Operating regions

An operating region is four different states in which the game is in that a tester would tell a programmer where they have fount a bug so that the tester can locate the problem and resole it quickly.

The four different states are:

• Pre-game
• pre-game is the state in which a game is in before it has even been put in to the console or PC. 
• The different variable that could effect the game in the pre-game state would include things such as other software on the device that could be demanding and different types of hardware are a variable if it isn't good enough to run the game.
• Game start
• Games start is the state in which the game is just loading up.
• Different variables to consider in the game start state are thing such as a cut scenes, developers logos and company intros.
• In game
• In game state is when the player is playing the game.
• The different variable to consider would be things such as the game engine itself messing up and not reading code properly and also not loading models. 
• Post game
• post game is the state in which the game is being shut down
• there are different type of shutting down games such as a software shut down ad a hardware shut down. the difference between the two are that a hardware shut down is the you flick a switch and the console completely shuts down and a software shut down is when you press a button and the software that the computer or console is running tries to shut it down slowly and shut down each bit of the hardware individually.