I started development on this game 1 year ago on November 8th, 2021 with the question "What can I do with my current programming abilities to make a game?" in my head. It was firstly named "RPG in only one .java file" as a placeholder name for what would be later named "The Path to Power". I started development with guns blazing, super hyped and getting lines and lines of code written for everything. I then stumbled on some 8-bit music on YouTube one day and I thought that would be fitting for my game, so I started teaching myself to use programs to make it. This was sort of a setback, with all of the editing I had to do to everything to include audio and whatnot, but I am happy that I now have music and sound effects for the game. I was finally done with integrating the music and sound effects into the game, so now was the time to add to the story, but my motivation was going down and it doesn't help when you're on writer's block, are barely a writer in the first place, the .java file taking forever to open, and now have Marching Band as an extracurricular activity, so I just took a break from making the game (I did however strengthen my music making skills for the game's OST to be better in the future). Marching Band was fun, we went to State Finals at Lucas Oil Stadium (the place where the Indianapolis Colts play football) on November 5th, 2022 and got 8th place out of 10. I will probably go back to working on the game and fix some stuff. Maybe the game should be made of many .java files to make programming easier, because last time I opened the .java file, it took like 30 minutes to actually get up and running. Ok, yeah, I'm gonna do that, nobody's even here to care that the game will no longer be in "only one .java file" so it's fine.

Happy anniversary to The Path to Power's development