How to customize your AWS BugBust player profile - AWS BugBust
Customizing your player avatar in AWS BugBustCustomizing your player nickname in the AWS BugBust player portalAdding authorized email addresses in the AWS BugBust player portal

How to customize your AWS BugBust player profile

When you join the AWS BugBust game, you can customize your player profile to reflect your personal persona.

Note

In the AWS BugBust player portal, a player is referred to as a BugBuster.

The following procedures assume you've signed into the AWS BugBust player portal.

You can customize your AWS BugBust player profile by:

Customizing your player avatar in AWS BugBust

You can update and change your default avatar at any time. Player avatars are not required to be globally unique.

To customize your player avatar in AWS BugBust

  1. Open the AWS BugBust player portal.

  2. Choose your Player nickname.

  3. Then, choose Your profile.

  4. Hover over your current avatar and choose Customize your avatar.

  5. On the avatar customization page, update the avatar traits that you want to change.

  6. Choose Save changes when you are finished.

If you delete your account, any avatar customizations you made are lost.

Customizing your player nickname in the AWS BugBust player portal

You can update your player nickname at any time.

Player nicknames must be globally unique. Nicknames have fewer than 24 characters and can contain a mixture of characters, symbols, and numbers.

To customize your player nickname in AWS BugBust

  1. Open the AWS BugBust player portal.

  2. Choose your Player nickname.

  3. Then choose Your account.

  4. Under Your account, choose Change nickname.

  5. On the Change your nickname modal, update your nickname.

  6. Next, choose Save nickname to save your changes.

If you delete your account, any changes made to your nickname are lost.

Adding authorized email addresses in the AWS BugBust player portal

Authorized email addresses are used in AWS BugBust events to score points. Points are scored based on pull requests created on GitHub for AWS BugBust Bugs. To collect points, you must link any email addresses you use on GitHub prior to submitting a pull request.

If you check in a bug without first linking your email address, contact your AWS BugBust administrator for next steps.

If you delete your account, any authorized email addresses you have added are deleted.

Important

If the email you use for the commit that creates the pull request to submit a bug fix is not added as an authorized email in your AWS BugBust player portal, you cannot score points. To learn how to add additional authorized email addresses, see Adding authorized email addresses in the AWS BugBust player portal

To add an authorized email address to your AWS BugBust account

  1. Open the AWS BugBust player portal.

  2. Choose your Player nickname.

  3. Choose Your account.

  4. Under Authorized emails, add your email address in the Add an authorized email address field.

  5. Choose Verify.

  6. In your email, you receive an alphanumeric code. Enter that code into the Your secret code field.

  7. Choose Verify and authorize.

AWS BugBust events use authorized email addresses to award points. You score points based on pull requests created on GitHub for AWS BugBust bugs. To collect points, you must link any email addresses you use on GitHub prior to submitting a pull request.

If you check in a bug without first linking your email address, contact your AWS BugBust administrator for next steps.

If you delete your account, any authorized email addresses you have added are deleted.