Ever wanted to work for SE?Follow

woot, im game for something like that... =P

Bilingual Japanese/English. Business level Japanese(speaking) is necessary.
-nope

2 or 3 years working experience in a game,software or mobile company is required.
-nada

Knowledge of Japanese/American pop culture.
-nil

Prior game industry experience preferred.
-uh, i play games?

Computer literate, specifically MS Word, Excel, and Access. PC skills in Japanese OS.
-ooh, i have that!... oh wait, not the last part.

Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.
-my autobiography will be titled, "tact is for fuc[/b]king pus[b]sies"

Must have a strong interest in producing video games and the video game market.
-negative

i live somewhat near bellevue, though! please give me a job, SE! actually, anyone. anyone give me a job.

Macho LOL


No thanks Haggan, I like to play the game not police it!

sure. four hour commute ain't that bad. :p

Edited, Tue Nov 2 14:52:58 2004 by mchao

Hmm.... I wonder if there are jobs where you get to rate video games or play them before they come out yet? If so.... anyone know of how to get in on that?

Don't take the Chocobo Pimp offers unless you like having freaky sex all day and getting paid for it, I mean who would.

Yes on both. For rating games, you'd look at one of the major game review sites (Gamespot, IGN, etc.), or one of the major gaming magazines (CGM, CGW, GamePro, etc.). For playing games before they come out, there's Beta Testing games. Best bet for this is looking on the major game producer sites.

However, before you get all excited, these jobs are not all fun and games. For game rating, you have to play ALL of the games that you are assigned, not just the ones you want to rate. That includes the terrible ones. So for every Final Fantasy X you have to play (and make decent progress in), you'll have a Superman 64 type game to play as well.

Beta Testing is a little different. You'll be testing an unfinished product. (And in the case of a PC game, you'll be testing it on crap systems so you can get system requirements.) That means there will be tons of bugs, your saves might get deleted quite often, and quite often you will be working very long hours.

Tell me about it, I playtest for Ubisoft Montreal from time to time, and I got the "privilege"to playtest Myst 4 in pre-alpha stage.....

Ugh...

2d graphics and some weird sprites in a game based on graphics, 100 hours of headache fun! But it was cool, albeit confusing sometimes because some visual clues had not been implemented yet ^^

Wow, this post was brought up from the depths of last November.