The Awakening
Solo developer · 
Flash · 2014 · 5 yearsThe Awakening was a passion project that I worked on for several years. I released it in October 2014. I was overwhelmed by the number of players it had and the positive response it got. It got 2 million views across all websites it was featured on.
You used to be able to play the game on Newgrounds.com, Armorgames.com or Kongregate.com. It won 3 awards on Newgrounds.
You can watch a playthrough of The Awakening here.
I worked on The Awakening for about 5 years after college. It was my love letter to gaming and the RPG games I played growing up like Suikoden and Final Fantasy 7 and 10. It's a huge game with many characters, monsters and locations to explore. I made an entire wiki for the game, mostly to keep track of everything myself.
I learned so much about game design and optimization (and how to fail at doing so) while developing The Awakening.
The Flash Player is no longer supported and this game is not playable on modern browsers in its original format.
You can still play The Awakening on Flashmuseum.org.
You can download The Awakening here.
