     Download and launch Bongo Chef
2.     Select “Arcade Mode”
3.     Select “60 Seconds”
4.     Select “Tap to continue”
5.     (prepare two fingers) in a bongo-playing fashion hit both the pause option in the lower left, and the general area where the resume play option appears on screen

Result:  There’s an easy way to freeze Bongo Chef – mashing the pause option and the restart game option


Expected:  Freezing Bongo Chef shouldn’t be that easy

Download and launch Bongo Chef on a Kindle Fire.

Use two fingers, and in a "horse trot" motion, toggle the pause option and the restart options at the same time...

You'll get the app frozen, the screen looks like this.

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