• A portfolio page that records what I've added to the game

• A development journal. While it's a "journal", I sort of started late, since I have only began writing this after building a basic grapple hook mechanic. I usually write these kind of journals for myself to go back into (to learn again after I forget), and for some friends whenever they wonder "why is Arthur going MIA again?

The process of making this game is meant to be stress-less, but not painless since I still want to set some deadlines for myself.

Interesting storylines mixed with engaging combats always have been what I look for in most of the games I play, and graphics is just another thing that fascinates me. BUT if I'm about to develop a game myself, those mechanics do not seem doable given that school have started and I want to develop Breakfast Bay for senior design. Stuck between the urge to create something and other responsibilities, I was troubled.

Rough time like this really had me asking myself a question that, for some reason, I've never had when developing a game: what actually makes me have fun in a game? By that I don't mean what I've mentioned previously, but just some thing simple: a mechanic that I enjoy to play with. On a bus-ride for my 9AM I got a revelation when I came across a GDC panel by the creator of A Short Hike, while his other demonstrations were great, the most that I've got out of it was an idea that maybe I could just try to make a game by expanding on a simple mechanic that I'm always excited to play with.

And the first thing that came to me was grappling hooks (yeah I want to do cooking to but I haven't had any good ideas yet). Especially the grapple mechanics in Doom Eternal. Like you can't say no to flying 200 mph around the map on a grappling chain that is tied to a shotgun...