| How To Gain Experience? | | | | manufacturers game. It would be rather difficult |
| There are several ways to gain the experience | | | | at best to play a Gamecube game if all you own |
| you will need as you embark into your video | | | | is a Playstation. |
| game tester career. One of the ways is to | | | | You Can Believe It |
| become a great tester before you even fill out an | | | | Believe it or not, Game developers will always |
| application for the position of game beta tester. | | | | need those in search of a video game tester |
| Just start paying attention to some of the more | | | | career, they will never place ads to this effect |
| technical aspects of a game while you're playing it, | | | | though. They know that eventually, the testers |
| pay attention to any glitches or bugs you seem | | | | are going to come to them, they get enough |
| to run across and exactly where you find them in | | | | applications just by word of mouth advertising. |
| a game. Granted, most of the bugs have been | | | | The ideal candidate has to be highly detail |
| worked out of most games before they are | | | | oriented, dedicated to his job, efficient, and also |
| ever released to the retail market, but, you will | | | | be able to effectively communicate any issues of |
| still find some on occasion. Begin to keep a log | | | | their games he is testing to the project lead |
| while playing games, this will slowly evolve you | | | | & development team. |
| into the type of mind set necessary for a video | | | | Most but not all projects involve testing on |
| game tester career. A more detailed and technical | | | | various multiple devices & carriers, and will |
| aspect while playing games. | | | | require maintaining bug and glitch reports in a |
| Backbone Of The Company | | | | highly detailed manner. |
| One of the lower positions at a gaming company | | | | What Will I Be Doing? Is This A Growth Industry? |
| is the tester. But, generally speaking, so are you | | | | The main gist of the job will be in analyzing video |
| the backbone of the company. These game | | | | games so that software defects can be |
| tester employees are referred to as video | | | | cataloged and documented and then passed on to |
| analysis employees. This being an actual video | | | | the development team for maintaining quality |
| game job. Video game testers are extremely | | | | control in the actual end product (the game itself). |
| critical in the game production and development | | | | To begin with your video game tester career, |
| industry. Video game testers generally work with | | | | you will want to familiarize yourself with an |
| or in close proximity to the actual game | | | | assortment of various video games, different |
| developers. Always make them aware that you | | | | game consoles, as well as PC software. It has |
| are more than a gamer, let them know that | | | | been estimated that over $21 billion dollars in |
| you're highly passionate about trouble shooting | | | | games and gaming equipment were purchased in |
| and improving the playability of a game and that | | | | the U.S. alone in 2009. Up over $3 billion dollars in |
| you're a team player. This can only help you in | | | | 2008. You can see that this is definitely a growth |
| your promotional scalability at this company. | | | | industry and you being interested in a video game |
| Necessary Requirements | | | | tester career is a smart move in an obvious |
| Generally, the only requirements necessary to | | | | growth industry. To find the best available |
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| career is in having or obtaining the Gaming | | | | keep reading below... |
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