Tonight on In the Vault: Michael Lattanzia, adept QA tester.<blockquote>Nobody makes games as big as ours and our testers are vital to our success. After we shipped Oblivion, many of our testers could troubleshoot and debug quest issues better than the designers could.
What is the best part about working as a tester? The worst part?
The worst part of being a tester is how repetitive it can get. Most people rarely spend more than 100 hours or so on a game, but as a tester we have to spend literally thousands of hours on the same game before it’s released. That quest that was really fun the first time through seems a lot less interesting when you’re playing it again for the 20th time.
The best part is everything else. I love getting to see the changes a game goes through over the course of the development. It’s also very entertaining seeing some of the crazy bugs that pop up along the way.</blockquote>My fondest memory of this episode is a rare <s>Sea Dogs II</s> <s>Pirates of the Caribbean</s> Sea Dogs II poster with a pirate chick holding a gun. Or at least that's what I think it is. Join us tomorrow as we cast the bones to see whether or not Michael Lattanzia has ever played the first two Fallouts and/or applies any such knowledge in his work.
Link: Inside the Vault: Michael Lattanzia
What is the best part about working as a tester? The worst part?
The worst part of being a tester is how repetitive it can get. Most people rarely spend more than 100 hours or so on a game, but as a tester we have to spend literally thousands of hours on the same game before it’s released. That quest that was really fun the first time through seems a lot less interesting when you’re playing it again for the 20th time.
The best part is everything else. I love getting to see the changes a game goes through over the course of the development. It’s also very entertaining seeing some of the crazy bugs that pop up along the way.</blockquote>My fondest memory of this episode is a rare <s>Sea Dogs II</s> <s>Pirates of the Caribbean</s> Sea Dogs II poster with a pirate chick holding a gun. Or at least that's what I think it is. Join us tomorrow as we cast the bones to see whether or not Michael Lattanzia has ever played the first two Fallouts and/or applies any such knowledge in his work.
Link: Inside the Vault: Michael Lattanzia
