Good luck with the rest of the project, I will be for sure checking that out when you are done.
It will be interesting to see how that develops without the pressure of the jam deadline looming overhead. I find it really very strange that the main reason I join jams is to give me motivation and an incentive to get a game over the line to a deadline, then complain I have a said deadline LOL it's such an infuriating dynamic.
Your insights into the military are very interesting to read. The line between order and chaos, right and wrong, light and dark, good and evil. For me, personally, if you would have asked me if I would have served my country ten years ago I would have been proud to say yes and follow in the footsteps of my grandparents who fought bravely to protect our rights, freedoms and security. Now if I was conscripted I wouldn't believe for what I was fighting in at all. Maybe old man felt the same and his way of exploring these feelings was to pick up a Chris Ryan or Tom Clancy novel - his way of jumping down that particular rabbit hole.
Again even though the material and theme were not my usual preference I was singularly impressed with your writing style and the development of your characters and the differing lenses from which they view the world. Perhaps when you are done with your project and find yourself at a loose end, you would consider a collaboration with myself on an RPG Maker game that we could mutually design together from scratch taking on a theme we could agree interests us? Absolutely no obligation, of course, just a thought - again I love the way you build narrative and develop your characters - something I neglected in my own game. One of my strengths I believe is my writing - but what we are good at and what we enjoy doing and putting time into are two separate beasts as I'm sure you know.
Thanks for the good weekend wish - I'm doing great, I hope yours is awesome too.