Perch

This is my Capstone Project for RTVF's Video Game and Media Module. I made this game as a reflection of my feelings toward finishing my journey through Northwestern. Throughout my life, I have always felt constrained by locations as if I was in a prison. I've always been a lonely person and never got to leave the house except for school. After moving to study at Northwestern, I still had this sense of entrapment due to being locked in my room for my first two years during COVID. It wasn't until I studied abroad that I got a real taste of freedom. I felt that I could choose where I wanted to travel and experience the real world for the first time. When I returned from that journey, I returned to feeling trapped due to lack of excitement, stress, and an unknown sense of my future. I've always been jealous of birds, who can fly wherever they desire and migrate yearly. They ultimately get to see a world that I can only imagine. When I graduate from Northwestern, I also wish to experience freedom: freedom of responsibility, freedom of creativity, freedom of burden.