The prompt for this challenge was 'Together we Thrive', my first step in development and deciding what I wanted to communicate was figuring out what this phrase meant. Eventually I landed on the concept of pruning or weeding for growth in a garden or with a tree. A garden cannot be properly cultivated or thrive if its overgrown with weeds nor can a tree flourish if there is a parasite eating away at it. I decided to take this concept and apply it to a more relatable context in the form of the good ol' Wild West, using a program I have only ever briefly touched once over a year ago, Twine.

This went about as well as I expected, and I think I spent around 3 hours just trying to figure out how I was meant to code in different ways with this new software I decided to use for my own masochistic pleasure. In the end though everything worked out, even if I didn't have the time nor energy to add images or music to my end product. Thankfully the core of the game is the narrative, and I think I I managed to flesh it out relatively well considering the time constraints and technical mishaps I experienced along the way.

Overall I think the core idea of 'picking and choosing wisely' and tangentially from that the idea of 'pruning' and 'Together we Thrive' has a strong presence in this choose your own adventure, even if it did take a different view on the topic compared to what may be the 'norm'.