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

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.

Very interesting concept...

Very interesting concept for what could possibly happen behind the scenes in video game testing. Also a very terrifying concept of actually getting caught in the game & facing actual death. Hard pass on ever taking this sort of job in real life 🤣

I thought having multiple narrators like this had would be bad, but it played like a real life scenario or TV drama & was actually really good!

Knowledge of online gaming is helpful

As a non-gamer there were numerous concepts I did not immediately understand. however the writer is most proficient at providing contextual clues. Great story!

Lots of fun

This was so much fun. It's the first time I've ever heard a Mobile Fighter G Gundam reference in a book. Automatic 5 stars.

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.

Q/A banter + boss kill

Great banter and conversation
So many twists and reveals
Bugs and developers not listening to Q/A