There was a contest on Newgrounds back in late 2023. By then I was already working on Donkey as a story concept, mapping out the world and characters and such, but I still had a lot of things to figure out. Despite not being quite ready to go, i wanted to enter the contest, and for that I needed 16 pages, and I had only a few weeks to do them. I don't think I've ever worked so hard in my life to get something done by a deadline, and while I'm proud of what I made at the time, I knew I could do better.
