Timeline for Getting Foot in the Door - Game Tester?
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| Mar 6, 2012 at 18:27 | comment | added | Skarik | @Joseph Haha, no problem, I completely understand! | |
| Mar 1, 2012 at 0:53 | comment | added | Joseph Harvey | @ Skarik Thanks for that. I wouldn't normally nitpick something so small, but there's a widely-held and inaccurate impression that "people working in the games industry don't have real jobs," and another widely-held and inaccurate impression that "software QA guys are wannabe developers who didn't have the skills," and I tend to be a bit of a worry-wort. | |
| Feb 29, 2012 at 8:02 | comment | added | Skarik | @Joseph Rephrased accordingly, sorry for the confusion. As I said in the original post, certain relevant skills are of course required in game-audio sound designer positions as "audio debugging and glitch finding" often appears on job-listings. | |
| Feb 29, 2012 at 7:48 | history | edited | Skarik | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Replaced "this" with "a passion for gaming" to avoid confusion.
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| Feb 29, 2012 at 7:38 | history | edited | Skarik | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 29, 2012 at 7:37 | comment | added | Skarik | @Joseph Erg, sorry, I meant "Having a passion for gaming" isn't a skill, sorry if it sounded differently. Of course QA is a skill! I personally work in broadcast video and audio QA so I'd be insulting myself too if I said otherwise! | |
| Feb 29, 2012 at 4:11 | comment | added | Joseph Harvey | @ Skarik As a software QA technician, I find your claim that quality assurance is not a skill quite offensive. There are many skills involved in QA, and many people have built their careers on their mastery of them. However, I suspect that what you actually meant by "not a skill" was "not a skill very relevant to landing a job in game audio development." Still, it'd be nice if you could rephrase what you said in a way that isn't dismissive of a whole professional field | |
| Feb 28, 2012 at 19:02 | history | answered | Skarik | CC BY-SA 3.0 |