Today we took a tour of another game studio: Kalypso, located in Worms. Kalypso itself is not a game development company, although they published the Tropico series developed by Limbic Entertainment. As a marketing/publishing company, Kalypso works mainly with graphic design, such as banner art, box art, as well as quality assurance testing. Our tour guide showed us around the studio, including the quality assurance labs and some of the offices, used by employees who handle finances and marketing. We also talked a little about quality assurance as a job. Contrary to what most people may believe, it can be very challenging and tedious. It involves not just playing games, but carefully examining them and trying to cause bugs to occur, as well as reporting those bugs. Quality assurance engineering/testing is generally the entry-level job for most game design graduates, and is what I hope to land as my first job in the industry, eventually working up to a UI designer/programmer, or gameplay programmer.
After Kalypso, we walked through the Jewish Cemetery.
