how do i get money by playing games

I'm guessing that you mean just what you say -- you want people to pay you to play games.

Two major routes occur to me, depending on what sort of career path you're looking for.

1) Become top-rated in tournaments, or on a Twitch or YouTube channel. You'll need to do research into how players monetize by this method, and it takes a lot of work, but people who are good at it can do well money-wise.

2) If you're looking for a career working in the game development business, the people who are paid to play games are in the QA department. QA stands for Quality Assurance. Their jobs are to find and report on bugs and problems in the games. This may sound like fun -- getting paid to play games all day -- but it's specific and technical . You must be detail-oriented and very good at recording the exact steps that cause a bug to occur. You play the same parts of the game over and over following a specific plan, having to do specific actions. QA is an important part of game development, but the pay is not great. It's a way to earn a living, but you won't get rich at it.

> You can try to go for Game tester profile which will pay you to test games.

> Playing game competitions and winning that will give you a lot of money.