Back in 1940, Chevrolet released a management training video called “Hired.” You can view the second half at the beginning of the “Manos: The Hands of Fate” episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, or you can watch the entire video over that the Internet Archive. If you are having problems getting your testers to perform, …
As Michael Russell notes on Rom’s Rants, I’m looking for both guest and regular writers. If you or anyone you know has any information regarding this case, please, contact your local authorities. Updated: to note that the first actual guest post is up, again, much respect and many thanks to Michael Russell. I should also note that bylines …
Check out this great article from Mike Russell on trends and keeping your QA staff from cycling, now!
Michael Russel has an article in the September issue of PC Gamer (Star Siege on the cover) covering his time at Ritual. Go pick it up, only 5 bucks! While you’re reading that, you should also read the of his blog for a straight look at the life of a software developer/tester.
Michael Russel wrote up his Game QA Bill of Rights. It is pretty much exactly what we need, minus the pandering to the allowance for 10/hr goons to come in and be treated like dirt, unless they’re at least at some kind of “intern” level with somewhere besides test management to go to. Just to …
Well, what can I say, Michael is one of the few people standing up and putting a human face against the normally dehumanizing fields of game QA workers in caves everywhere. Ritual fired him and he isn’t saying why, in any case I would guess that instead of the obvious conspiracy theories that this just …
One of the blogs I link to – in fact the only other game quality assurance blog I’m aware of – has posted a fairly long (and mostly correct) rant about people who want to make a career out of game QA. This is the most correct way to think about Game QA, as a …
I’ve actually found someone writing competently about Game QA! Michael Russell also expresses interest in solving some problems I’ve noticed as well, which is good. I was worried I was the only person against massive farms of cheap late-to-the-game testers. See, the main reason why they can even get away with that is because there …