What's up fellas? How y'all doin'? I just wanna let y'all know: I'm in!
And I'm gonna get straight to sharing those suggestions of mine.
As you can see I launched some heavy payloads right there! Umm... I'm not sure if that pun landed very well. Ok, puns are rover now. I hope nobody puts me behind mars for making so many puns.
Let me know in the comets below what you think of me, my puns, and my suggestions. :smile:
Well people, let's have another good run.
So here are my theme suggestions. What do you think?
I'm IN! This is my second LD Jam and these are my theme suggestions:- * Survive the Disaster * Teleport to live * Be the enemy to destroy the enemy
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I haven't been following the LD news, but I see that there are only two Ludum Dare events scheduled for this year.. I was disappointed when they went down to three, but now two only? Does anyone know the reason for this, and what the plans are for the future of Ludum Dare?
This has been one of the main constants in my life, and I'd really hate to see it changed too drastically.
Ajoutez moi les copains!
At least 91 civilians were killed across Myanmar on Saturday, according to a tally by the independent Myanmar Now news outlet, as the military junta continued to crack down on peaceful protests.
The killings in 40 towns and cities across the country would represent the bloodiest day of protests since a military coup last month. CNN has been unable to independently confirm the number of people killed. The lethal crackdown came on the country's Armed Forces Day. Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the junta leader, said during a parade in the capital Naypyitaw to mark the event that the military would protect the people and strive for democracy, Reuters reported. State television had said on Friday that protesters risked being shot "in the head and back." Despite this, demonstrators against the February 1 coup came out on the streets of Yangon, Mandalay and other towns.
The United Nations office in Myanmar condemned the violence Saturday in a strongly worded statement. "The United Nations in Myanmar is horrified by the needless loss of life today with reports of dozens of people shot dead by the military across the country, in the bloodiest day since the coup," the office said. "The violence is completely unacceptable and must stop immediately. Those responsible must be held to account. "As the Special Envoy on Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener has said, ensuring peace and defending the people should be the responsibility of any military, but the Tatmadaw has turned against its own people." The Tatmadaw is the official name for Myanmar's armed forces. According to the latest tally by the nonprofit Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, at least 328 people have been killed in Myanmar since the military coup on February 1.
A boy reported by local media to be as young as five was among at least 29 people killed in Mandalay. At least 24 people were killed in Yangon, Myanmar Now said, according to Reuters.
"Today is a day of shame for the armed forces," Dr. Sasa, a spokesman for CRPH, an anti-junta group set up by deposed lawmakers, told an online forum.
Meanwhile, one of Myanmar's two dozen ethnic armed groups, the Karen National Union, said it had overrun an army post near the Thai border, killing 10 people -- including a lieutenant colonel -- and losing one of its own fighters, Reuters reported.
A military spokesman did not respond to calls from the news agency seeking comment on the killings by security forces or the insurgent attack on its post.
"They are killing us like birds or chickens, even in our homes," said Thu Ya Zaw in the central town of Myingyan, where at least two protesters were killed, according to Reuters. "We will keep protesting regardless... We must fight until the junta falls."
Reva-Lou Reva is worried. For the first time he can remember, he says hospitals around the Pacific Island nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG) are so overburdened they are closing their doors to patients.
“This is very frightening, to know that you don’t have any medical facilities open, or very limited, and you cannot easily access them because of the restriction,” says Reva, 48, PNG assistant country director of program support for humanitarian non-profit CARE International. “I’m breathless, I can’t explain how difficult it is.”
Until recently, PNG had largely managed to stave off a major coronavirus outbreak. At the end of February, the country had only reported 1,275 cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
But over the past month, cases have more than tripled. PNG has now reported at least 4,660 Covid-19 cases and 39 related deaths, including that of MP Richard Mendani, who died age 53 earlier this month, according to a Radio New Zealand report. On Friday, the country reported 560 new infections — its highest for a single day — with Prime Minister James Marape admitting there is “rampant community transmission.”
While those figures might not seem high compared to other countries, they pose a major issue in PNG, where the government says there are only about 500 doctors for an estimated population of 9 million people. At the best of times, the country’s health system is fragile — now NGOs are warning it could be on the “verge of collapse.”
