Hi! Everyone. 5th May we celebrate the Diversity day. A day about celebrate the thousands of cultures ans languages that extend worldwide.
So I thought that a comunity as diverse as this needed an event that let everyone express on their native language or in a culture or language they are learning or has some ancestry from it.
Even if you are English native, there could be a language you have skills for or want to learn. This can be a encouragement to try and learn something new.
Any language except English
Jam's prompt theme
And as for the prompt, few topics are more universal than the fable and the folk tale. Oral transmission from which most cultures are born.
An elder, a wise person telling stories to children in the heat of a bonfire. It can be from any culture, race, or era. Even today it happens in summer camps or with parents reading to their children before bed.
So, imagine someone reading a story to a kid or children. Thatâs the topic.
What is it, what era or what culture⌠That is open to the writerâs interpretation.
A quick question about the theme, does the campfire-setting need to happen in-story, or is it so that the story simply needs to be one that could be told in that kind of situation? Does it need to be an actual folk story, or does a fairy tale inspired by folk stories count?
It can be your native or not. I am trying to encourage English natives to try another language. There are lot of good learning free apps and I am sure that people from those communities that can help.
Of course as I said any story you can tell to kids. Semi historic and founders stories are really big part of myths and folklore. It can also be religious like gods and spirits.
Oral folklore includes a little unknown blind Man call Homer Odissey lol. Or The Cid in Spanish folk etcâŚ
This is very exciting! Thank you so much for creating this jam, Mara. Iâm looking forward to seeing the stories people will share!
I love the theme, too; sharing stories with others is a wonderful â even essential â way of building community together and sharing culture.
Time permitting, @Falingard and I are going to work on a short piece in French, their first language and a language thatâs now part of my daily life. Weâre already having a lot of fun brainstorming together. Merci pour lâinspiration!
@Cecilia_Rosewood I read your jam entry. I liked it. I think you captured the way of talking between an adult and children very well. The story of Kenau is also one to be told. Certainly because being called a kenau became a derogative, while its based on a woman that was willing to fight for her city. Lotâs of rather misogynistic words and verses are left in our language, without people realising it (for example âdaar was laatst een meisje loosâ).
You donât get to say âDiversityâ and âall culturesâ while excluding the language of 1/5th of the world and the cultures of 500 million people.
Iâm not sure how viable learning a whole language in a month to write a game is. Iâve been learning german with duolingo for a year now (and was taught the basics back in school too), and I wouldnât say Iâm at a level to write an interesting story.
But I suppose some people are really quick learners, and mileage might vary about how fluent someone has to be to feel confident in using a language.
I donât think I have time or energy to participate, so it doesnât really matter, but if I wrote a game in danish there would be, what, 5? people in the intere IF community, who would understand it?
We can always use translators to understand it, we may not get to a point in which we could correct something in said languages, but at least we could get what you mean across.
All games have to be in English to be published. All jams are in English, all WIPs are in English. Absolutely everything is on it.
Everything
Diversity includes the concept of promoting minorities to be heard, to learn about others, and to be close to others.
I am Spanish, but I am also from a minority culturally and idiomatically. I am Galician, and I speak Galician.
I can appreciate the fact that I can show my culture and language even if we are only 8 million speakers.
English is a big language that EVERYONE here in this forum loves and appreciates.
However, I think that for once, after more than eleven years, it is time for us non-natives to showcase our folklore, or for natives to experiment and try something new.
