Game Code That Is Not Gameplay IEEE Transactions on Games Open Problems from Industry IEEE Conference on Games 2026 Ezequiel França dos Santos ([email protected]) SDK Engineer 

Ads.ShowRewarded(); ↓ ↓ SIMPLE SURFACE ↓ ↓ COMPLEX INTEGRATION ↓ ↓ Game Code That Is Not Gameplay [1] Biørn-Hansen et al., 2019 

Telemetry Consent Missing, duplicated, or incorrect event Privacy configuration does not reach underlying propagation. SDK. Adapter SDK Upgrade Silent failures due to incompatible Unintended downstream behavioral changes. dependencies. 65 SDKs across 48,000+ Android apps Game Code That Is Not Gameplay [2] Zhang et al., USENIX Security 2024 

Can't an AI agent just fix this? → → → → 82% reported spending less time writing code work shifts toward supervision + verification Game Code That Is Not Gameplay [6] 2026 preprint 

What should the SDK hide? What must remain visible? When it breaks, can we find the right layer? MAKE THE ABSTRACTION WORK. WHEN IT DOESN'T, MAKE IT CLEAR WHY. Game Code That Is Not Gameplay [3] Mäntymäki et al., 2020 [4] Venigalla & Chimalakonda, 2021 [5] Greiler et al., 2023 

References [1] Biørn-Hansen, A., Grønli, T.-M., Ghinea, G., & Alouneh, S. (2019). An Empirical Study of Cross-Platform Mobile Development in Industry. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. Article 5743892. DOI: 10.1155/2019/5743892 [2] Zhang, Y., et al. (2024). Understanding Risks with Privacy-Configurable Mobile SDKs. 33rd USENIX Security Symposium. [3] Mäntymäki, M., Hyrynsalmi, S., & Koskenvoima, A. (2020). How Do Small and Medium-Sized Game Companies Use Analytics? An Attention-Based View of Game Analytics. Information Systems Frontiers, 22(5), 1163–1178. DOI: 10.1007/s10796-019-09913-1 [4] Venigalla, A. S. M., & Chimalakonda, S. (2021). On the Comprehension of Application Programming Interface Usability in Game Engines. Software: Practice and Experience, 51, 1728–1744. DOI: 10.1002/spe.2985 [5] Greiler, M., Storey, M.-A., & Noda, A. (2023). An Actionable Framework for Understanding and Improving Developer Experience. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 49(4), 1411–1425. DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2022.3175660 [6] The Impact of AI Coding Assistants on Software Engineering: A Longitudinal Study. (2026). Preprint. Game Code That Is Not Gameplay [email protected]