QA Q&A

SCOTTY LODGE of Hyper Luminal Games shines a light on the QA process

- Luke Kemp

Dundee-based Hyper Luminal has an interesting business model. It develops games, but also offers QA services to other companies (clients have included Sumo Digital and Disney). Scotty, as development manager, looks after the QA team. Before entering the game industry, he had a very different - but curiously related - job.

Growing up in the Highlands, there wasn't much of a tech industry around him. "I did what most people do around my parts, and entered the oil and gas industry," says Scotty. In foreshadowing of his future role, he was a quality controller. He would test pipes that came in, ensuring that they were suitable to pass on to the welders. A solid job, but not one that satisfied his passion for games.

"I quit my job, moved hundreds of miles down the country to Dundee, and pursued a college course, doing animation and digital art. I cut my teeth in the industry working at Outplay." After almost two years there he went on to the much larger Build A Rocket Boy (founded by Leslie Benzies, formerly of Rockstar), and then to Hyper Luminal Games. Today, he's settled in as an important part of the HLG team, and he's perfectly placed to answer a question regarding a poorly understood subject: what does the QA team do?