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Tales From The Trenches: Testing a non-game 27 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
I was a linguistic QA tester for 2 years, testing localized versions of games from triple A to shovelware. Long hours, bad pay, but on the whole it was a blast. There was this one project, though, th...
Comic: Riches 27 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
New Comic: Riches
Tales From The Trenches: Landing the dream job? 22 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
All my young life I had told my parents that I was one day going to make my living playing video games. Little did anyone know, one day would be quite sooner than expected. My mom befriended a recept...
Comic: Spreadsheet 22 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
New Comic: Spreadsheet
Comic: Amelioration 20 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
New Comic: Amelioration
Tales From The Trenches: Next Gen Pants 20 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
While working on a title for a large publisher, we frequently had meetings with their “creative” producers to ensure the quality of our game’s appearance. Most of these meetings resulted in overhauli...
Comic: Passover 15 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
New Comic: Passover
Tales From The Trenches: The inefficiency, she is fierce. 15 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
The first time I tried out for a QA job was for a large publisher handling several different titles at once. The QA floor had different sections for each game, but rather than give each tester a compu...
Tales From The Trenches: We Were Here For Nothing 13 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
We were testing an MMORPG built on the engine of an existing MMORPG and had the usual experience of doing the same quests over and over again and submitting reports for the tiniest of things. We’d get...
Comic: Quandary 13 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
New Comic: Quandary
