I think the biggest breakthrough for me was when the narrative, art, and gameplay finally started to click together.
Early on, it felt like I was juggling a bunch of separate pieces. I had a story I cared about and gameplay that worked, but they didn’t quite feel like they belonged to the same game.
There were a lot of moments where something technically worked, but just felt… off. Instead of pulling you further into the experience, it pulled you out of it. That was frustrating, especially because everything was being built at the same time. Changing one thing often meant rethinking a bunch of others.
At some point, though, it started to come together.
The gameplay began to feel less like something sitting on top of the story and more like an extension of it—like you were actually playing through the narrative instead of just watching it. That shift was really satisfying.
A lot of the process came down to making small adjustments over and over and trusting that eventually everything would land in the right place.
And it did.