gghani

Want to hear a funny anecdote?

I remember that at the job interview, they asked me to mention my 3 favourite games and the reason why.

I said "Battlefield because it's about killing people and that's always fun"

And they hired me!!

Well, they understood that I was just joking, but I can't picture myself saying something like that in a regular job interview.

Misconceptions:

-Videogame testers DO NOT play videogames at work. It's a great place to work at, of course, but you got to work very hard and put great effort to be a good tester. There are lots of guidelines and techical requirements that first party companies demand to be compliant to.

-Truths:

"You can do it if you really want, but you must try, try and try...you succeed at last" The song says it all, only people who put the best out of theirselves at trying, get to work at something they really love.

Well, I'm not a gamedev so I'm afraid I can't answer to that.

In fact, I remember that I had to learn fast about american football rules when I had to test Madden. (remenber I'm spanish)

Yes it is, indeed. First day was like Tom Hanks job at "Big" movie. And all colleagues were awesome. However as I said before it's a hard work being a tester and you need to be detail oriented and have a depth understanding of how videogames work.