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Subject: Work at Bungie! Testers!

Well I now have more respect for the testers! I don't know how true this is but the fact that the testers sometimes literally eat, drink and sleep at Bungie explains why the lights were on in some of the web cam's where they were not before.
Actually, from what I saw at Lionhead (a couple of weeks before E3 2003, where the game was being shown), most of the day is spent chatting on MSN and playing Raven Shield. Oh, and talking about the football league.

  • 07.17.2004 5:35 PM PDT
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wow.... lol.
well, i always thought teasting is finding bugs and glitches all day.... sure taking brakes, but this is what i had wished to sign up for... i had no idea they acually do this! raven shield!
i would probably not stop unless the certain occasion. i wouldnt really want to stop, because of the progress i could see made. i could stop for the occasional counter-strike, for it is a game i tested last summer and admired so for it was the only shooting game i had played for the pc. i have grown so attune to it, and want to play it so...
but i would still test what needs to be tested, i can assure you i have this responsibility.
thenagain, i call myself a short sleeper which could help. such as, going to sleep at about 5am and waking up at 9am. this occasion occured by playing halo with one of my closest friends since at least 11pm. it took him a lot more hours to wake up..... lol

  • 07.17.2004 6:38 PM PDT

Australia always gets left behind

My dream job is to become a bungie game tester but i too am only 14. but two more years and im out of school (finish grade 12) and aimming for that job. I love finding glitches. i found so many in halo its was not funny. i can finish assult on the control room without having to verse any covenant execpt a couple at the start. i could name all the others but that would take to long. anyway great post i know a little more about what it takes to become a tester and i love it.

  • 07.17.2004 8:40 PM PDT
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what i want to know how to do is to make them marines freeze in aotcr...or two betrayals...
i want to be able to freeze em, shoot em, then they blow up when i pass thru checkpoint. i havent found out how to do that yet...

  • 07.17.2004 9:50 PM PDT

Australia always gets left behind

i've freezed the marines. i did it in coop. but no one needs to know how to do that now do they now.

  • 07.17.2004 11:18 PM PDT
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Im about to finish my high school career, im going to be senior in the fall. also im turning 18 in december. I too share in the hopes of working in the video game industry. Im going to take Comp Sci classes in college, and see where it goes from there.

  • 07.18.2004 12:00 AM PDT
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!
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NIGHTMAREXIII,
GOOD LUCK AT COLLEGE!

  • 07.18.2004 12:05 AM PDT

Australia always gets left behind

yeah good luck

  • 07.18.2004 12:28 AM PDT
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AH -blam!-. I HATE THIS CELEBRATION -blam!-.

  • 07.18.2004 12:33 AM PDT
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CRAAAAAAAAP. WHAT A LOAD A F.U.C.K.

  • 07.18.2004 12:38 AM PDT
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IS ANYONE STILL HERE ?

  • 07.18.2004 12:39 AM PDT
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NEVER MIND.

  • 07.18.2004 12:40 AM PDT

Australia always gets left behind

hello

  • 07.18.2004 1:29 AM PDT
Subject: Not everything about testing was depicted properly
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Not all testers work on the early versions of titles. Granted, some poor souls do have to sit on Alpha and Beta versions of code for months, if not years, but it really depend on what department you work for.

For example, internal testers (those who work within the company making the game) will be using early versions of code, though people in quality asurance, or QA, will test what the developer/publisher deems to be shop worthy code. QAan be either third or first party, though it depends on the company making the title and the platform the title is aimed at.

Both are the same job really, though interal is more of a pain in the backside however it does leave you with better job prospects.

  • 07.18.2004 5:13 AM PDT
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All I'm asking for, is to have a job at Bungie that does not consist of being a janitor...

  • 07.18.2004 6:38 AM PDT
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hi u all

  • 07.18.2004 3:40 PM PDT
Subject: I AM a tester, and I like it.!
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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.

  • 07.18.2004 4:05 PM PDT
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Sweet ass....
I PICK BUNGIE!

  • 07.18.2004 5:08 PM PDT
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dumbass....

  • 07.18.2004 5:26 PM PDT

Australia always gets left behind

whos the bungie princess?

  • 07.18.2004 6:46 PM PDT
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well this is my senior year, and I still dont know what im gonna do when I get out of high school. being a tester sounds like the type of career I would enjoy, considering I never sleep, play halo EVERY night for atleast 3 hours, and follow that up with some R&D Magic. not to mention all the other games I rent and play for 10 hours straight on a daily basis... lol if anyone even see's this (I'm interested!) ^_^ heh just figured i'd post this here.

(I think I need to get a life,eh?)

  • 07.18.2004 10:27 PM PDT