Game testing job

[SandEagle]

Read his stuff in P&N and you'll realize you're not dealing with a fully developed human.

why? because his ideals, beliefs, and opinions don't mirror yours?
🙄

OP, i did load testing and wrote test scripts for years. it gets tedious.

 

[Desin]

Why anyone would want to test games is beyond me. Imagine playing a broken half finished version of a game that will probably be publicly called half finished even after 10000 bugs are fixed prior to release

That section had the highest turnover rate by far when I worked in the industry. It was also filled with a bunch of lifeless, basement dwelling, and stinky neckbeards.

 

[ichy]

why? because his ideals, beliefs, and opinions don't mirror yours?
🙄

Because they're absurd. Ridiculous claims of widespread voter fraud in every race that Ron Paul loses (stop calling him Dr. Paul, his MD is irrelevant in a non-medical setting) are going to get you laughed at.

 

[Saint Nick]

Why anyone would want to test games is beyond me. Imagine playing a broken half finished version of a game that will probably be publicly called half finished even after 10000 bugs are fixed prior to release

That section had the highest turnover rate by far when I worked in the industry. It was also filled with a bunch of lifeless, basement dwelling, and stinky neckbeards.

I can't imagine a better job for them, honestly. To the OP, go for it.

 

[JJ650]

Anyway, I was asking about game testing because my mother has always said that's what I should do.

loosely translated as, " I wish you would get off your ass and stop playing games all day and find a job" 😀

I kid, but that would seem like a great wy to ruin a love for gaming.

 

[Saint Nick]

This, I was a tester on vmware way back when. Dear god it was mind numbing. I was given a task to perform that somebody else reported errors on, then I would test... retest...retest...retest. Then I would move on to the next bug that was reported. It was only when the list of bugs was gone could I possibly use the program in an attempt to break it myself.

App testing is really easy with QTP

 

[Net]

i know a girl that is a game tester.

sometimes it can be interesting. sometimes it can be boring.

here is an example scenario to test for a game console:

1. insert the cd start game
2. insert cd start game plugin one controller
3. insert cd start game plugin in two controllers
4. while game is on disconnect controller
5. play level x jump off square
6. play level x jump off square and punch

those are the boring ones. the fun times are:

play till you find a bug and record it. replay scenario to get steps exact.
its fun to see weird things happen, they start walking backwards, the arm switches with the leg, etc...

she got her degree in an unrelated field. she wants to be a computer graphic designer. it was hard to find a job so she took a job their hoping that later she could move to one of their graphic design positions.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I've never done it for a company, but I do run a MMO game server so I do lot of testing, and I can't imagine doing it every day for a company. Would get really boring. People think game testing is playing a game all day. No. I don't know how it works in the corporate game testing world, but my guess is that it's very repetitious, since you are testing specific aspects of a game by adding different scenarios every time. You may spend a week doing 1 quest over and over and over and over while keeping track of the variables you've been throwing in.

Very basic example, say there's a quest where you need to find 10 rings and bring them to an NPC.

First you test the quest itself to make sure it works. Then you test by bringing only 9 to make sure it wont accept it, then test with 10, but in the middle of the game gump that allows you to get your reward, remove the 10 and put them on the ground, then make sure it will detect that and not give you the reward. Now say there's a ring artifact, try 9 normal rings and that 1 artifact, make sure it can tell the difference and wont take that artifact. etc etc... just a simple quest can have many scenarios you have to test. Imagine a very large quest or other game aspect. In my case it's easier as I'm the one that coded it most of the time, so I have an idea of things I really need to test, while others I don't have to test as it was done before on a quest that uses the same code.

I suppose the job could be more fun than some other jobs, but just be warned it's not what people think it is.

 

[Saint Nick]

I've never done it for a company, but I do run a MMO game server so I do lot of testing, and I can't imagine doing it every day for a company. Would get really boring. People think game testing is playing a game all day. No. I don't know how it works in the corporate game testing world, but my guess is that it's very repetitious, since you are testing specific aspects of a game by adding different scenarios every time. You may spend a week doing 1 quest over and over and over and over while keeping track of the variables you've been throwing in.

Very basic example, say there's a quest where you need to find 10 rings and bring them to an NPC.

First you test the quest itself to make sure it works. Then you test by bringing only 9 to make sure it wont accept it, then test with 10, but in the middle of the game gump that allows you to get your reward, remove the 10 and put them on the ground, then make sure it will detect that and not give you the reward. Now say there's a ring artifact, try 9 normal rings and that 1 artifact, make sure it can tell the difference and wont take that artifact. etc etc... just a simple quest can have many scenarios you have to test. Imagine a very large quest or other game aspect. In my case it's easier as I'm the one that coded it most of the time, so I have an idea of things I really need to test, while others I don't have to test as it was done before on a quest that uses the same code.

I suppose the job could be more fun than some other jobs, but just be warned it's not what people think it is.

Can you imagine testing Skyrim...lol

They didn't even do a super great job, as I still find glitches here and there. Some are pretty bad and mess up the game/storyline.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

As it is. Consumers have become guinea pigs in place of testers.
Why pay idiots to test the game when you can get paid for idiots feedback?

 

[Red Squirrel]

^ hahaha so true.

"Just release it now, if there's issues we'll just put out a patch"

 

[wty]

Even boring,there must be someone to do this boring work.

 

[Q]

If you're hard up for money, you could always wiggle your little dick on webcam for the gays. They pay for that shit. I know a few straight dudes making a living off that, ballin' owning houses & driving Benz's & shit.

This post is awesome.

 

[brianmanahan]

you could tighten up the grafix!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RYbI25aGmI