George asks…
What is thre process for amking a video game?
Obviously the development and beta testing and all that, but what about the rest of it? Can someone give me a detailed accound of how a game is made?
games tester answers:
First there is the idea stage. Thats when someone has the idea for the basis of a game. Then you plot an outline of the story or main components of the game usually with a storyboard or something similar, depending on the genre. Then you find or create an engine to run the game. Think of the engine as the backbone of the whole game. When you want it ot pull textures or read keystrokes etc., thats what you are pulling from… Everything else is subscripts etc to connect it together. You have to also have someone map out textures, make models/concepts etc for the graphics in the game unless its fully text-base. Then you go into putting it together from start to finish, seeing where the game stays upbeat and where it falls under and you change accordingly. This is also where you can beta test to find anything buggy. Then you compile and run!
If you want a more indepth way of making a game then go to google or something similar and look up game development process. Because thats all it is.
Mark asks…
What the heck is wrong with video games these days?
WHAT HAPPENED TO GAME TESTERS???
1. Fallout 3 has randoms freezes every couple of minutes. I don’t see how this could pass the testing process… and it seems like there doing nothing to fix it, even now, after it has been out for months they havn’t even mentioned the topic… I have even mapped the Quicksave command to my middle mouse button and every time I kill an enemy or walk 50 steps I click it just in case it freezes.
2. The Sims 3: for me the Launcher will not even open, so since I have bought it it hasn’t been updated once, and every time i search for a fix for it it leads to no answers whatsoever not even on The Sims 3′s own forum (???).
So what HAS happened to game testers? Did they all get laid off because of the bad economy or something? I don’t see how they can release a game that has so many bugs and glitches that it’s basically unplayable…
BTW, I have Fallout for the PC, but my friend has it for the Xbox and it has the some problem, just a little less frequently.
P.S. this is NOT a rant, I seriously want to know how/why these games were released so unfinished and flawed.
I’d rather wait another year and have a game I can actually play rather than buy it and then wait a year for the fixes lol. They should just make the people wait. 
Like what SuareEnix is doing with FF13.
Heh, my hardware is fine, I just spent $800 building a custom rig, AMD 3.0GHz Quad-core Processor, EVGA 1GB GPU, one of the newest/best GigaByte Mobos 4GB RAM… and all updated drivers, the game is the problem, not my hardware.
games tester answers:
Video game developers are now pushing for titles to be released before they are even ready, the two games you mentioned are perfect examples. They’re both the most recent installments in very popular franchises. When the publisher starts advertising out the butt hole(EA!), the game becomes more hyped and more pressure is applied on the developers to release the game earlier than it should.
This is happening more and more now because people want release dates, screen shots, teasers, and trailers before they are even working on the game yet. So they want these games to come out as soon as possible. Even though that Fallout 3 was a great game, it just seemed a tad rushed to me. That may be why they released 5 DLC pack, but who knows? So all in all, it’s our fault for hyping the game more than anything, that makes the games come out earlier than they should, and all the developers feel is pressure. It sucks, but hey, what are you gonna do?
Susan asks…
EMERGENCY!!!!! What is the best way to find video games tester jobs in your area?
The indoor pool im currently employed with is being remodeled and ill be out of a job for a while. I loooooooooove video games and a friend suggested i pick up a video games test job. You know, the guys who test the games, look for bugs, and compile reports of the glitches they find? I live in Atlanta, GA and did a google and bing search but to know avail. All I found was like sites that seem to be scams and stuff. Im. . .pretty desperate!!! Lol Any 1 who can contribute legitimate video games tester leads, from sites to check out to explaining the process of getting in the door would be soooooooooo very appreciated!!!!!
games tester answers:
I’d suggest this isn’t an emergency – if you can’t find anything on Google, then you’re going to have to get another pool job. In fact I’d wager good money you won’t find anything.
Besides, video games testing isn’t as glamorous as you might think. You’re not sitting there playing and enjoying the game, you’re sitting there and playing the same tiny tiny bit over and over and over and over and over (repeat ad nauseum) again and you’re not trying to complete it, you’re trying to see if you can break it.
Daniel asks…
Does this excerpt sound quaint and 1950s? My murder mystery in process?
I watched her hand waver uncertainly over the pile of Chance cards.
