Posted May 09, 2021 by Khayalan arts
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"What is the city but the people" - William Shakespeare
Hello folks!
This week we take a peek at one of the final level art within SAMUDRA's journey.
As some of you are already aware - the world's climate is changing and there are many consequences to this issue; like sinking cities. The town we are currently developing this game from, Jakarta, Indonesia, is the world's fastest sinking city — as fast as 10 centimetres per year. So yeah it is probably not a deadline that we should be worried about - but the fact that we'd have to move our studio onto an ark & prepare our diving helmet or something.
As insanely surreal as this sound - this had been a thorn in all Jakartan's side when we were all growing up; flooding is an annual thing, and as a resident, we kind of ironically just got used to it. Some actions were implemented by the people in charge, but most of these are simply diverting the flood route to other parts of the island, we still have a deeply rooted plumbing issue that is unsolved and dates back to our Dutch colonial era from the 40s, dumpage and blockage problem, island reclamations that disregards rising sea level issues.
The climate is changing, why aren't we?
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- El