Earn money playing games

Become a Game Tester Large video game companies employ video game testers, whose job it is to test games in development and report problems they find. Game-testing has been referred to as “play testing” and been glamorized in the past, and it’s easy to picture a life of playing unreleased video games before anyone else gets to, only occasionally encountering bugs that you’ll need to report. In fact, testing video games isn’t all its cracked up to be. Job security is poor, and the pay is often barely above minimum wage. Game testers don’t necessary get to test games they enjoy, and may often end up testing a kids’ game they hate. The actual experience can be made up of performing tedious, repetitive tasks, and running into a large amount of bugs that must be written up. One game tester recounts that he’s seen people quit gaming entirely after their experience in game testing. Like other people in the video game industry, game testers often find themselves working overtime for extended periods in “crunch time” – one tester reported working 92 hours one week. Check out IGN’s The Tough Life of a Games Tester for more information on what game testing is actually like, straight from actual game testers. This information is rare, since game testers sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). Record Let’s Play Videos Do you play lots of games? You can record Let’s Play videos, put them up on YouTube, and enable monetization to get some money when people watch your videos. It’s not quite as simple as it sounds – YouTube’s help pages informs us that: Video game content may be monetized if the associated step-by-step commentary is strictly tied to the live action being shown and provides instructional or educational value. Videos simply showing a user playing a video game or the use of software for extended periods of time may not be accepted for monetization. You’ll have to provide running commentary over your entire video, not just record a video of yourself silently playing a game. It’s also not a road to riches, as competition is tough and each individual view isn’t worth very much alone. You’ll need a lot of views to make a decent amount of money.