Like to know how to become Game tester/ designer

[Azure Panda]

I'm looking for an area where I could get these jobs perferiably close to a University. Next year is my Junior year and its getting close to rush time on carreers and Universities.

[hawthorneluke]

what, anywhere in the world?

[S1lentOp]

lol... Everyone wants to be a "game tester." Why not? Getting payed to play video games and then giving feedback. As for game designer, that's going to take talent. Try any major city in the country like New York or LA. Of course, you could also go to the game designer's websites and look at their addresses.....

[Azure Panda]

Well any where in the world. hmmm. preferably in the U.S or Japan may even consider the U.K. Hm.. well the three things I have looked into is voice actor, game designer and game tester. Well I dont have a hard time finding a place just one where its close to a university.

[Jamull]

i remember reading an interview of a person who was a game tester. It was a full time job...9-5 m-f. you don't get to choose the game you want to test (especially if you are new) and all you do is play that game 40 hours a week for at the very least a month. Also keep in mind that the games you'd be testing aren't going to be the Kingdom Hearts, Halo, etc. They'll be the Barbie, Ponies, and Lizzy Maquire crap that should never have been made into a videogame in the first place. And you get to play the version that's full of bugs--bugs that you have to find by doing all the things not expected by normal play (like jumping over something while pressing different combinations of buttons to produce an error). sounds horrible to me lol

[ShinoBee]

http://www.sloperama.com/advice.html

This site explains about the business of game designing and other game-related job topics.

[Rekcah]

Take my advice, work hard, become a programmer. So much more rewarding.

[Marioshinobi]

In your dreams =D

[silabus]

if you want do it

[hawthorneluke]

In your dreams =D

not really...
its not like impossible
i'm well on the way to having a career in the gaming industry.
been making tiny games for some years, going to uni next year to do games programming, with a year placement, work shadowed at a software dev company (boring lol), got the best score last year out of my school for some big, but not very well known and harder than hell computing exam, learning japanese and going to japan, which opens up more options. etc
of course there are ways, just like any other job.

lol... Everyone wants to be a "game tester." Why not? Getting payed to play video games and then giving feedback. As for game designer, that's going to take talent. Try any major city in the country like New York or LA. Of course, you could also go to the game designer's websites and look at their addresses.....

actually i can assume and have heard a lot about testing games as a job soon turning into hell lol, for obvious reasons of probably playing the same crap from some crap game over and over and over


i only know about the UK (as thats where i live), and a lot of unis do one year placements in the industry or something close, at least on those sort of courses, which would help of course, but i dont know much else :/
if you could seriously go to and do well at a uni in japan, then that'd be awesome xD

[Kiru]

Already have some knowledge of it. Once i finish Highschool i'm going to IAOD, a game design school in Toronto.