This game started as Michael’s emotion project for CTIN 488 Game Design Workshop and was designed to make the players feel stressed. Inspired by bored Dungeons and Dragons players stacking dice, the palpable tension that they felt when they got to the last dice on top spawned a game where players had to stack Jenga blocks to grow “trees” of a certain height. Players enjoyed the creativity and personalization they could have while growing their trees and Michael wanted to maintain that feeling when it came to the final. The team couldn’t find readily producible wooden blocks so the game underwent many changes. Michael still wanted the game to be about nature and took inspiration from growing bonsai trees. The solution then was to use hexagonal cards and slot them together to still get the sense of building. When making prototypes, Michael cut out over 200 of these hexagons and continued to iterate and improve on our prototypes.