For many people, becoming a games tester is the ultimate job, and is their dream from the time they play their first video game.
Working in the video games industry is a lot of fun, but most of the required jobs these days are either for artists (the number of artists required for every new game keeps increasing as the standard of graphics improves) or for coders (to become a coder you must have extensive knowledge of programming languages, and must have a lot of experience).
The only other option is gaming testing, which is actually not as hard to get a job in as many people think.
So what does being a games tester actually mean? What must you do? Well, when a new program is made (in this case, a video game) it is rarely made without any bugs, or without needing any tweaks to be made.
The programmers hand over the gaming testing responsibilities to the testers, and either ask them to test the game and suggest improvements in key areas or to look for bugs (in other words, you must try and crash the game).
If and when you find any bugs or suggestible improvements to the game, you must report them back to the programmers, who will filter through all of the information and take action on it.
Because the amount of games in production is at an all time high, and the fact that there are four major competing game platforms (PC, Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii), the need for video game testers is higher than ever.
Working in the video games industry is a lot of fun, but most of the required jobs these days are either for artists (the number of artists required for every new game keeps increasing as the standard of graphics improves) or for coders (to become a coder you must have extensive knowledge of programming languages, and must have a lot of experience).
The only other option is gaming testing, which is actually not as hard to get a job in as many people think.
So what does being a games tester actually mean? What must you do? Well, when a new program is made (in this case, a video game) it is rarely made without any bugs, or without needing any tweaks to be made.
The programmers hand over the gaming testing responsibilities to the testers, and either ask them to test the game and suggest improvements in key areas or to look for bugs (in other words, you must try and crash the game).
If and when you find any bugs or suggestible improvements to the game, you must report them back to the programmers, who will filter through all of the information and take action on it.
Because the amount of games in production is at an all time high, and the fact that there are four major competing game platforms (PC, Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii), the need for video game testers is higher than ever.