Sorry I was absent, I had some stuff to do.
oneils said:
What games did you test? Are you allowed to say?
When I worked at 2K Games I was a tester on MLB whatever year it was and Bioshock 2 and Mafia 2 and Borderlands.
At Disney I tested so many it's hard to remember but off the top of my head, Lumines 2, Hannah Montana DS, Turok, and quite a few others that are probably better left forgotten.
At Liquid I was more of a PA but my title was tester and I was there for a year leading up to the shittastic release of Rise of the Argonauts. Their quality is also showcased in that amazingly bad Thor Movie game.
TheMan said:
Care to elaborate? I think everyone would like to look behind the curtain...
Disney was just poorly managed at the time. The Manager of the lead department was kind of a dick and some of the leads alluded to him playing WoW all day long in his office. I believe he was also notorious for getting head from some female leads but who knows if that was true.
As a funny side note, I sent this to Kotaku:
http://kotaku.com/gaming/potty-time/blind-item-bad-bathroom-habits-257883.php
I almost got into trouble for sending the email but I owned up and admitted it was me and didn't get fired or anything. That was at the end of my time there when they were scraping the bottom of the barrel for testers and literally coming up with shit.
As far as Liquid was concerned, they had a guy producing who had no personality and engaging him in conversation was like talking to wall. He couldn't get any ideas out of his thick head. The associate producer was more interested in finishing his stupid short film and pretending he was Spielberg. The owner and founder Ed was a top notch guy but seemed out of touch with the process and should have been more in the trenches than he was. As far as the COO Holly, she was a vicious troll of a woman who was virtually unapproachable. I had dreams while I was there of really becoming part of a creative team and getting to engage with talented people in a cool environment, but I never was able to get that shot. I am definitely pretty jaded when it comes to them so anything I say should be taken with a grain of salt, but I realized I wasn't as into the sausage making as i thought. Oh well.
As far as this Take Two suit, I was a tester at 2K Games directly so, I'm not really sure why they'd be soliciting me, but it is pretty interesting.