How to make good money gaming. advice from a video game developer

in #gaming7 years ago

Before we get started, I want to let you know that this is not a get rich quick scam. This is a real job that you can do as a part-time job or as a career, and as you know any real job needs time, effort, and patience. Saying all that let's get started.
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For this method to work you will need to do these few steps:

  1. Promote your self. Either you play games every day or just sometimes, you should know that you as a gamer have a special relation with games that developers do not have; when a developer creates a game he always find it easy to beat even if he makes it very very very hard, and he always look at it as uncompleted; for that reason, he needs a normal client just like you to test it for him. Therefore, you have to expose your self to these developers by creating games-related content on social networks like youtube, facebook, twitter.... This content can be gameplay videos, critical and analytical videos and articles, tutorials on games, and maybe try to create your own website where you talk about games; if you have enough resources for this last step it would be a huge plus.

Remember we are not trying to make some quick money here, you are trying to create an on-going stream of income.

  1. After doing or while doing the first step above try to do this next one because they don't need to be in order. Learn more about the video games development process and some keywords related to it. Such as; what are game engines; what do modelling, sculpting, and animation software do. Try to get just some basics, and don't try to overwhelm your self with all these information because it takes time.

  2. This step is very important. When a developer wants you to test his game, he may be targeting many platforms, so if you could have at least one device of each one of his targetted platforms that would be fantastic because you will save him the time of looking for a tester for each platform.

  3. This last step is your winner card. For us indie developers when developing games, we struggle with two things; testing, and reaching an audience. If you want a developer to pick you instead of another tester, you need to give him something plus, and that thing is helping him to reach an audience, but how can you do that. Very simple, your audience; when you play video gamed on social networks, you gain so many followers, and if you offer him your followers as a potential audience, he will be forced to pick for that big plus. Of course, he will have to pay for the audience too, but you should offer good and competitive price so you get the chance to be picked as a tester.

Finally, where can you look for testing jobs? There are many platforms out there to look for testing jobs; such us;
-Fiverr.com:
-Guru.com:
Other places to look at:
-video games developers' forums
-game engines' facebook groups

CONCLUSION: as we saw you can make money by doing two things; testing games, and building audience then using it, and by combining them both, you can double your earnings.

Remember: Time, Effort, Patience.

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