Date: 01/09/2014
Description:
By accident, I found a very easy way to crash the app GameDev Story on the Kindle Fire. Game Dev Story is an interesting idea for a game, and I recommend downloading it to try
it out.
I actually found this bug while trying to reproduce a bug I
encountered the very first time I started a new game.
This bug is much easier to show than it is to describe, so
please see the attached screenshots.
Here’s the crash in a nutshell: You are given the option at the start of the
game to name your new game development company.
If you name your company with ten blank spaces (ten presses of the
spacebar) the game will crash shortly after it begins.
I’ve gotten this crash to reproduce ten times out of ten
attempts.
If you start a game with a company name of ten blank spaces,
the default UI that greets the user at the start of the game disappears. If you tap the screen an error message
appears that says “An error has occurred.”
Selecting “OK” out of this error message kicks the user out
of the game.
Steps to reproduce:
1.
Download and launch Game Dev Story
2.
Select “New Game”
3.
From the “Company Name” pop-up, delete “Sunny Studios”
4.
As a company name, enter in ten presses of the
spacebar (ten blank spaces)
5.
With ten blank spaces entered as a company name,
press “Confirm”
6.
Once the new game has begun, tap the screen
Result: The app Game
Dev Story will crash into an error message if the user starts a new game by
naming their new video game studio with ten presses of the spacebar (ten empty
spaces)
Expected: The app
Game Dev Story should not crash into an error message if the user starts a new
game by naming their new video game studio with ten presses of the spacebar
(ten empty spaces)
