The play makers: ‘A game can have thousands of bugs, and we have to find them’
How did you get into games testing?
I was a footballer, then I went in to the building trade - for my sins - and spent a few years carrying bricks up and down ladders. I was really into games and had this sense of what makes people tick when they're playing them. Then somebody said to me, "You know there's a games company in Guildford you can test games for." That company was Bullfrog. I went there in 1994 to do two weeks' work experience.
And took to it immediately?
I did. Now I've been doing it 22 years. I wasn't academic, I didn't go to school much or have any qualifications. I knew how to switch a PC on; that was about it. But I had a passion for games, I was outspoken and good with people. It's funny, because I took those people skills from the building trade.
