{"id":15022,"date":"2020-05-26T05:46:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T05:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.7generationgames.com\/game_design\/?page_id=15022"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:01:53","slug":"lesson-testing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.7generationgames.com\/game_design\/lesson-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"2. Game Tester is a Job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Your mom is right about most things, but not this<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re like a lot of people, your mom may have gotten tired of you playing games and not cleaning your room or doing your homework. She might have yelled at you,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;No one is going to pay you to play video games when you grow up, you know!&#8221;<\/p>\n<cite>&#8211; Moms everywhere<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Actually, game tester IS a job<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s the good news. The bad news is it is not a super high-paying job. Also, you usually don&#8217;t get to just play a game until you win and that&#8217;s it. Often, you play the same game over and over. Sometimes, you&#8217;ll be expected to get answers wrong on purpose or lose a level, to test if what is supposed to happen really happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A tester&#8217;s main responsibility to report bugs. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We use a system called bugzilla. Here is the link. You&#8217;ll need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevengenerationgames.com\/7genbugs\/index.cgi\">https:\/\/sevengenerationgames.com\/7genbugs\/index.cgi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a game tester, you&#8217;ll be given a username and password to file your bugs. Your supervisor\/teacher will give you a username and password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll be given the password in the second lesson of this course. If you did not get it, email support@7generationgames.com or use  the contact form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The more specific the bug, the better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7generationgames.com\/game_design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/avatar_secret_agent.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15050 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.7generationgames.com\/game_design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/avatar_secret_agent.png 190w, https:\/\/www.7generationgames.com\/game_design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/avatar_secret_agent-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Your mission is &#8230;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.growingmath.org\/games-for-growing-math\/\">Play at least 2 games you can find here.<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>NOTE!! All of the web games should be free.  If you try to download a game from the App Store or Google Play and it asks you to pay, please email info@7generationgames.com or mention it to your instructor, because that should not happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">File a bug report on at least one of them. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wait ! Need more information!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1tr8J2k6Dq7xhRm7wn9fFkK1jkQmlaaqCzSjpw-S4_nc\/edit?usp=sharing\">You can find more information on bug reporting here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SCREENSHOTS HELP!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can learn how to take a screenshot on all kinds of different devices <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SxEeOesHV7U\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For the presentation on &#8220;Bugs and Enhancements,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.7generationgames.com\/game_design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Testing.pdf\">you can get it here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More the visual type? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wEauog-w0-M\">Watch a short video on bug reports.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.7generationgames.com\/game_design\/3-becoming-a-designer\/\">Go to Level 3<\/a> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.7generationgames.com\/game_design\/introduction-to-game-design\/\">Go back to Level 1<\/a> <\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your mom is right about most things, but not this If you&#8217;re like a lot of people, your mom may have gotten tired of you playing games and not cleaning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7generationgames.com\/game_design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7generationgames.com\/game_design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7generationgames.com\/game_design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7generationgames.com\/game_design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7generationgames.com\/game_design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15022"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.7generationgames.com\/game_design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15448,"href":"https:\/\/www.7generationgames.com\/game_design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15022\/revisions\/15448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7generationgames.com\/game_design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}