Death Game Quality Assurance

De: Andrew Rowe

Narrado por: Dina Pearlman, Travis Baldree, Yoshi Amao, Andrew Call, Fiona Rene, Judy Alice Lee, Adam McArthur, Jalen Gilbert

Duración: 2 h y 19 m

Resumen del Editor

Working as a quality-assurance grunt in the gaming industry sounds like fun, right? You get to play the coolest new games before anyone else. And all you have to do is to find, reproduce, and report bugs before the last pixel is locked in and the games are launched to an eager public. Sure, there’s the unpaid overtime, the office politics, and the ever-present threat of layoffs. But you get to game!

But when a small third-party testing team is assigned to work on Blade Skill Online - a highly anticipated virtual reality MMORPG - they quickly find that some bugs are more serious than others, and some truly insidious features are "working as intended".  

If our intrepid QA team wants to survive the launch cycle, they're going to have to break this game. Hard.

©2021 Andrew Rowe (P)2022 Audible Originals, LLC.

fun, love the humor

The computer voice takes a minute to adjust to, but the actors all play/voice their part well! Fun.

short, fun distraction

great dialogue and semi-interesting characters in a geeky context. emphasis on realities of qa process detract from the story imho

Awesome book!

Really, really funny. It does require some specialized knowledge of MMO's and shows/manga/books about MMO's to get every last laugh out of it. But I bet its pretty cool even without it. The Narrative cast was great, I felt like they nailed the personalities instantly. I loved the 8 bit sound effects, and obviously I thought the story was great. It really made me think twice about a bunch of different problems with other stories that I had let my suspension of disbelief give them a pass on.

Unexpectedly entertaining

The first few minutes are jarring because of the various voice actors and sound effects, but it grows on you pretty quickly as everyone settles into their characters. The story was short, sweet, and entertaining. This is also the first story I’ve listened to that is comprised almost entirely of conversation and no physical descriptors, but it worked really well. I’d recommend this as a fun palate cleanser before your next book.

Takes storyline from ready player one

it was okay, the performance was done well but one of the main points in the story is ripped straight from ready player one. on top of this the story feels oversimplified and ripe with cliches.

Wish I could get my 2 hrs back

I think someone that is a gamer or developer may enjoy it but a complete waste of my time.
The performances were pretty good but that’s all I can say about it.

Incredible work by Rowe!

Once again, I find myself totally captivated by the characters Rowe has written! With such a short book, his skill with dialog and characterization is even more apperant.

The conversation in this book took place over a chat log and was performed by many different narrators. I've listened to books where each character is a different voice talent, and typically, they feel a bit disjointed or off. But this story completely reversed that and felt so natural! The voice actors did an incredible job in taking these characters the extra mile!

On top of that, the story itself was super incredible. There were a number of references to all kinds of pop culture, in specific things like Sword Art Online, Ready Player One, and those are just the major ones I caught! There are plenty of smaller references too, direct and indirect, that are sure to please!

But even if those are unfamiliar or not your cup of tea, this story has some really fun insights into quality assurance and game development and is generally just a lot of fun! I highly recommend it for anyone interested or looking for a light read.

And of course, check out Rowe's other amazing work! He's a great author, and the talent shown in this work is not a one-off thing! (Especially if you liked this but want some more serious moments, his other books have a great mix of levity and seriousness.)

QA at its finest

Peak QA humor. Amazing SAO parody. Amazing characters with stunning performances by an amazing cast.

Hilarious

amazing, possibly as good as How to defeat a demon king. thanks for your talent Rowe

short but a lot of good here.

it's one of the shorter books by Andrew rowe, but even so, it had me captured from word one. give it a listen. you'll thank me.