I am a hearing animation student at California College of the Arts in Oakland who is interested in deaf culture after taking 2 asl classes in community college in sacramento. During this time I was also taking a game design class when suddenly an idea came to me. I had researched many different projects in other countries in other languages because I wanted to be more aware about the world of game design at the time when I had a revelation of sorts. The idea came to me to make a game where the character was not only mute, as most protagonists in games tend to be because it lends to focusing on game play rather than communication and cut back