Second post for the semester! To start off, one of my biggest hurdles is the feeling of inadequacy and falling behind. Despite my biggest strength in being narrative story telling and creative writing, my capstone project relies heavily on the game design aspect along with coding. From my past courses, despite having taken a coding class, I still don’t feel as confident as I would like in my skills. Just the uncertainty, along with the fear and pressure of potentially failing is what’s making me procrastinate in my project.

However, there are a few of my peers that I’ve expressed this too. They too feel the same way and Professor Yaps words of encouragement means a lot to me as well. Hearing the different perspectives and words of encouragement means a lot to me and motivates me to move forward. Speaking of my peers, we’ve had a group study session yesterday, which felt very productive. In spite of the weather issues, we did our best to meet and met up on zoom. We all held each other accountable and continued to work on our respective projects.

As this week is almost halfway, I have written a developing note/brainstorm document that helps me flesh out the overview of some Hawaiian mythology or folklore. From this, I try to brainstorm ways of how it can loop back into my Original characters circumstance — as the whole point of the character is learning more about Hawaiian culture as they don’t have past knowledge. In addition, in the same document I am seeing which game mechanics work for these stories and how to convey it in a fun and interactive way.

My hopes is, by the end of the week, to stick with a specific story and game mechanic so that way I can start the development of the game design, by the end of the first production week. Hopefully by the next post, there’s some type of progress that is worth showing and I’ll still be meeting with Sharla and Professor Yap for their guidance and feedback.

Until then, I hope all goes well within these next two weeks. Bye for now!