Chris Purvis was a tester of various LucasArts games.
Biography[]
Purvis was working for a software company when he found an ad for employment at LucasArts. Compared to LucasArts, his previous job was like "slavery".[1]
He works in a cubicle decorated by pictures of his wife and racing cars, and hanging models of Star Wars spaceships.[1]
His work on the short Full Throttle as lead tester was very simple, but for the longer and more complex The Dig he was more challenged, as the shortest route to complete it took 3 hours, and distributed different parts of each new version to several testers. The Dig proved more stable than other games.[1]
Trivia[]
- Purvis is interested in racing cars and Star Wars models.[1]
- Even while he plays games at work, he also plays games at home as a hobby.[1]
- Purvis considers seeing the first release of games from other companies as a job advantage.[1]
Quotes[]
- "You have to have a long attention span, an eye for detail and exceptional tolerance of monotony. It also helps to really know your computer hardware and to be able to reconfigure memory and replace sound and video cards."
- ―Purvis's description of his job[1]
- "Play every game out there. Consider it job training."
- ―Purvis's recommendation to prospective testers[1]
- "I am getting really, really tired of pizza. I just can't look at pizza anymore."
- ―Purvis on the drawbacks of his job[1]
