Alright, so the experts are telling us that we’re in this big bad economy, and the recession and everyone is going to lose their job and go to hell after they burn alive. Part of that is true, many people are definitely losing their jobs because of the economy, but a fewer select group is also losing their job due to excessive video game playing.
Is this you? Do you have soar thumbs and fingers? Did the blisters in your fingers, make you to handicapped to do your job as a telemarketer? Pushing buttons can be tough with them blisters. And after you asked for some unemployment money they wouldn’t give it to you and fired you instead? Sounds like a nightmare?
Wrong! this is the best thing that could of happened to you because you hated that job anyway. Now you can work at a job as beta tester of video games that you will be hating a lot less. You can test video games for a living, just plug and play. You won’t know when you’re working and when you’re playing, you’ll work overtime and get paid more without knowing it. These are some of the benefits of getting beta testing jobs. In your face economy!
So what will you be doing as a game tester? Well you will be doing all kinds of game testing. Here are some of they cool testing words some people like to use: localization testing, soak testing, and adhoc testing.
1. localization is supposed to be about fixing up and checking on the game’s commentary and the way the langugage is put together and if the translation was done right and all that nonsense.
2.soak testing is something pretty weird is when you just pause the game or run the game and leave it pretty much alone and see if something happens by itself. (paranormal activity)
3. And adhoc testing is when you run like a crazy man on crack inside the video game and try to break it and mess it up just by playing. Yes, this is what gets you paid my friend.
On to what else you need: Serious game tester edge, a kind of morbid curiousity that is just begging to be satisfied by playing a video game again and again, and again. You may have long assignments and you will need some type of motivation to keep you going, otherwise you will fail and you’ll never meet your father and fight him with a light saber. yeah that’s right.
So to get them beta testing jobs be sure to start as soon as possibly and get some experience under your belt, so you can build up to more and more profitable assignments. Remember, big game developing companies don’t want to be horribly embarrased by thrashy video games that freeze everytime you pause them and that’s why they need you, if you want it.
You can get a great guide for beta testing jobs here.