‘How silly people are over these games‘, I thought. ‘Can’t one just play seriously and attentively, despite the odds of losing? Really, just pick up a card…’
I, Miriam Hendling, directed my annoyance towards the excited, dithering Conroy mother about to realise her fate after suffering a near-miss from bankruptcy in the favourite game of Monopoly which so often accompanied late night parties in the mansion. We all were Monopoly players of a most advanced class. It brought a variety of Withers-on-Char residents together to satisfy their deep attraction to the board game. On this untimely night however, my brother and I, my mother and father and Mr. Gavin Bunner were the only outsiders of Cardamom Court present this evening. This was supplemented not only with the entire usual occupants of the house, but also Mary Carson the maid and even young Ginevra Thompson staying over during her school break. Naturally, the estranged Conroys also joined the game, testing their surprisingly amateur skills against the rest of the party. The somewhat pug-faced Constance Conroy, affectionately called Connie on her request and to reflect her Australian upbringing, had been invited to Cardamon Court with her equally unattractive daughter Athena on the revelation that Dianne Handlemore was her long-lost stepmother. Miss Handlemore’s elder brother Ronald Thompson, the head of Cardamom Court, insisted on this news that Connie and Athena visit their half-family in England. Several months later and almost all of the entire household detested the Conroys, even Ronald. Only Dianne respected the newcomers. The others showed their hate towards the loud, grotesque and rude Australians quite obviously. Strangely, they never seemed to notice the mire they had built around themselves. Indeed both Connie and Athena’s idea of courtesy deteriorated markedly soon after they settled in to Cardamom Court.
Now, it must not be neglected to examine what I started with: dear old Monopoly. I will now recount the series of events that involved the village of Withers-on-Char and notably Cardamom Court over the months of July-September, 1949.
Connie’s hand touched the top of the Chance pile and, grinning with the air of being someone important, she slowly lifted up a shiny red and white card. It was clear nobody was taken in by this faked suspense of hers, but several confused expressions and a sharp intake of breath were observed in our circle when Connie announced the outcome: “You have been duped. Pay £250. Game over.”
It is supposed to be set in early 1950s or late 1940s. I am trying to see if I am replicating speech/thought patterns from that era accurately
re: the Monopoly card. There is a twist there and it’s supposed to be shiny in the book, the only one in the pack. But thanks for the colour details.
Yes it is supposed to be a serious novel…for instance Cardamom Court is deliberately witty, because the mansion was founded by a hallucinating major who was mentally shellshocked in India during an offensive, and hence had eccentric tendencies such as naming the place.
As to the Australians…it is all realistic. They do add farce but in particular they end up being the anchor of the plot and the solving the mystery revolves around their ‘projected’ attitude/character.
To me it all works out..but I agree about the caricature and it is overly dramatic for what it is, a personal recollection, and I will fix this
games tester answers:
If you’re writing a comic parody, it’s fine. If you’re writing a serious novel, then no, it’s ridiculously over the top and just reads like an exaggerated caricature. You’re using a sledgehammer to crack a nut here. It’s about as subtle as a slap in the face with a wet haddock, and it’s just a bit laughable at the moment. Particularly the line about the Australians and the name ‘Cardamom Court’. Just not credible at all.
If you want to read a really good example of book written in the present day but set in the time period you’re thinking, read The Little Stranger by Sarah Walters. It is a brilliant period-piece without being over the top or exaggerated.
Also, you need to get period details right. For instance, the cards in Monopoly weren’t red and white or shiny in the 50s – not in the UK, anyway. They were matte, not shiny, and the community chest cards were pink and the chance cards were a sort of pale orange. I know this because I grew up in the 70s and 80s and our Monopoly set was my dad’s old one from late 40s or early 50s, but you could easily Google this stuff and look for a picture. You can’t write a book set in another time period or country without doing a lot – A LOT – of research, if you want it to be remotely credible.
EDIT: It wasn’t the presence of the Australians I objected to, but the way the narrator talks about them and describes others’ reactions to them. It’s way over the top. Prejudices are casual, fleeting in real life. Someone in an Agatha Christie novel might casually mention in passing that they thought Australians were brash, but ‘grotesque’? And ‘hate’? No way. More like a mild irritation, if anything, or a bemusement. Even if there was any real hate, nobody would be rude enough in that situation to show it, and nobody who was having hate openly shown to them would stick around an play Monopoly with the person openly hating them. ‘Hate’ and ‘grotesque’ are over-strong words. The whole extract needs a lot of toning down, even before addressing the other issues with your writing (sentence structure, word usage, mangled syntax).
Sandra asks…
Not sure what type of doctor I should see to begin process of getting pregnant.?
Long story short, my husband had an accident years ago and was told after the accident he would probably not be able to have children in the future. We need to go to a doctor to get his sperm count/viability tested and begin a game plan for how we are going to get pregnant. I am not sure what type of doctor (specialty) we should start with.
games tester answers:
You can ask your gynocologist to refer you to a fertility specialist.
No. That post code has a medical centre and a demolitions contractor listed. There is Plaistow Post Office a few doors away at 360, Nat. West Bank at 386 or Barclays Bank at 737.
(4) For the purposes of subsections (2) and (3), a person is a national of the United
Kingdom if the person falls to be treated as a national of the United Kingdom
for the purposes of the Community Treaties.
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I think you have misunderstood the statement. If BN(O) is treated as EU citizen by the EU, he is considered that he is ” a national of the United Kingdom”.
Therefore, BN(O) meets neither condition A nor condition B. So BN(O) is not considered at an “EEA Entrant” according to the new bill.
If BN(O) is NOT an EU citizen (according to the EU), BN(O) also do not fall into conditions A or B.
United Kingdom should because: Highlands & islands of Scotland are breathtaking landscapes!