How do I become a video game tester?

Well, I guess it will be hard for you, vega83. Because game tester are asked for their vow not to told the media or even your family about the game that being made. You live in Bahrain, while most game-maker are in US, Europe and Asia. Game that being tested should be played inside the game-maker company secret chamber. But if you willing to move from Bahrain, you can just apply to the game-maker company like EA, Westwood etc. Being a game tester is not as easy as you think, because you have to finish the game as quick as possible, and you will play and re-play the same game for months. It would be a boring job. Think about it.

Games beta testing can be great fun (I have done games beta testing and other software too) but as said previous games can get rather boring after you have played them again and again and again. It's great when it is the genre of game that you like, I have tested many puzzler games, which I think are awesome...but played some flight sims and I don't like them that much. If you want to do beta testing, you may want to find out where your "local offices" of the games comapnies for your territory, and contact them...they will be able to let you know what you need to do to be a beta tester for that comapny. I wish you the best of luck and hope it goes well. Let me know how it goes!

sorry i have no idea but i would like to say if ant jobs like that in the uk going give me a shout hubbie would love to becume a game tester

Seems like a dream job, huh, vega, playing games all day and getting paid for it? While that is what most testers do, let me assure you that it's a lot tougher than you could possibly imagine. For one, you won't exactly playing the entire game, but only particular portions of it, and from a tester's point of view, and not a gamer's as you play it only to test whether it has flaws. I have a couple of friends who are testers, but they work at it full time, and they don't work online, but offline. They are in India. I really don't know of any online resources, so I can't help you there. Look before you leap is what I can tell you. Take care and God Bless!

If you ever move from whereever you live and go to colorado theres a good place called ibeta here are some points!: "From our experience, we have been able to design our testing labs for maximum efficiency and control - some of the ways we achieve this are: • All of our testers operate in close proximity to one another- this promotes communication and mutual observation of on-screen anomalies • Our computers are set up with multiple operating system/configuration capability - this allows us to test and confirm software in a wide variety of environments • Each one of our computers has been set up with multiple means of communication - we can vary ISPs, connection modalities (including T1, DSL, dial-up, and more), and communication protocols at will • We have established large groups of PCs that facilitate the automated testing process - our unique connection architecture allows for more accurate performance monitoring and analysis • Our testing labs contain multiple networks so that testing can be isolated between predetermined groups of machines • Our computers have the ability to conduct real-time packet "sniffing" analysis, either on the LAN or over the internet • Computers on a specific network are time-synchronized to allow for packet sniffing on multiple machines to be compared and analyzed with one another • Our computers have been equipped with screen capture and video capture software to allow us to graphically document "difficult" bugs • We have a wide variety of computers for testing - most computers are state-of-the-art, but we also maintain a set of computers for "low end" performance testing Because of these and other reasons, we are more efficient and we have minimal downtime between tests -we are able to increase the amount of testing we can accomplish in a day" Enjoy!

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