Game Alpha testers

[darkphoenix]

Hello i come with this topic for try to understand and try to make something a bout for me as a job if some one have some info or tip a bout it is realy love to know much more a bout it.

Reason a bout ask here as on outside at web pages some scam is apply for this type of informations and i m trying to get much info i can for start.

[Jonybat]

You mean game tester as an actual profession? I don't think there's such a thing nowadays, considering how easy it is to have thousands of people doing that for free with social media and gaming platforms like steam greenlight. At least not exclusively. If you really want to get into the gaming industry i think you would have to specialise in either design or programming.

You can ask Sjadey about this, because i think he works in the gamming industry.

If you mean it as an ocasional/alternative source of income then i have no idea, but it's probably not easy to find or get accepted into due to the demand.

[darkphoenix]

true i will see a bout it so

[kisoon]

i got friends who work for splash damage and ubisoft , what Jonybat says is right these days.

The last time any company really employed testers was when things like high speed broadband was not the norm, think playstation 1 era. If wipeout was released with some hideous bug in it you couldnt download a patch or fix, there was no internal storage on the ps1, you basically had to recall every sold disc, and send your customers new ones, this was expensive, so you hired testers.

Nowadays you can sell pretty mucch anything to people and having to download a few gigs of patches after sale is no big deal,  High speed BBand and storage being so cheap means you dont have to hire testers, you can actually get your customer base to test it all for free.

[Sjadelin]

Hiyas was checking this post just now and saw my name fly by :3 but yh i do not have to add to what is already been said! learn programming or modelling or even how to create storyboards to get into the gaming industry! it would also be able to either learn audiovisuals etc to get noticed as a freelancer! im still searching ppl willing to learn the basic's and you can even put it into practise what i can teach you so just head over to the S7 project section on the forum and aply in what you are intrested in to learn and i contact you as soon as possible

[darkphoenix]

at the moment i can´t do anything becouse my computer is death but when i resolve this and work i will join in full time a bout it