Out of the various projects I've worked on through college, this one stood out as the most emotional, healing, and therapeutic for me. In my Junior Year, I took a class titled Art 178: Game Design Methods in which students had the opportunity to learn about the gaming pipeline and create games of our own. The story I pitched was originally titled "Stages of Grief" and it was a deeply personal project that was inspired by own experiences. This is a story about a girl who recently lost her close friend to suicide and goes through the process of mourning and loss after the death of a loved one. The game consists of 5 stages or levels, each representing one of the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In each level, it is up to the player to explore the environment to discover clues or hints on how to progress into the next room, and in the process, the player slowly learns more and more about story between the main character and her friend.