The 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. A lot of those sites are now gone.

You can still 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.

10 years later I still get questions about the game and whether I'm working on a sequel.

The Flash Player is no longer supported and this game is not playable on modern browsers in its original format. Most sites convert the game into a playable format though.

The Awakening was selected for preservation on both Flashmuseum.org and Flashpoint.

You can download The Awakening here.