Work from hometown, Various options in work style

New technology, New work style, and New challenges

Q. How did you come to Silicon Studio and how did you start your remote work?

I worked at a game development company before. I was in charge of developing in-house tools and libraries as well as tech support for projects there. I wanted to more focus on technologies and was hungry for a new challenge. I have known about Silicon Studio since I was a student. I learned the company name and its business at CEDEC. I was sure they would allow me to try a new technical challenge. “CG is cool”. This feeling motivated me to become an engineer in the game industry. I studied CG in college. Especially, real time graphics was really challenging and fun. Game is the area you have to try if you want to master this technology. I thought that way.
Now, I am a lead engineer of the Enlighten team. I orchestrate this team and decide the direction of what to develop. I work from home in Fukuoka, which is located in the most southerly main island of Japan and distant from the Tokyo office.
I started discussing the possibility of working remotely and prepared for it before the WFH system started due to the coronavirus. My wife and I are both from the Fukuoka area, and our parents and relatives live there. When we found out that we were going to have a second baby, we thought it might be better for us to move back to our hometown. I went to talk with my boss. It was only a try for the first time, but he took it seriously for me and said “I think it is ok under such a condition”. I started consulting with people in various functions.
Devices and PC environment were not good enough in the beginning, so I experimented trials and errors. Response performance is critical in graphics. You need to have high level equipment for better productivity. I closely worked with the department in charge to discuss details and shared my idea. Now, I find little difficulties in most tasks.