#4
-“You make video games? Wow! That’s awesome! What do you do?”
-“I’m a tester.”
-“Wow! A tester! Lucky guy, getting to play video games all day.”
-“Actually, I just play one game every day. I’ve played it for a year now. I know every inch of every map. I know every secret, every lie that has been stitched into a universe made of empty polygons. I know how to melt down the entire network with one wrong item in my inventory. Every night, I dream of looped sound and text overruns. My wife left me after she tried to spice up our marriage and I said her dress wouldn’t fit ESRB guidelines. I sometimes wonder if I am a character in a crueler video game. A video game about testers. And the only reason I have not killed myself is because I’m afraid that in this video game, there are continues.”
-“Wow, how do you even get a job in video games?”
-“Craigslist.”
[Dorkly: 7 Reasons You Don’t Want to Work in the Video Games Industry]
