Video game careers

A lot of people when think about a career they think about Business, Accounting, Computers Or more complex fields such as law or medicine which require additional years of schooling. Well, it all depends on your interest and passion but some people just pick these careers because they seems like the right thing to do, perhaps you should consider a different course of action. People should engage in a career that they will truly enjoy and you could do hours on end without feeling like you are working at all. For most people such thing does not exist but that is where Video Game careers com in the picture.

As absurd as it sounds but you actually can get a great job creating and/or playing video games. A video Game career may sound like something that will not be as rewarding as a career in medicine but that is not true in fact a career in the Video Game industry is as rewarding as a career in any other field.

List of some of the careers available in the Video Game industry:

1)    Video Game Tester

This is a position in which you truly would get paid for playing video games. According to Doug Doine, a game tester for Electronic Arts, as a game tester you would "go over different components of a game and look for things that just don't make sense." You would also "break the game," meaning you would "do things a normal user would do and inadvertently see something go wrong."

Doug Doine further adds that video game testing is a good place to start for young people who want to "break into the industry." To get such a position in it is best to have a "passion for gaming" and some educational background. Doug himself has a degree.

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2) Programmer

     According to Gameinformer Magazine, video game programmers are the "heart and soul" of the industry. They are the ones responsible for creating the code necessary for getting video games to function. And contrary to popular belief, their jobs aren't always easy. Video game programming often involves creating complex functions and algorithms often times more challenging than programs created in Corporate America. Thus, a talent for mathematics along with a more analytically-inclined brain are absolute essentials.

     Indeed, game programming may not be the appropriate course for everyone seeking a video game career, but if you were deciding to go into the computer field anyway, which job would be more enjoyable... coding the next Halo, or working on a boring, hum-drum piece of no-name software?

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