#11 - Rian Trost: How to Be a Video Game Tester in the Game Dev Industry

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Funsmith Fireside Chats - by Game Design Skills

Game Design Skills

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Every 2 weeks, we have a conversation with a current practitioner of the game development industry such as video game designers, producers, artists, and entrepreneurs to bring you the experience-based insights to help improve your game design and development craft and thrive in the game development industry.

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#11 - Rian Trost: How to Be a Video Game Tester in the Game Dev Industry

Funsmith Fireside Chats - by Game Design Skills

1 hour 19 minutes 10 seconds

3 years ago

#11 - Rian Trost: How to Be a Video Game Tester in the Game Dev Industry

Rian Trost is a veteran of video game QA from Sony to Blizzard, he’s helped make some of your favorite games work. If you ever wanted to build a career in testing and QA, you don’t want to miss this!

Rian Trost started his career at 19 years old testing his dream game Tribes at Sony. After finishing QA work on Star Wars Galaxies, EverQuest Online Adventures, and PlanetSide, he moved to Blizzard as a QA Lead. His years of experience offer amazing insight on what it takes to test video games, work in QA, and how to build a career with very little to start.

Rian offers great insight for anyone interested in working in QA as a tester including the expectations of a QA tester, how to excel as one, and how QA testers and designers work together. Along with some behind-the-scenes QA talk, Rian also offers his thoughts on the changing gaming industry and how to follow your passions to land the jobs you want.

Hosted by Alexander Brazie and Ariana Isbell

FULL EPISODE NOTES: https://gamedesignskills.com/podcast/episode-11-rian-trost/

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