How To Take Advantage of Real Game Testing Jobs

Lets face it playing video games was a waste of time all while you were growing up, at least that’s what your parents told you.  But what if you could become a video game tester?  Not just any video game tester, but the highest rank of video game testers- an alpha video game tester, yeah i know it sounds cheesy but that’s the actual term for a game developer tester.  If you want to reach a high rank like this you must begin as a beta tester.  I used to think beta testing was too low of a rank, but now i changed my mind. 

As a beta game tester you will most likely work from an office/studio/garage or wherever the company has its headquarters for workers.  Sure it would be sweet to just play video games from your bed, but you probably don’t get to do that, unless your an unpaid beta game tester.  As paid, you are on a more serious note, i.e. you play video games in the studio instead of in your bed, so leave your bed at home where it belongs.

Even being a volunteer itself may not be such a bad idea, after all you might want to build up your experience (which would be better if you build it up as a paid beta game tester than a free one) to get to your ultimate job, whether it be an alpha game tester, a video game programmer, a video game designer, or video game producer.  These higher level rankings pay bigger salaries and you  will need more than a burning desire to play video games to get these positions.  And while you study (yes you will need education for these higher jobs) you can get experience as volunteer tester or better yet as a paid beta game tester.  Or you can just be a paid beta tester for games if you’re one of the people that wants to just jump right in.

So what are some of the few things you should focus on in your education life? Or what majors can you take advantage of?  Well if you’re actually going to college and want to work in video games, i’m already impressed.  Some of the majors may come in handy:

mathematics: as it relates to programming and learning the language of code that the average person may die trying to decipher it if their lives depended on it.

computer science: an obvious major in the video game industry as you will face all the major constructs on the creation of these things we call video games for lack of a better term.  Better term= intertainment in a box.

Art : as it pertains to animation and graphic design.  These skills are obviously needed in the video game world, otherwise all games would have unbelievably cheesy graphics like in the old days…

Creative Writing: hey if you got an imagination, you could probably charge for using it and end up writing a damn good story line for a video game.

Anyway, being a video game tester allows you take advantage of that opportunity by acting as tool to catapult you to the next level and into these high paying positions.  In a way, video game testing is like an apprenticeship towards a career in the field, and it allows you to express your talents to managment and make all kinds of good impressions on these people that know people.  You can show how you’re so resoruceful, and willing to dedicate the time and effort you need to in order to solve the problem and be a solution giver. 

Video game testing itself is a puzzle in itself and there are certain things you must do to really kill it and succeed.  You would need someone who already went down the path to really put you up to speed. Lucky for you, you can get the cheat codes by going here for video game tester jobs.