For my crazed side universe game, I finally finished up the first level and optimized it and it looks like it's running well [which is also good to know cuz my gpu is on the low end, a gtx 1050 ti. this computer can barely run 2015 games well anymore lmao.] Right now I'm working on finishing the cutscene and design of Ecto city [shown above. still a work in progress but i like the look of it so far] before i start working on and polishing up the next level the assimilation district where it'll introduce a few small choices and some stealth. It's slow progress, but it's getting somewhere, slowly but surely.

While working on the crazed side universe game, I've decided I want to make a side project where I finish up my old rough webseries the crazed side from 2019. so after episode 17 of the webseries it definitely became a giant mess as I wanted to take the webseries in five million directions [thank you, easily bored adhd brain, for that lol] and eventually after it became too much of a mess I just gave up on the old series. But, it's been like a few years since I worked on it and i decided i wanna go back to it and finish the series in one hour long episode. So far, i've finished the first scene and I'm hoping it'll be finished at least by the end of the year. also right now the episodes end on episode 17 and ive removed the other episodes after that.

Also if you havent seen my weird, badly made crazed side webseries, heres episode 1 to 17 in one video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHoBa4-B2Pk&t=13909s also i've re-edited episode 17 here on newgrounds to take away any plot points i've decided to remove. Also if you're curious about where the old webseries takes place, it takes place a million years before the game does. that giant gap in years will make sense why in the webseries finale. Also you dont have to watch the series to understand what's going on in the upcoming game as its both a reboot and a continuation cuz i like making really confusing convoluted stories lol.

Game update: So far I've been polishing up the first level and making sure it runs well, I'm so close to being done with that. just 2 more cutscenes and finally I can move on. Here's a clip of one of the cutscenes in the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up-J98rYYsI

Here in Ecto City in the heart of the assimilation district, a miracle has happened. A human wrestler has been transformed into the first living hamburger with cybernetic augmentations. His name is Blake Burger, a wrestler who was fired from the universal wrestlin' league after he ate a planet sized amount of cocaine and cocaine accessories. allegedly. Here's the exclusive interview with Blake:

Interviewer: So, why a hamburger?

Blake: Well ever since i was a microscopic mother fucker I wanted to be one when I tried my first burger. Something was off about eating it, it could've been the fact that 10 million parasites were on this burger, but I like to think that it was a sign. I wasn't meant to eat burgers, I was meant to join them as my brothers. So instead of eating this specific burger, I showed my dominance in the burger restaurant by T-posing. Here's a pic:

Interviewer: Oh uhm ok. Kinda just looks like the default pose animators use for CGI characters but ok I guess. My god you have a weird looking body. Looks like someone badly designed you and called it a day. It's like if tommy wiseau started making art, gah damn. Those proportions don't even make sense. Unlike the whole being a living hamburger thing, that part makes a lot of sense. But the unrealistic body? That ruins my immersion.

Blake: Well see that's what the media wants you to think. In reality, I was showing off my awesome power and ability to extend my arms into a T-pose shape. and also my body isn't weird, it's thicc.

Interviewer: Oh totally, yes. So then what occurred?

Blake: Well then it scared the restaurant off and they stopped serving hamburgers.

Interviewer: Really?

Blake: Naw, they all died from those 10 million parasites on their burgers you fuckin' mother. Anyways, after this I dedicated my life to finding some way to become a burger. Years went by without anything happening. But one day I came.

Interviewer: ...to a conclusion?

Blake: Naw, I just came and had some clarity. And then I came to a conclusion. And then I came one more time for good measure.

Interviewer: What conclusion?

Blake: That if I wanted to be a burger I would have to do it by my own 2, at the moment, very sticky hands. I spent months figuring out how to morph myself into a burger shape. I watched 1000 Mcdolnalds ads to prep myself until I learned the proper way to do it. and I finally accomplished. Aren't i beautiful?

Interviewer: honestly, bro, it looks like your skin is rotting and falling apart, your teeth are in bad shape, looks like you got some purple eye disease that's been going around in Ecto, and your legs are in the wonky shape of a fuckin' tesla truck.

Blake: So in other words, I'm perfect.

Interviewer: Yep totally what I mean, dude.