Low testing rates also mean PNG’s case load is likely much higher — something authorities acknowledge. Meanwhile, rampant misinformation in the country means some people are still not taking the threat seriously. https://www.getrevue.co/profile/watch-attack-on-titan-s4e16-hd https://www.getrevue.co/profile/attack-on-titan-full-episodes https://www.getrevue.co/profile/hd-attack-on-titan-s4e16-online Onlookers warn the crisis could worsen next week as people in the predominantly Christian nation travel home for Easter — and are calling on neighboring Australia and New Zealand to do more to help.
“Papua New Guinea’s health crisis has now reached the level we feared it would a year ago with a surge in cases,” Amnesty International’s Pacific researcher Kate Schuetze said earlier this month. “A combination of an ailing health system and inadequate living conditions has created a perfect storm for Covid-19 to thrive in the country’s overcrowded informal settlements.”
For almost a year, PNG seemed to handle the outbreak well.
The country confirmed its first case on March 20 last year — an man who had traveled from Spain. Within two days, the Prime Minister declared a state of emergency, stopping all incoming and domestic flights, and limiting travel between provinces. Onlookers and the government were concerned an outbreak in PNG would be disastrous.
“Our country does not have a health system that is capable of defending our people in this time of emergency with the threat of the coronavirus entering and spreading in our country,” Prime Minister Marape said in Parliament on April 2. At the time, he said PNG had 500 doctors, fewer than 4,000 nurses, under 3,000 community health workers and only 5,000 hospital bed spaces. “Our existing health capacity is insufficient to fight this battle,” he added.
PNG has one of the lowest ratios of doctors per 1,000 people in the world. According to 2018 World Bank figures, the country had 0.07 physicians per 1,000 people — well below the 2017 average among small Pacific Islands (0.5), the 2017 world average (1.6), or the 2017 level in the United States (2.6).
For a while, PNG’s measures appeared to work. It took until February this year for the country to reach 1,000 cases. But Covid-19 was likely circulating under the radar, says Justine McMahon, PNG country director for CARE. “It’s been here for months,” McMahon said. She added that up until a month ago, people were quite ambivalent about the Covid-19 pandemic, but “there’s a growing sense of trepidation everywhere.”
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Screenwriter and director Ruchi Narain struggled for decades to find steady work in the Indian film industry.
Even with two major, critically acclaimed films under her belt — “Kal: Yesterday and Tomorrow,” a thriller she wrote and directed, and “Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi,” a political drama that won Bollywood’s equivalent of an Academy Award — the work just wouldn’t come. “I struggled a lot because I am an outsider and a woman,” Narain told CNN Business. “I was meeting people every week but it all went nowhere.” That changed when Netflix (NFLX) arrived in India in 2016.
Since then, the Mumbai-based filmmaker says she has “been inundated with work.” Her film “Guilty” — a social issues drama about a rape investigation — was released by the streaming giant in 2020. In the same year, Disney+ Hotstar released her 8-part comedy series “Hundred.” Now, increasing government scrutiny of these more provocative projects and other groundbreaking stories is worrying Narain and many other creators in Mumbai, the home of India’s film industry.
Original shows on Amazon Prime and Netflix have lately drawn ire from Indian politicians and regular citizens who consider these films and TV shows insensitive to cultural and religious beliefs.
Police complaints have also piled up against creators and company executives, and some of the offenses they have been accused of — including committing “deliberate or malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings” — carry prison terms of up to three years, a fine, or both. And, in recent months, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has announced new rules and guidelines for streaming services, though no explicit bans on particular themes.
India’s creative community now fears that streaming services may buckle under the pressure, and refrain from touching stories that are even remotely controversial. It’s a troubling sign for an industry that had just begun experimenting with new forms of storytelling and producing shows capable of worldwide appeal. Just last year, Delhi Crime, a Netflix drama series based on the real rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in India’s capital, won an international Emmy.
The arrival of Amazon (AMZN) and Netflix in India has been a boon to directors and writers like Narain, who had long languished on the fringes of Bollywood — an industry often accused of nepotism. Several filmmakers told CNN Business they thought the international streaming services introduced a degree of professionalism.
“I co-directed a film called ‘House Arrest,’ which was released on Netflix in 2019, and everyone on set was thrilled just because they were getting paid on time,” said Samit Basu, novelist and filmmaker. He added that the culture changed to one where rigorous research and development were commonplace.
