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​Through this internship, I gained a lot of valuable knowledge, experience and skills, which can be summarized as follows:

Industrial game development pipeline and standard:

I had a deeper understanding of the real commercial game production process / pipeline and industry standards, for instance, I learned how to create game art asset from grey box to final ouput, what roles are involved in the game production, how to divide work and cooperate among different roles, and the quality of game art asstes need to achieve what kind of industrial standards in order to put into use.

Knowledge and experience of project management:

I learned some conceptual models of project management, such as waterfall model and agile model, and analysed how to optimize and improve these management models into a way suitable for current game project. At the same time, through the practice in a large game project, I have accumulated experience in game project management, and can deal with some unexpected situations in time.

How to use different project management tools:

During the internship, I learned to use a lot of platforms or tools, either in-house or external, through which I need to carry out daily project management. For example, the tracking system of managing tasks, the outsourcing system of confirming and viewing outsourcing, the Confluence of publishing documents, the project management information system of extracting data, etc. In addition, my ability to use office suite has also been greatly improved.

Communication skills:

In many cases I needed to check with various roles, so I also gained good communication skills in my work. I would like to communicate with others in a proper and polite way to get the information I need. Many game artists often came to me for help when they encountered problems, so I had to communicate with them patiently, analyse the current situation, and provide appropriate solutions. In the meeting, I also needed to actively put forward my own views and communicate with others. In addition to the oral communication skills, I also learned the written communication skills. I needed to transfer all kinds of information in the in-house communication software, and often wrote some documents for others to refer. 

Stress tolerance and multi-tasking ability: During my internship, I needed to work from 9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., sometimes even later, because there were many work contents and almost all team members left company after 9:00. At the junction of the two milestones, I needed to face the pressure of progress and help to make a good plan as soon as possible, so the working pressure is a little high. But I have been able to better adapt to work pressure through self-adjustment. In addition, project management is often faced with the need to complete multiple tasks at the same time. For example, I may need to check the progress with many people in one day, hold meetings, write documents and deal with some emergencies.

Careful observation and careful logic: In the workplace, a very important point was careful observation. For example, I needed to observe the relationship between the parties around me, or what details of the current project need more attention, so that I could really become the "lubricant" / "bridge" of the project. In addition, I also learned the new way of thinking. When I sorted out the various processes and planed the steps to be taken in the future, I needed to have careful logic. Only when I have clear brain can I become a good project manager.

Planning and time management ability: A very important ability of project manager is to make plans and produce plans for a certain period of time in the future. I often participated in the formulation of plans, rules and regulations in my work, so I feel that my planning ability has improved a lot. In addition, I also needed to manage the time to ensure that the task will be completed before the deadline and supervise all artists to complete the task within the specified time.

Adaptability to new environment: It is not easy for me to leave school and classroom, put into a new working environment and immediately establish a correct working status. Through the internship, I know how to quickly adapt to a new fast-pace working environment, how to get close to my colleagues, so that I can quickly enter a good working status.

During my internship, I also encountered some problems. For example, at the beginning of my work, I needed to learn a lot of tools and knowledge in a short time. I felt a lot of pressure for a while and felt that it is very difficult for me to finish my tasks. However, after adjusting my mind and trying many times, I gradually accumulated experience and could complete the task more efficiently; When dealing with problems in work communication, I often met people who was not willing to cooperate with me. By consulting my mentor and thinking about their psychology, I adopted the correct way of communication, and finally made them understand me and cooperate with me successfully; Sometimes, because of the complexity of acquiring knowledge, I often forgot some details. In order to solve this problem, I often reviewed and passed on the knowledge to other interns to consolidate my memory. Although the emergence of these problems has increased the difficulty of my internship, it is precisely because of these difficult challenges that I can gain a lot of valuable experience and know how to deal with all kinds of situations in my work.