Ludum Dare 16

by SonnyBone
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So I'm going to be entering Ludum Dare 16 this year. What is Ludum Dare? It's a video game design competition where you have 48 hours to design a game from scratch by yourself. Leading up to the competition, themes and categories are nominated. The day before the event, everyone votes on their favorite theme. Then, 5 minutes before the contest begins, they announce the winning theme and everyone races to complete their game.

The theme for Ludum Dare 15 was CAVERNS. Every game had to involve caverns in some way. Past themes include Minimalism, Advancing Wall of Doom, Roads, and Infection.

So... since I can't start thinking about the game I want to make... all I can come up with are theme suggestions. The one that keeps popping up in my head is:

TURN BASED EATING

Think about it.

How fucking stupid does that sound?

But really...

Think about it.

HOW FUCKING AWESOME DOES THAT SOUND?

I will one day design a game that will allow you to jam a wire into your tongue and then you just eat whatever the fuck you want to earn points. Shitty food makes you die and great food makes you GOD. We could battle online to see who can eat better food. Me VS Wackydeli in a beer / southern cooking fite.

BUT I DIGRESS.

I need theme ideas for Ludum Dare 16. Wacky shit. Crazy shit. Something that would NEVER be voted upon.

POST EM UP SUCKAZ

Rob Liefield and the Vague Power of Kicking Ass

So I don't buy new comics anymore. They bore the shit out of me because they put 2 issues of story into 6 issues. So all the substance is stretched out to the point of being almost not there. Sure the art is prettier now, but everything is being written by completely pretentious jerk offs that think that everything should be put back into the same status quo that they had when they were kids. Which is fine if you're afraid of forward progress. Instead, I've been spending my money on older comics. Specifically 90s comics. They are regarded by internet comic "fans" as being the worst things every made (yet they buy New Avengers, but whatever man, it's your money). I disagree. I find them to be very entertaining and just plain awesome.

This brings me to the title. So I've bought a lot Image comics. They're good (most of the time anyway). My main complaint is that Rob Liefield creates a lot of characters with the vague power of just kicking ass. These are guys who are skilled at all hand to hand fighting styles, they can shoot any gun regardless of it's ridiculous size, they're almost always obscenely over muscled yet somehow are all world class gymnasts. Here's a list of characters from some of the Liefield titles that featured characters with the vague power of kicking ass.


Chapel: In the beginning he was a good guy on Youngblood then he ended up being a bad guy (and was the guy that killed Spawn) and then government gave him Super AIDS because he was an asshole. Then they stuck him on a team full of people who kept getting brought back from the dead. I did not make any of that up. THE GOVERNMENT GAVE HIM SUPER AIDS BECAUSE HE WAS AN ASSHOLE.

Vogue: She's some Russian Spy who runs around with weird hair. I don'r really know a lot about her because in the issues I have she doesn't do much.

Shaft: He not only gets the vague power to kick ass, he also gets a space bow and arrow. It uses magnets or gravity or some shit like that to shoot arrows without using a bow string. Who cares WHY, he has an awesome stringless bow and he kicks ass!

Battlestone: Of Brigade is a guy who fought in World War II alongside an Atlantean Prince named Roman (which is definitely not Namor spelled backwards), and some other guys. He also got killed in the past and was brought back to life through Project: Born Again. They mention that he doesn't have super powers, yet somehow he throws people like ragdolls and punches through robots. Why does he do things? Because these things kick ass and that's what he does.

Prophet: He was built by Nazis, to fight some menace like a thousand years in the future WITH SWORDS. Also he gets his power to kick ass from some satellite and nearly dies when the thing was deactivated, but then it gets turned back on by a midget from the future named Kirby (who also had the power to kick ass, only he is short while he does it).

Cabbot: He is the leader of Bloodstrike. Like the rest of the team, he was killed and brought back to life by Project: Born Again. While everyone else had some sort of power (and in one case a giant robot) he's stuck just being able to kick ass.

Boone, Lethal, and Kayo: These three are members of Brigade (Battlestone's group) and they all seem to just kick people's ass for no discernible reason.

On top of those characters there is also every villain who has the power to kick ass just long enough to be a threat to who he's fighting but not long enough to actually win. Most of the time they're shady government guys or some other conspiracy group, but they share the undefined power of being "really good in a fight."

Also anyone that is a fan of shooting things should be playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.

Irie

Irie is a newish, still not even a month old, seafood joint in Oxford. It's located next to AJAX, so it already has tough competition. However the selling point that got me there was the 25 beers on tap. Leinenkugel on TAP got me there alone. So Saturday I went out during the football game, since everyone was there, and decided to sit at the bar and just have a Leinenkugel. Well I started smelling the food and decided against it.



I got the grilled salmon, cheese grits, and slaw. It was very good, despite what others have told me about the place. I eat fish three times a week, and it wasn't dry. Maybe I got lucky? Maybe they just knew who I was? Maybe others just don't know what good food tastes like? I'm going with that.

I just wanted to share this with you guys. Especially while thinking about it when taking a break from studying for my certification test in the morning. FISH FOOD IS GOOD FOOD!

HORRIBLE

Man, I've heard buzz about Tom MaGee being the worst professional wrestler of all time, and I think this guy has Giant Gonzalez beat for sure. I didn't know the guy had worked his way to Japan, though, based on his looks alone. Get ready for some HARD HITTING PURORESU ACTION:



This guy makes Giant Baba's chops look like they're coming from Big Van Vader in comparison.

Day 5

So I went back to the doc this morning. I told him the meds were having the opposite effect. He said to give it another week and if it's still happening then we will do something different.

In other news I got a hot dog last night from THE HOT DOG GUY on the Oxford Square. For three dollars you can get a fucking great hot dog. I went with the poultry dog actually, and it starts my weekend off to a great start.

Sorry no pictures.

Crazzzy

So my doc put me back on the crazy pills. No more alcohol which Is
fine. I was on a world record pace to drinking myself to death last
weekend. Which is when a friend stepped in and made me go back to my
psych. Back on the meds and the psych is calling me everyday to see
how I am and to let me tell him what's up.

First day on new meds. Reverse effect happens of what is planned. I
weep openly in public for over 4 hours because I can't stop.

Lately my life has been shitty. Being extremely lonely to the point
that because I'm so drunk out a bartender takes my phone and calls a
friend to come deal with me instead of just kicking me out.

This post brought to you by wackydeli. And is something new, the trip
with a legit severely depressed individual.

A good question to ask candidates...

I'm not sure where the rest of you fall on this, but since New York City happens to be where the UN is situated, we get a FREQUENT influx of foreign dignitaries, diplomats, high muckamucks, panjandrums, etc.

And with that frequent influx, we get our newspapers (PRINT! In 2009!) investigating and revealing at least once or twice every few months or so that they owe MASSIVE fines and back taxes to the city. Of course, since none of it's been paid off, it just makes sense to ask our mayoral candidates the following 2-part question:

"With so many revelations of foreign diplos racking up such massive debt to the city, why hasn't anything been done to collect, and what do you plan on doing to collect if elected mayor?"

Given that much of our public services end up severely underfunded, collecting those back taxes and fines would go a long way in making sure the budget doesn't job out to useless kowtowing.

How much does this occur in your cities?