Every few years I dabble back into game design, but busy adult life always gets in the way. For about a year now I've been wanting to slip back in and make a Metroidvania style game around Amaiya.

I've explored and discovered myself through an obscene amount of drawing and art commissions, which is a large part of why all my uploads have personal stories attached to them, and I think this is going to be the new route to my exploration and expression.

A lot of my mental health struggles have a visualization of stemming from an underground cavern representing a dark place in my subconscious. The Abyss. The Abyss is basically how I visualize emotional repression, with manifestation of those unprocessed struggles often escaping the Abyss.

Learning to accept my struggles and tend to them instead of shutting them out has given me so much more autonomy over my mind.

So my upcoming project is a game about Amaiya delving into the Abyss. A way for me to make a tangible representation of both the mental health struggles I've had, and a way to make myself further face and process those things that are repressed down there. I'm hoping that not only will this project be therapeutic, but it may also be a way for me to express myself in a way that helps others understand my internal experiences.

OC: Amaiya
Owner: Amaiya(Me)
Artist: Amaiya(Me)