As a new school year begins, so too does a new game project and this time I am a team leader. The game, called Pendulum Ascension puts you in the role of appraiser trapped within a morbid collector’s clockwork museum, where you must gather antique artifacts from a plethora of cursed collections in order to solve past murders by arranging these artifacts in specific combinations and peer into a previous pocket of time. The first week involved introductions of all the members of the team, familiarizing them with tools we will be using, and other tasks to get the team ready to start producing a game. From there we began flushing out ideas for the game and produce the high concept document. Each meeting we have we generated great ideas and have already planned out several mechanics, level design and narrative elements and will soon begin implementing them into our game. The only issue I have seen so far is that league of legends has shown to be our Achilles heel as it greatly distracts the team, but has yet to prevent us from accomplishing work.