Hunter Pearson: April 2019

Ludum Dare 44 Theme is: Your life is currency

Great this one of the topics I was dreading.

Ludum Dare 44 will begin in six hours!

Ludum Dare 44 Final Round Vote

I have missed the previous three rounds of voting due to having to attend a work conference. Here was my topic recommendations. Overall most of the topics are quite useable and I have a feeling it is going to be a good event. At the moment my favorite topic would be 'Change the genre of a classic video game'. I am undecided about the topic 'Side Effects' and will have to come back to it later.

Udemy PHP Security

Link to the course

It was a short simple course taught by Edwin Diaz for twelve dollars. I took the course just as a refresher since security is always changing. Overall it had limited helpfulness since I already knew most of the course work. The course topics follow this flow: build a vulnerable webpage, break the page, secure the page. It is a nice format since students can 'see' the problem however the course doesn't go deeper than that.

Ludum Dare Wallpaper

Leon Möhring had made an awesome wallpaper however it was specific to Ludum Dare 37.

I modified the wallpaper so it would no longer be unique to Ludum Dare 37.

And here is a picture of the wallpaper in use for Ludum Dare 44.

Ludum Dare 44 Theme Slaughter

Today I logged into Ludum Dare to check out where we are at with theme voting and found out Ludum Dare 44 Theme Slaughter has started. Here is a brief view of my first ten selections and my thoughts on each of them.

1) Combination ✓

Thoughts:
Combination is a nice topic since it is so vague. Instantly puzzle games pop into my head but there is so much to play here anything really works even games like Sim Earth. I voted yes since it is easy to work with both mechanically and esthetically.