1/18/2012

A Genuine Way To Get Paid To Play Games - The Job Gamers Aren't Aware Of

By Sean T Saunders


For the many people who are serious video gamers, maybe one of the best employment that they could ever dream of will be to get paid to experiment with video games. Imagine sitting down in the comfort of your home and playing a great new video game which no one else has viewed yet and collecting a fat paycheck for doing it. While video game design organizations do hire gamers to test their latest creations there may be also work involved in the video game testing field and gamers need to have some skills in order to get paid to try out video games.

If you desire to be a video game tester and get remunerated to try out games then you need to understand what the career is all about and what your responsibilities would be. With a professional video game company your work title will be beta game tester and your tasks would include playing new games meticulously before they get put on sale to the public. You would receive from the video game company an nearly finished beta version of the newest video game and play it so that you can recognize any glitches or problems with the games configuration or content.

One ability that gaming firms need in someone who gets paid to play video games is that they really are knowledgeable and enthusiastic gamers. Other talent are needed as well. Beta game testers require a mind that is investigative and able to notice any glitches or errors in the video game that they are testing. Additionally they require to possess competent writing skills to ensure that they can make reports on the games in a lucid and concise manner. Good grammar, punctuation and spelling are required so the company that is paying can read and understand the game report.

A career as a beta game tester is a legitimate approach to get paid to play video games and is one of the only ways to enter on the ground floor of the video game industry. The first job as being a beta game tester could be hard to come by but it is worth the trouble to get employment that you will like doing. You do not require a university degree or a technical certificate to become a game tester nevertheless you will need to show some initiative in order to find that first employment of game testing.

You are not going to find game testing jobs inside the classified section of the newspaper or posted on the job board at the local unemployment office. To find a reliable job testing video games you will have to approach the businesses that design the video games directly. The challenge is knowing what organizations are employing video game testers to be able to approach them. The perfect solution for this is to become a part of a professional game testing service which may provide updated video game tester job listings and also providing information on video game designers that employ game testers.




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