Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Beta Testing Video Games for a Living?



Have you ever played Video Games? World of WarCraft, BioShock, Call of Duty, Crysis are just a few of them. Well, my Brother was going crazy because all his 24 year old
son was doing was playing these video games. He had gotten out of the service and was talking about going to school but all he did do was sit in his room playing these games. It was driving my brother crazy.

Well, he stopped complaining when his son started getting paychecks for playing these games. He had become a beta tester of video games and got paid to find the little bugs in the games. This has to be done before any of the games go on sale to the public (and look how many games there are!).

Maybe this is something you would be interested in doing for fun (and get paid for it) or to supplement your income. My nephew is doing pretty good at it and has decided he wants to go into computer game design. He already has acquired a great deal of knowledge just from beta testing these games. And he has made some great contacts to help him. Check it out here.
This is how he got started.

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