October 26, 2010 — Video Game Tester Tagged Video Game Tester, video game testing
A video game tester is a member of a development team who performs game testing.
Video game testing jobs is now getting more and more popular and sought after career nowadays. For those who are asking what a video game testing job is or what is the task being handled and performed by the video game tester him/herself, read more below for further information.
Game testing, a subset of game development, is a software testing process for quality control of video games.Video game tester main task is the discovery and documentation of game bugs or defects. Some people may find it an easy task and some may not thus making them to undergo some kind of training.
Some time ago, the developer was in charge of all the video game testing. No more than one or two testers were required due to the limited scope of the games. Thus making it hard for them to develop more games because they are also in charge into further testing.
As games become more complex, a larger pool of QA resources, called “Quality Assessment” or “Quality Assurance” is necessary. Most publishers employ a large QA staff for testing various games from different developers. Despite the large QA infrastructure most publishers have, many developers retain a small group of testers to provide on-the-spot QA.
Video Game Tester Compensation
Game testing personal are usually paid hourly (around US$10–12 an hour). Testing management is usually more lucrative, and requires experience and college education. An annual survey found that testers earn an average of $39k annually.
Testers with less than three years experience earn an average of US$25k while testers with over three years experience earn US$43k. Testing leads, with over six years experience, earn on an average of US$71k a year.
Some employers offer bonuses for the number of bugs found.
October 22, 2010 — Pumpkin Carving Patterns Tagged Halloween, pumpkin carvings, pumpkin patterns, pumpkin stencils, pumpkin templates
As we all know, Halloween is here. The Halloween spirit is felt and people are getting more and more excited about their Halloween 2010 experience.
If there is Halloween, then there will be pumpkins everywhere. There are number of sites that do offer free pumpkin carving patterns and templates that you can download online. This patterns and templates are such a big help in terms of having your very own pumpkin designs.
Nowadays, having a good pumpkin carvings is such a good idea. There are some contests being hold to judge the best Halloween pumpkin carving templates. On the past few years, I can say that the best seller pumpkin carving design is the NFL Teams pumpkin carving patterns. They just created a huge buzz around the world wide web and anyone who encounter such Halloween patterns are amazed and haven’t resisted to download and carve their very own NFL inspired pumpkins.
To sum it all up, pumpkins and Halloween just really go together. Without free pumpkin carving templates, it can be somewhat a bit hard for Halloween people to carve their own designs and masterpieces.
October 7, 2010 — Dress Up Games Tagged computer games, Dress Up Games, entertainment, games, online games
Dressing up for fun and excitement is the new thing today. Lots of teenagers do it. They are known as cosplayers or dress up games players. For those who still don’t know this cosplay thing, then let me define it for you.
Cosplay short for “costume play“, is a type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Characters are often drawn from popular fiction in Japan. Favorite sources include manga, anime, tokusatsu, comic books, graphic novels, video games and fantasy movies.
Then here goes online games. Developer and webmaster of dress up games online wants to uplift their gaming technology. So they introduced this kind or category of game. the cosplay dress up games online.
In this way, players or the users themselves, can dress their cosplay character with anything they want. They can use it as their basis for their next costume or simply to put out a brand new unique character and design out there.
That’s it for now, more of this online dress up games post and article coming up soon. It may take a while for me to research and compile few things about it but I promise you, the next post about this topic will be next to awesomeness.
