Attachment Issues

The Project

Attachment Issues is a puzzle adventure game that lets you explore space while getting to know various creatures. You craft things and help your new friends! 

This project was my graduation project at HKU Games. I graduated as a Game Designer. The goal for this project was to create a game that would create the feeling of wonder within the player.

For this project, I worked as a game designer and as a game developer. I got help from a Game Artist and two Sound Designers. This game was made during a school project, so we only had 20 weeks to complete this project.

At the end of the project, I got the opportunity to display the game at the HKU Showcase.
During the project, I also showed an early version at Anime Con in Rijswijk.

The Process

Starting with Wonder as the emotion I wanted the player to experience during the game was a big challenge for me. In previous projects, I was used to there being at least a little bit of a gameplay concept beforehand. Now I went in with complete freedom. I learned a lot about doing research a basing my game design decisions on that research.