| Since long Video games have been the most | | | | gaming zone. But there are no hard and core rules |
| amazing entertaining source for teenagers. But in | | | | and anyone having prior knowledge on gaming, |
| recent times, these have been the major source | | | | can go for this job option. Further, there are |
| of income to different age people. The question | | | | several game tester courses available where |
| comes into mind that how can these people make | | | | people can gain the basic knowledge and |
| money just by playing games? This article | | | | experience to work on design prospects of video |
| envelops the answer to the question. | | | | games. |
| Game industries are making huge money and are | | | | In the early days of computer and video games, |
| growing at a rapid rate, even faster than all other | | | | the developer was in charge of all the testing. |
| advancing industries. These companies invest | | | | Since most games were so limited in scope and |
| millions of dollars into designing and marketing their | | | | were simple to handle out, debugging was easy |
| new products. They just cannot afford to release | | | | and usually required no more than one or two |
| a poor game full of bugs and glitches. Therefore, | | | | testers. In some cases, the programmers |
| they hire people as game testers or analysts who | | | | themselves could handle all of the testing. But as |
| test their games and make them error-free. This | | | | games have become more complex, a larger pool |
| helps these companies to maintain their product | | | | of quality assessment (QA) resources is |
| quality in the market. Thus, testing game is one | | | | necessary. These being the case, most game |
| of the most vital parts of the game development | | | | designer companies have a large QA staff to bug |
| process. | | | | out the errors in their games. Some employers |
| These game tester companies usually look for | | | | offer bonuses for the number of bugs a tester |
| people having certain minimum educational | | | | finds and thus provide a source for extra income. |
| qualifications and several years of experience in | | | | |