Health Pills started with what I can only describe as an ambitious assignment.

For most of the semester, our Computer Graphics class focused on learning fundamental concepts through Python plotting points, moving objects across a screen, drawing basic shapes, and understanding how graphics work programmatically. Then, for the final project, our professor essentially said: “Now create an anti-drug animation.”

To this day, I'm still not entirely sure how we got from moving a point across a coordinate plane to producing a complete narrative experience in two weeks.

As expected, the classroom immediately descended into chaos. While everyone was trying to figure out how to approach the assignment, I started looking for alternatives. My logic was simple: if I was already confused, I might as well be confused while making something fun.

So instead of creating a traditional animation, I decided to build a small game.

The biggest challenge was that I had absolutely no idea how to make a game.

At the time, my experience was mostly limited to programming fundamentals and academic projects. Suddenly, I found myself learning Godot from scratch, figuring out how game engines work, searching for assets, integrating audio, building environments, managing files through GitHub, and somehow turning all of those pieces into a coherent experience before the deadline arrived.

Every day felt like discovering three new problems and creating five more. The project became a constant cycle of YouTube tutorials, documentation, trial and error, and asking myself questions such as: “Why is the player flying?” or “Why did everything disappear when I moved this node?”

Looking back, the challenge was less about creating an anti-drug game and more about proving to myself that I could learn an entirely new toolset under pressure and still deliver something meaningful.