GDC experience

            Blizzcon,E3,GDC... I have dreamed one day that I will have chance to attend these Game Conference since I was on high school. And Golden Gate Bridge is such a mysterious symbol for me until last week. A trip for GDC begin, a journey to San Francisco start.
            Here are some personal experience and judgement about this travel. 

           1 The skills that we learnt in school is still part of  knowledge for game industry. There are huge amounts of  work position offered in game industry and lots of very detailed area may obtain huge success. For instance. I found a company has built its own tools to develop tree model and animation which can be easy load into game engine and gain high efficiency. Also a company developed a small wireless connection device between mobile phone and HID family TV. So people can play mobile phone game on their TV to share happiness on family on a big screen. 
             No matter what kinds of area. Game industry full of opportunity and fortune. Because it changing people's life and bring enjoyment.
             
            2 GDC is awesome and worth to go. 
           (1)  You can meet lots of different people working as different roles for game industry.It is this chance I discover how colorful my future work would be.
          (2)  I should buy conference access tickets next year to gain more advance information about game industry. (I don't know that Expo pass do not include conference this year. I slip in two lecture and they are useful. )
         (3)  Its a good place to get job and internship. 
                 

         
          3 Figure out where you should go is more important than walking to a direction without no doubt. At least its important in game industry, which based on high technology development. What kind of game that player eager for is changing. What kinds of ways they may play is changing. What the purpose drive them to play game may changing too in near future or now.


      4 Small detail
      (1) Game industry in China and Asian is developing in dramatically speed and full of opportunity. (I prefer working on the game based on a culture which I am familiar with)
               
      (2) More and more company are going to publish their own Game Engine. Developing game based on commercial engine or company's own mature engine is future tendency.

     (3) Utah is good place to live and study compare to boisterous San Francisco. I am lucky I had made the right choice.

    (4) We can imagine how life would be hard for the old Chinese generation that came to San Francisco to pursue dream or maybe 
fortune from old photo and building on China town.

    (5) Money on big City like San Francisco is worthless even though you may get high salary on here. So I should insist where I live and work comfortable.

   (6) One famous game can make a once nameless company famous all over the world. And company can take advantage of this to expand its real or unreal fortune.