Paul S. Matan Jr

Paul S Matan Jr

Baltimore MD, 21222 | 410-718-7740 | Email

 

Why I want to be a game tester? I have always been into games as I would think a lot of people are. As I got older, I started to wonder how games work the way they do. For example, to make the character jump, you hit the button and the character jumps. I wanted to know how the stuff happened as I was playing. I found an online program at Full Sail University for game design that started me on my may.

 

What is the difference between testing a game and playing a game? When someone plays a game they are playing to win/get the high score. You’re playing to have fun but when you are playing to test a game you have to slow down take your time look at everything and make sure it’s doing what it should be and if not, get it fixed. When testing you are in a way trying to break the game, looking for the spots that are causing issues and if you find them you find out why it’s doing what is doing and get it fixed. Then you test again and see if that issue/bug is fixed or needs more attention. Some bugs are an easy fix but others can take some time to figure out. Playing a game you may notice a bug but the way to find them is to go through everything nice and slow  I don’t mean slow like a snail but just slow pace making sure everything looks and works the way it should be. Also playing a game you may look at the walls and building and think this look nice but when testing you want to make sure there are no problems with how the scenery looks. You may have two walls that are overlapping (z-fighting) and it might be as simple as resizing one or both walls or it could be the way the game objects are grouped together making them move when they should not be. It all comes down to looking over everything and paying attention to the details.

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Sincerely,

Matan, Paul