How to Be a Game Tester and Make Money Doing It!
Executive Summary about How to Be a Game Tester By Anne Harvill
A fast growing type of employment, more and more people are searching for a game tester career.
The video game industry has exploding and in 2008 was worth $50 BILLION. The challenge of creating new and exciting products to meet this demand has also created a new type of job... that of a being a computer game tester.
That is...the real life experience of playing video games. How to be a game tester is relatively simple. You don't have to have experience in being a computer game tester either. Computer game testers uncover bugs that would frustrate users and hurt sales. For someone who is serious about this field, it is easy to gain testing experience and develop a game tester career.
To become a game tester you will need to fill out an application with a company which gives them an idea of your game experience. The guides that are available provide a list of companies that have positions open.It is possible to just work for one company and test whatever new games they have when they are developed. The average computer game tester made almost $40,000 in 2008.
How to Become a Video Game Tester
Executive Summary about How to Become a Video Game Tester By Dr Kingsley Modozie
Video game testing is one of the lucrative ways to earn money part time working as a video game tester. Functions of a video game tester
The role of a video game tester is to detect bugs, art glitches and other various bugs made at the various stages of game production. Video game testing is necessary for the quality control section of video production. Game designers believe that if the games go into the market without taking time to check for errors, bugs and glitches at all levels of the game production, it may not sell out. So if you are a game player and you want to make some money testing video games, you are qualified for a beta game testing. After doing beta game testing for couple of months, it would be easy for you to upgrade to fulltime game testing for that company.
How do you present yourself as a professional video game player?
The salary of a video game tester normally ranges from $6 to $150 per hour depending on the number of hours you spend testing video games. Process of Applying
It's not easy to get a video game testing job but it's possible. If you have a friend that works in a game designing company, you could ask him to connect you to a game testing job. There are websites online that post video game testing opportunities more often in their database.