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To the publisher, PowerUp Games™is a tool for success in four areas: Marketing, Customer Support, Customer Understanding and Quality Assurance or Game Testing.  We have organized a Crowd of Video Game Testers so you can have a Crowdsource solution for Quality Assurance, Testing, Marketing, Customer Support, stress testing, performance testing or evaluation or whatever else you may need a Crowd.

How could you use PowerUp Games Services™?

1) You are a couple of weeks from release and want to build awareness about your title. Run a final pass of your title to expose our students to your title and look for any last minute issues that need to be addressed.  Value Marketing.

2) Right before you ship, pass your title by a few students to gather issues to train your support staff or to be included in help or readme file.  Cut your support costs.

3) During Development, you want to know what your customer likes about the title or how much they think it is worth or what areas they like the most. You want to do a A vs B test.  Survey our students to refine your marketing and better understand your customer.

4) You can enlist a large or small army of students to look for issues with your title as you build it. Get usability feedback, bug reports, and other information to improve your title. Stress your server to see if you are ready for release and success. Are you having problems support a large range of devices? Use our Students to help reassure you in that area at any time you may need it.

5) You have people reporting errors that you cannot reproduce.  You use the crowd to gather data to narrow down the issue and finally kill it.

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How can I use PowerUp Games™ to make a better game?

Use PowerUp Games for Cost reduction, QA & Game Testing, Tech Support, build a loyal following, get a different opinion, forecast success, focus on fun, and Compare your product to your competition...  What else can you think of?

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What services does PowerUp Games™ offer?

We have an army of students that want experience in the games industry. They have a variety of hardware and devices, come from different backgrounds an experiences all being trained to be game testers. If you had this community, how could you use them?

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Why should I use PowerUp Games™ to augment my own titles quality?

At PowerUp Games we can easily help integrate our services into your current QA or Testing processes. We can work with your QA group or an outsource group to provide small group or large group feedback on your title. Have our students scour your product for issues, see if you have the wide range support you need, evaluate your product for fun, device support, connectivity or other potential issues.

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How can PowerUp Games™ help my marketing efforts?

We have a survey tools with standard Question and Answer type to quickly facilitate the asking of and answering of questions. Develop a survey to forecast the success of your title.

Expose our community to your product and your competition. Use survey(s) to find the strengths and weaknesses of your title and the competition. Market to your strengths.

Expose our community to your product before it is released. Your marketing budget is tight but you need to gain as much exposure as possible. Right before your launch, release your title to our community for exposure and a final Quality bar that says you are ready to ship.

Build a loyal following. As people help you produce a better product, you get buy-in. They will tell their friends, they will play it with their friends(because of the extra practice, they will be able to beat their friends most of the time), Give them something to brag about with their peers.

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How can PowerUp Games™ help me get closer to my customers?

Ask questions get answers. Ask them to contribute to your success. Build a following.  Build a loyal community before you ship.

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How do I get my project available to the community?

Publishers can add projects to our community by going to our publisher's home page and creating an account. Once your account is set up you will be able to add project criteria for selection of community members. These members will be offered the opportunity to help with your project. Once the project start criteria is met, the project begins.

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How do I sign up with PowerUp Games™?

Go to the publisher section of the site and submit your email address to sign up. An employee of PowerUP games will send you an email with the URL to sign up. Fill it out, you are ready to begin.

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What does it Cost?

We will save you money.  Some services are free.  Pricing is based on the number of students needed and the time or duration you need them and the type of project we are supporting. Please call or email with your particular need so we can give you an estimate. For the majority of our customers, they are surprised by the value they receive for each dollar spent. Most fees are a hundred to a couple thousand dollars. 

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