Beta testers, de mensen die ervoor (horen te) zorgen dat de laatste bugs bekend worden en verdwijnen uit een game. Deze lui krijgen de games toegestuurd en mogen heerlijk op bug-hunt.To help them find that kind of stuff, they get beta testers. The job of a beta tester can be boiled down to a simple directive - break the game. By playing the game for hours on end and me ing around with every setting the programmers put into it, chances are that if
there's a bug, they'll find it. Sometimes these beta testers are paid by companies like Activision to test the games they publish, or they can be volunteers picked by the developers to come into the office for a few hours to play the game to death. Some companies even release a beta version of their game to a selected portion of the public for a large-scale beta test.
So you've decided the beta testing life is for you. Now
you just need to get into it. And unlike most jobs, there's no school you go to learn it - you just have to know a lot about games. "Activision has a program called
Visioneers, which are people we use for testing at their
home, on their spare time," Matt said. "It's been
extremely succe ful and helpful to us in our proce
as we get a constant feedback from 'real people'. There
are a lot of developers offering open Betas as well, and
I was doing a lot of that before I came to Activision. The technical skills I had acquired from being a PC Tech
helped a lot!" Beta tester, gratis games en bugs