@Jithin, reading ur post it seems, its all about experienced persons.
What about freshers? Doesn't the gaming industry need fresher?
If yes, how do they recruit? campus or online adv. ?
I don't think any gaming industry in India goes for campus
Do they go abroad?
What about testers scope in ur field?
Which all kind of testing u guys carry out?
Do u use any tools for that?
See, that's the point most of people mis-understand, what i mean by experience is not working in a BRAND company. Game Industry needs good resources that can make impossible entertainment software, whether fresher or experience.
For a Game Development company FRESHER means -> No Industrial Experience, NOT, no game development experience. And Game Development experience is not Industrial experience ONLY! It can be hobbyist too, thats how you prove your passion for game development.
That's the part you need to prove with your portfolio and demo skills.
Freshers do get a break! Gameloft Pune had a campus recruitment 3 years back, you may ask some of the older people from gameloft pune (currently Ubisoft Pune). Hope it answers for the question of whether freshers or not, to be precise, its a YES for freshers who have game development experience.
Do they go abroad? I didn't get you. For service based companies they PROVIDE services outside the country and for that they go on-site, but if the game is developed here why to go outside? Come on? If you are that caliber you may be send, like for training and stuffs like that, yes we did have a couple like that. This question seems to be more like a, you know, " I want to earn DOLLARS!" attitude, well, if you have proven skills you will hired anywhere around the globe. But you need to have the SKILLS that are really required and usually cross country recruitment skill set is pretty HIGH!
On testing, its pure old fashioned manual white box testing, because each game is different and it can't be generalized. So the testers get the design doc and they start from 1 to n, make sure all the rules are in place and no text is wrong grammatically or out of box, multiplayer is good with extreme intense and stress tests too, thats a HELL of a job. It's not at all easy to be a tester, patience and very good communication is a MUST!
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Thanks for that quote, it from the upcoming exhibition in Bangalore this Feb, hopefully I will be there. Very true, there aren't skilled people in India much to expand it, nor does the people try to improve it too. SO these kind of meetups can motivate and share ideas which can, you know, motivate and educate people more.
I don't think so, someone just tried to spread the news!
