Game Testing Stories

[Shine]

Originally posted by Videodrone
shine, have you played urban yeti?

The first stage and I lost interest after about 20 min or so.

Urban Yeti is the shit of the gaming industry, It's like they went out and purposely tried to make this suck. I picture a group of people who believe that games are evil and will turn you into a murderer, sitting arroud thinking up newer shittier games to make, for parents to buy their kids, that will turn them off to gaming forever. And Urban Yeti was their latest "success". All I want to know is: Why in the name of fuck do you need to get a job to pay a toll? Your a goddamn Yeti! And how do you expect to keep this job if your constantly needing to accost people while cops are shooting at you? This game makes me... fuck it, it's not worth it.

[James]

From my job hunting in CA, I confirmed something I already pretty well suspected- testing isn't a career, it's something you do on the way to a career. If you're any good at all and can avoid inter-office politics you get promoted to something better. If you can't then you stay testing until you screw up or get bored.

Almost got hired at Infogrames. Why don't any game companies have a Maine branch?

James

[Lhadatt]

Because Maine is cold. And close to Canada. If other game companies start camping out close to Canada, the Bioware Horde will try to force them away via raiding parties, church burnings, dead squirrels left on the company's front steps, etc.