Making Money From Testing Video Games

Video game testing is an 18 billion dollar a year profession that is in high demand. So it's needless to say that there is a lot of money to be made from video game testing. I know what you are asking yourself, who is going to pay me to play games. In any industry including the video game industry there are is a thing called field research. Field research is the research that is done before something is released to ensure quality. What this means is that large video game companies need people like you that will play their games and report back any problems you had with the game. The best part about this is that you get to play these games before they are released and get paid for it!

You probably play games every day on your Xbox 360, Playstation 3, or on your Wii. Imagine if you knew about this profession 6 months ago. Lets you only played 10 hours a week (we all know that 10 hours a week is nothing) for that 6 months, the minimum a tester gets paid is $30/hour. That's a total of over $7000 you would gain if you become a game tester.

Why is this job in high demand? Well that question is very easy. Video game companies cannot afford to not have testers. The reason behind that is that if they didn't pay tester to play their games and report any bugs that they might find the company will lose a lot of money. They will lose money when the word gets out that the game is buggy, they will lose when people want their money back, and they will lose credit. Meaning that if a company releases a game that's not perfect their name will be negatively affected and making another successful video game will be incredibly hard for them.

Your parents might have told you that you are wasting your life away playing games, little do they know that you where preparing yourself for your new career. There is a lot of money to be made from becoming a game tester, the best thing about this is that this job is incredibly easy to get if you know what companies to approach and how to approach them.

If you would like some more information on how to become a video game tester.

The Evolution of Video Games

A video game is a computer game involving interaction with a user interface to make visual feedback with a video device. Platforms are the electronic systems used to play video games. Examples of these are personal computers and gaming consoles.

Early then, simple games started with low-quality graphics and sounds. These games were played on devices such as Amiga, Commodore 64, Atari, ring a bell? Later on, a lot of consoles such as Sega Megadrive, Sega Genesis, SNES bring games with better graphics 2D, in many music, colors and nice sounds. Nowadays is even better. We have very powerful consoles like Sony Playstation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and many more with very dramatic graphic 3D which look very real in millions of colors. You will definitely also enjoy the high quality of the music and sounds that make you feel that you are actually in the game.

The game controller, the input device used to manipulate video games varies between platforms. For example another feature may be a dozen or more buttons and joysticks or a dedicated console controller might consist of just one button and a joystick. The first personal computer games often need a joystick with at least one button or a gaming keyboard. There are a lot of modern computer games that allow or even require the player to use a keyboard and a mouse all at the same time.

You have to think how lucky these youngsters are nowadays, with the way modern technology has evolved.