3 month after graduation I started the first step on my career in a game studio.\u00a0 Games on IOS was popular at the time. And building a game of my own has always been a dream of mine.<\/p>\n
We had team of twelve, 5 developers and 5 artistes. CEO and the co-founder are the project managers.\u00a0 I was hired as an intern.<\/p>\n
The first week was extremely exciting. I got a Mac Pro, a dozen of different IPhones and a few IPads to play with.\u00a0 However all developers were busy. I did not receive any formal training but a list of links to official API documentations from Apple and cocos2d (the game engine we use).\u00a0 The next week I talked to the manager and asked for a project. It turned out that they were waiting for me to speak up.<\/p>\n
In the following 4 months, I was completely into all kinds of documentation and tutorials.\u00a0 Everything was new to me, Objective-c, Xcode and cocos2d. There was memory management, game engine concepts, ISO debugging and profiling as well as managing resolution between devices.\u00a0 It was indeed a big challenge and I slowly progressed day by day.<\/p>\n
There were some interesting problems to solve . One of them was to combine audio files into a single track, which turn out to be quite an difficult one working with varies compression formats and trying to sync them perfectly.\u00a0 With my limited experience there were a few money leaks which took me a long time to debug.<\/p>\n
In the end the app passed testing and was published. I remember testing with everyone in the company trying to break the app. I have to say there were some truly unique ways of using apple products and it was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, I did not succeed in negotiating a full time role which could also sponsor a visa for me. So I left and start working on the visa.<\/p>\n
What I learn from it.<\/p>\n