This was my first time collaborating on a game with a group of more than 20 people. So being given the opportunity to lead a team of that size was both exciting and intimidating. Though I absolutely loved working on this project, it was a pleasure to work alongside and get to know unfamiliar faces and I found the new challenges that this project brought before me extremely engaging.

As a project lead, one of the greatest struggles that I encountered was in creating a strong balance between refining work and knowing when to move forward to meet deadlines. An example of this centered around one particular background image for the games final cutscene. This cutscene is the climactic finale of the project, and we all wanted it to look as good as possible. For a period, this led to us fixating on details and revisions that proved to be unnecessary. Thankfully, through communicating with the team, we realized that it was time to move on. Later, as we reached the projects final milestone, we were extremely thankful that we chose to finalize that piece when we did. If we had not done so at that time, other critical elements of the final cutscene would have been neglected and suffered as a result.

I am extremely proud of the ending result, and am blown away with what the art team was able to accomplish. This experience proved to be a great reminder that I should always keep the timeline of a project in mind. Also to always communicate with the team, to ensure that they are happy and feel like the project is moving forward.