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🎄Mo Candy Christmas: Behind the Scenes Series🎄 Post # 4 - “Christmas Eve”

The church in the Mo Candy Christmas scene “Silent Night” is a real church that’s still standing today. This story is from one of our artists.

“Christmas Eve” -

This is where I spent Christmas Eve as a kid. It's a Catholic church about 5 miles down the road from where I grew up, tucked away in a draw of the Cheyenne River brakes.

My family and a handful of neighbors would meet up at a place called the Sioux Spiritual Center, greeted by the priest who had his residence there. After a bit of mingling the candles were handed out, kids included. An unprompted hush would settle over the small crowd as the conversations died down. The candle had a little paper protector to keep the wax from dripping down your hand. Once it was lit, it absorbed every ounce of my wide eyed child’s attention - watching the wax melt and drip, keeping it lit with a carefully cupped small hand around the flame.

The lighting of the candles meant it was time to start the procession. With the strong scent of cedar in the air, we would cross a long foot bridge over a steep draw, feet crunching in frozen snow, up a lighted path to this church. I think we sang Silent Night during this procession, but I'm not sure if that detail was real or an embellishment to complete the perfect painting in my memory. That's how memory goes.

It was a standard Catholic church service I'm sure, but it was extra holy to me. To witness the bowing, the kneeling, the recitations - all demanded reverence. We sang all the classic Christmas songs.

At home, Dad always managed to delay us kids outside for some little curiosity…”Hey, look! There's reindeer tracks! You guys gotta see this!” Sometimes he would actually get lucky and some serendipitous deer had recently traipsed through the yard. Meanwhile Santa, aka Mom, was in the house bustling to get presents under the tree. Of course we never suspected anything, not even the coincidence of Santa having the exact same hand writing as Mom.

For supper we would all have our Christmas delicacy - oyster stew for mom and dad, homemade tomato soup for the kids, made with canned garden tomatoes. Or sometimes macaroni and cheese with hot dogs, equally luxurious. Sometimes we would have lefse with butter, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. We would always have molasses cookies, which my Grandma mailed us every year.

Nowadays my family and I stay home and make tamales and conchas on Christmas Eve. Whatever your traditions are for this holiday season, we wish you a very special time with your loved ones. We love you all! –EvolutionRed Staff and Families

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🎄Mo Candy Christmas: Behind the Scenes Series🎄 Post #3: "The Tiny Details." This week we’ll share a little story from one of our concept artists.
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"The Tiny Details"
Even in the dead of winter the landscape leaves the promise or the memory of summer. The tree stump in the worlds “Snowy Sunrise” and “Silent Night” of Mo Candy Christmas has been used in EvolutionRed game scenery more than once, hanging out in the periphery with its quiet side-note of history. In its younger years, this tree stump was one of two large cottonwood trees - one of which had two swings hung from a large low horizontal branch. They weren’t plastic Walmart swings, or a backyard playground picked from a magazine, erected by a professional crew in an afternoon. They were a simple design. A long rope was tied at one end to the tree, slung down to a height knee-high to a 4-year-old, with the other end tied back up on the tree about a foot apart. It was stiff lasso rope. For the seat, an old piece of scrap wood had two notches cut in each side. There were two of these. One for myself and one for my sister. I don’t know who put them up or when, surely my Dad. To me they were just always there and always had been. When we tired of the swings my sister and I would lay on the slope of the lawn and imagine animals in the clouds, with the rattle of the cottonwoods providing the soundtrack to a fairy-tale childhood moment.
So why do I use this stump over and over again? Is it for the memory? Or does it just remind me of what is gone, remind me how many cottonwoods I’ve outlived? Really, I don’t know. I always say that art is for saying the things there are no words for. Maybe it’s just because I like its stark imagery, made all the more stark by what I know it used to be.
Maybe the cottonwood saplings I’m growing in my own back yard will survive to support their own swings. When I am 80, I will make them out of lasso rope and scrapwood.
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Though this is a story from just one of our concept artists, cottonwoods happen to be a cherished element for many of our team members here at EvolutionRed. From the memory of fishing off a low hanging limb to the distinctive sound cottonwoods make, their image or their essence will always find its way into the scenery of our games.
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Extra: The cottonwood stump in this story is in at least one more EvolutionRed game. Can you find it? Post a screenshot here and we’ll send you an in-game bonus!
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🎄Mo Candy Christmas: Behind the Scenes Series🎄

Post #1: “The Shop” - Inspirations from Childhood

The first scene of Mo Candy Christmas, "Snowy Sunrise" was inspired by a building we call “The Shop”. It’s where my dad fixed tractors and I fixed bikes. It’s also where the cats usually had their kittens, and still do to this day! I spent a lot of hours outside “The Shop” taming kittens with my sister.
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