“A lot of book rights were auctioned and writers’ rooms started happening,” Basu added. “Earlier, people in the film industry hardly ever read books.” More importantly, these companies made it possible for storytellers to explore subjects that had previously been untouched. Bollywood films are hamstrung by the Central Board of Film Certification, which forces filmmakers to remove everything from kisses and swear words to shots of drug abuse — once even from a film about drug abuse. Indian TV, which is also regulated by the government, is dominated by often regressive stories about housewives and mothers-in-law.
Streaming content broke that mold because it was, until recently, unregulated by the government. “Sacred Games,” Netflix’s first original series in the country, shocked Indian viewers by casting well-known actors in a show that liberally made use of abusive language, violence and nudity. The program was compared to “Narcos,” Netflix’s hit American drama about Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar.
Amazon’s first series in the country, meanwhile, was “Inside Edge” — a show about the dark underbelly of cricket, a sport that is worshipped in India. Both “Inside Edge and “Sacred Games” were nominated for International Emmy awards.
Several other shows on the platforms have also taken an unflinching look at subjects ranging from politics to female sexuality, which Bollywood and Indian TV have typically shied away from. “I am glad I did my film for Netflix because they did not dilute anything,” said Narain, referring to her project “Guilty.” read more:
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With Ludum Dare coming up in less than a month, I just thought I'd share a recollection of my experience participating in last year event (LD47).
Please let me know what you guys think 👏
Last year in April I participated at Ludum Dare #46, together with my friends Luca, Sandro and Zwi. It was my personal 10th time joining Ludum Dare and we created the first prototype for our relaxing village building game Dorfromantik.
The theme was "keep it alive" - after our ideation phase we decided on the idea of keeping an ecosystem alive by balancing nature and civilisation. We wanted the game to be really simple at its core while still being easily scalable in the future and came up with the tile laying mechanic to build landscapes, as well as quests rewarding certain landscape formations.
And this is what our entry looked like in the end:
https://youtu.be/yGqdeMoUPFs
All four of us are currently studying for our Game Design Master at HTW Berlin and were planning to found an indie studio and document the development cycle of our first game as our Master thesis, so Dorfromantik was one potential prototype to pursue as our first commercial project. Your initial reception was super positive and supportive which encouraged us a lot to develop Dorfromantik into a full game! So after evaluating all our prototypes and the feedback we received, we settled on it. We would commit on working on Dorfromantik for 12 months to release it as our first commercial title!
After some more planning (as well as applying for funding and founding our company Toukana Interactive) we began redesigning and reworking our core system and ended up with our minimum viable product in June 2020.
Originally we had the plan to work together at an office space provided by the DE:HIVE institute, but the Covid pandemic forced us to work remote for almost the whole development period. However, we found a good way to make remote collaboration work for us and embraced occupying our minds with developing this peaceful game while staying home during the extensive lockdowns.
So with several months of high productivity, we improved all aspects of the game and managed to build up a community in the process. Since we felt confident about our progress, we also decided to release Dorfromantik earlier than originally planned as an Early Access title.
And so, on March 25th we released Dorfromantik on Steam and GOG! 🎉🎉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nrfmZ5CpI4
We're super proud of how it turned out, but also absolutely overwhelmed by the amazing reception Dorfromantik received from the players! Now we're looking forward to continue working on it, improving and extending it and maybe bringing it to other platforms as well!
Thank you so much everyone for being an amazing creative community! Dorfromantik wouldn't be here without Ludum Dare and I'm so glad that my first successful title has its origins in my favorite game jam!
Also we have to give a huge thanks to our professors at DE:HIVE for supporting us along the whole development and the Medienboard for granting us funding, enabling us to work on Dorfromantik full time!
If you're interested, you can check out Dorfromantik on Steam or GOG and help us out by leaving a positive review!
It's a great way to say thank you to all your fans, so I decided to do a fanart album on my itch io page!
Click in the link below to see it more!
https://gabrieldevbr.itch.io/luke-inn/devlog/236592/fanart-album-i
It's been a long time since I've worked on a game. I'm excited to return to what brought me to programming all those years ago.
As im sure you know theres been alot of bots spamming random things either random articles that have nothing to do with ludum dare or products. I really feel like we should have these bots be banned share your opinion I personally just find it really annoying.
Good evening all I am programmer and again looking to assemble a team feel free to check out my page and send me a message if you want to work with me. Have a lovely day and with best regards KingOfNova.