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Test Unlocking Achievements and Leaderboard Scores

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QAing Time!

Let’s get to testing! This is the moment we cross our fingers, make another coffee, and hold our breath.

1. First, go to the Game Centre App on your device and LOG OUT if you are logged in on a non-sandbox user account. Don’t worry about logging in at this stage.

2. Build!

3. Wait……

4. Ensure the build to your device is successful and running

5. All going well, Game Centre would’ve automatically opened a log-in screen. Use one of your Sandbox Test User accounts that you set up earlier (nothing else will work).

6. Once logged in, check that you can see all available achievements for your App, as entered into iTunes Connect. So go ahead and click on your Game Centre Button now.

7. The game centre screen should open up. Your leaderboard will be empty at this stage. Click on the Achievements tab to ensure you can see all achievements. If you can’t, return to iTunes Connect and double check that your Bundle ID precisely matches what you have in your code.

8. If you can see all achievements, then congrats! That’s the first successful test.

9. Now click on the button you assigned to post a score to the Achievement board. Do that now.

10. Return to the Game Centre screen button and click to see if your score got posted. If not, again, check that your Leaderboard name in code matches what you submitted in iTunes Connect.

11. Final test… click on the Achievement button you set up. The Achievement Banner should appear on the top of the screen to signify the achievement has been unlocked. If not, rewind back again and check that your Achievement IDs in your code matches the Achievement IDs you submitted  iTunes Connect.

12. If the banner appears, return to the Game Centre screen one last time to make sure that the appropriate Achievement now appears as ‘unlocked’.

13. Now go back and click that VERY SAME button you used to unlock this achievement, and click again. The Achievement Banner should NOT appear. If it does… hm… contact us?

 

The End!

So that’s it! You have Achievements unlocking and scores posting to your Leaderboard! We hope this walkthrough has helped you, and please let us know if you think we’ve missed a step, or something doesn’t work for you – we’ll do our best to assist. And if you have improved methods, be sure to share!

Good luck to all of you for great App success!

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