Board Thread:New on My Singing Monsters Wiki/@comment-24972506-20141211203334/@comment-24577221-20141216012010

I filed a bug report with BBB. The "conversation" went like this...

Me: MSM version 1.3.0 worked pretty well in the BlueStacks Android emulator, but v. 1.3.1 crashes immediately during boot-up. My first guess is that the problem involves the game trying unsuccessfully to connect to a microphone and/or camera.

Version 1.3.1 does work in the Andy Android emulator, so I've still been able to access my game. I haven't bought a Recording Studio yet; I think that might be tempting fate.

BBB support:  Unfortunately the BlueStacks platform is not an authorized or supported platform of My Singing Monsters. We cannot troubleshoot any issues with the game as well due to this.

My apologies for the inconvenience.

Me: It also fails in several other Android emulators.

You might consider that this implies that your code could stand some additional checks for failure conditions in general. But this is a relatively well-defined problem: something that changed between those two software versions. And BlueStacks is the most popular means for people using Windows to play the Android version of the game, which leads to increased revenue for you.

Just pointing it out.

Not a promising dialogue, I'm afraid.

As for the webcam... well, we'll see. I hope it helps. My monitor has a built-in camera, and that doesn't seem to be enough to satisfy MSM in BlueStacks. BS is supposed to support cameras and microphones. I've been trying to get Skype to work, to test the video and sound support, and that doesn't seem to work either. That might be an approach for you to experiment -- try other apps that can reasonably be expected to work, to find out if the failure is likely to be  in MSM or in BS.