✅ Liked — What I liked
Over the past week, I visited Tokyo for the first time and went to the Tokyo Game Show for the first time as well. I went with my team to the Tokyo Game Show in its 30th anniversary year. Experiencing both the B2C and B2B days was fun—not only making a product as a developer, but also introducing it to people directly.
At the show, I met users, talked with them, introduced the product to client companies, and tried sales as well. Hearing from actual users, whom I rarely get to meet while developing, gave me a more concrete view of the games industry. I also thought about what mattered to users and which direction the product could take next.
When a typhoon cancelled my flight, I unexpectedly had free time from Monday through Wednesday. I listened to a colleague who had visited Japan many times explain some of its culture and history, and I tried a range of food. Everything was new because it was my first time in Japan. The time had not been planned, but it let me properly rest. I came back feeling refreshed before the Chuseok holiday.
💡 Learned — What I learned
At the show, I saw how seriously people cared about games. If we want to get closer to this industry, we also need to genuinely like games and try to understand them sincerely. Seeing and hearing directly who uses a product and why is part of making one, too.
Explaining the product also showed me how important it is to communicate exactly what I want to say. I want to study foreign languages such as English and Japanese until I can properly convey what I am making and what I think to more people.
🧩 Lacked — What I want to look into further
If the things I saw, heard, and felt during this trip are not going to remain only a good experience, I need to think more about how to bring them into the way I make products going forward.
🌱 Longed for — What I'll try next week
Now that the trip is over, I plan to use the Chuseok holiday to sort through the things I have been rushing through, the work that has piled up, and the personal things I have been doing.
I will bring what I saw, heard, and felt during this trip into the product, and start studying English seriously again.