An important step towards getting hired for all the game testing jobs you want is to become a really a great video game tester – the star of the team, or at least co-star. Achieving that level of competency involves moving beyond the what – finding bugs – to the how. How, exactly does one [...]
Video computer games have become as much a pillar of our entertainment universe as books and movies. Why is it that so many of us are drawn to the computer monitor or TV screen like flies? A bit of history might help explain the phenomenon. Originally computers were all work and no play, being outrageously [...]
A career as a game tester is fast finding an increasing number of takers these days. If you are someone who is passionate about games and feels that you have in it to make it big in this fast emerging field, then you can take the plunge with confidence these days. This is because the [...]
Wouldn’t it be fun to be one of the online games testers, to work from home and still earn a lot, so much that you don’t need the day job anymore? Just imagine what the online game testers do all day: they wake up at let’s say 10am, get a cup of fresh coffee and [...]
In the game testing industry, things pretty much happen behind closed doors. People go in and once they got a job they start disclosing less and less and soon they feel as if that video game testing job was made for them and only for them. They soon forget just how hard it was to [...]
21st century is an era of new technologies, experiments, modifications, explorations and discoveries. In today’s world children love playing games on their computers, televisions or play stations rather than going out and playing with their friends. Technology has changed everything for man, the way we live, the way we dress, the way we eat and [...]
There won’t be a way to stop people from expressing themselves and there will be many avenues for this expression. Music, poems, and paintings are some of the more traditional. But with the advent of technology, things have taken on a more engineered level. These days, computer games are major as they become increasingly intense [...]
So, you’ve just reached level 80! Let me first congratulate you for a job well done, and to welcome you to the *real* game! Well, now that you’re here, you’ve got quite a few things to do and experience! Raiding, pvp, getting cool equipment, getting your flying mount… Wait, did you say that you don’t [...]
It has been said that visual triggers in the brain respond to programmed responses that we acquire from our every day interactions and that that is the deciding factor in our visual appreciation of art. (Csikszentmihalyi 1995). There has been a new trend for some time now in which human beings surrender themselves to simulated [...]
