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Video-game abuse has become a career these days, a crucial part of the $11 billion video-game industry. Hanson is a quality-assurance tester, who plays through every conceivable video-game scenario, looking for bugs, or problems, in a program before they hit the real world. Testers report glitches--a character walking offscreen, for example--to their company's programming department, which repairs the game's computer code. Then the game goes back to the testing department for further scrutiny, and the cycle repeats, often for months, until the game is bug free. "Testers are a special breed," says...
Just one undetected bug in Golden Tee could cost the company as much as $100,000, the price of fixing the problem and sending an update from its headquarters in Arlington Heights, Ill., to game operators around the world. It's a frightening figure, Ditton says, when you consider the multitude of things that could go wrong with the programming, affecting everything from a game's 3-D images to its virtual sportscaster...
...simple rule of thumb," says John Lasseter, Pixar's creative director and the auteur of its first hits, Toy Story, A Bug's Life and Toy Story II. "The more geometric a figure is, the easier it is to do with computer animation. The more organic something is, the harder it is. Everything about a human is organic. The audience looks in the mirror every day, so if you don't get it right, it's obvious to them." The solution: comically distort the subjects' features, make 'em cartoony. As Bird says, "You want them to be caricatured and believable...
Princeton’s passing game, already hampered by a dearth of targets, won’t be the beneficiary of any favors from the injury bug this weekend, Murphy said on Wednesday...
Verdery cited adjustments to SEVIS, a notoriously bug-ridden database of international students launched in 2003, as an example of the department’s improvement. Last year 300 visa-holders were detained at airports as a result of problems with the processing of their records, he said. Only 80 have reported problems so far this year...