- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I currently work as a game tester at THQ in Southern California. When I first got the job, it was an experience that I had no idea was coming. When people say that testing games is more work than people usually think it is, they aren't lying. In fact, the people who normally think that being a video game tester is easy are usually the people who have never actually held a testing position before. Currently I am doing overtime on a new game, and that means 10-12 hours a day seven days a week. The same game for that long can get harsh for even the most hardcore gamer. Yet as outlined by this weeks news column about testing, as rigorous as testing can become, the mainstays are usually the harcore gamers that wouldn't want it any other way. Im happy with my job. I work with great, like-minded individuals, and at the end of the day, I play video games for a living. I know I won't be doing this forever, but for right now, it is better than anything else I think I could be doing, and it is definitely better than anything else I have ever done before. I recommend trying for a testing postion with any of the many developers and publishers out there in the world. It will weed out the faint and the lazy, and what is left in the end is a family-like environment of cool people with a common love, gaming.