#getting some good dopamine from the new header though

[hungrydogs-if]

happy first monday (let's pretend it's monday yes) of december! it's yule time. i am thriving. also treated myself by slapping together a new update header, hope y'all like it!

this last month has been spent on a lot of reflecting, on how i want to go forward with this game, how i've portrayed it so far, and how my friends have reacted to my ideas and idle chatter about it.

i feel like i've made the game seem... comedic. i mean, it is, to some extent, but not this much. i'll be trying to show more of the gritty, dark, and heavy side of it in the future. i mean, even a buddy of mine called it an endearing little saints row fan-game so i almost gave up on this entirely. my heart still sinks when i think about it.

but i'm getting off track! sorry about that. before continuing, here's the word count update!

word count: 5648 -> 6657

i realize that this number is super small for a month of progress, and i can't say the other one has fared too well either. it's been a bad month for me all around, and i now work two jobs just to keep myself afloat which is not doing my creative spirit any favors. the mental health is crumbling y'all.

good news is that i've gotten permission to take my laptop to work and can tinker on the game when there's nothing else demanding my attention. which should bump up the number for next months update, because i would love to get at least the prologue finished and edited so i could release it before new year. a dream if i ever had one for sure.

about sam: they went though a makeover! i've not yet made changes to their pinterest board, and there's no changes happening to their backstory; they're still the same sam suffering from a terrible upbringing, who talks their way out of trouble while fighting off chronic migraines by smoking enough weed to put snoop dogg to shame. there's of course more to them but that feels most apt right now haha.

i can also say that there are now five endings to the game, if i make sense of the outlines. three of them are main endings, with their own little minor epilogues depending on a variety of things (mostly who's alive, carrying choices, etc.) and two bad endings, at least for now. not counting mc deaths as bad endings though, since there are multiple points where they can die so it'd be pretty redundant.

anywho, happy holidays to those celebrating, and sorry for a late update!

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