Spanish indie dev Super Mega Team affected by the massive flood in Valencia

[Yurinka]

As you may have seen in the news, there has been a massive flood in Spain that killed/will kill thousands of people (the authorities are hiding the real numbers and there are zones with no help from authorities) and destroyed entire cities and towns. Due to retarted politicians still fighting each other instead of working together to help the people asap, there are towns that almost a week later are still isolated and incomunicated, still waiting for help.

After days rejecting help offered by other countries and regions of Spain due to some stupid reason, politicians are starting to send some help -not much- now. Meanwhile, citizens are very angry seeing the military and rescue teams aren't almost deployed and have been self organizing to massively send help by their own means.

It looks like Racoon City, but these photos are from Paiporta, a town where a beloved and very talented small Spanish indie dev team (as I remember just 3 people) lives. They didn't ask for help, but they need it, this is where a couple of them live:


They make very beautiful 2D indie games with great visuals and soundtrack. You can support them by buying their games: The Knight Witch (published by Team 17 in 2022, available on PS5, Switch, Xbox, Steam)


Rise & Shine (published by Adult Swim in 2017, avilable on PS4, Steam, Xbox and Switch):

Supermagical (2012, PS3, PS Vita, Steam, iOS):

In the past they did earlier games like Pro Zombie Soccer, and even before at least one of them (the guy who talks in the video seems to be their CEO/art director) did work on the original Plants vs Zombies or in some Worms game.

They also did help on the cool Moonlighter (published by 11 bit in 2018, available in PS4, XBO, Switch, Steam, Mac, iOS, Android), a game made by a nearby new team:

P.S.: Apparently it helps them more if you get Supermagical or Rise & Shine, I assume they get a higher revenue share from them.

 

[riesgoyfortuna]

its a fucking disaster ,one of my best friends its a firefighter from malaga and he is telling me there is a lot of corpses on the cars everywhere

 

[Yurinka]

its a fucking disaster ,one of my best friends its a firefighter from malaga and he is telling me there is a lot of corpses on the cars everywhere

Yes. As I remember, around 450,000 people live in the affected cities and towns.

And this happened at around 18:30-19:00 (the regional government didn't sent the alerts until over an hour AFTER that), when many people were going back from work, leaving the nearby big city Valencia to go to their home in other cities and towns of the region. So the flood also took part of these cars who were in the roads going to the highways etc.

Plus also affected big malls and industrial area where many people were too.

In several of these towns many people did use their parking place/basement (located under the houses) as sitting room for the free time. And a lot of them continue covered with water with dead people inside.

Most of these entire cities/towns/neighborhoods still are without electricity, water, internet, phone coverage, some even blocked with streets or roads destroyed or blocked by tons of cars, trucks or mud.

In the tv they show people of the Red Cross or the Army in nice videos or pictures and only talk about just around 200 dead and around 2000 missing people, but most of the towns as of yesterday only had a few policemen or firefighters from nearby cities (some going there unoficially/in vacations) or towns and a handful units of the UME (Emergency Unit of the Army) for the whole town. Several of the policemen (local or Guardia Civil) died during the flood and/or their cars were destroyed.

And well, people (99.99% civilians, not proffesionals) removing bodies mention they got even way more than in the official numbers, and know that there are way more to be recovered.

Meanwhile during days people from the military, policemen, rescue units, psychologists etc. have been asking during days to get the greenlight to be moved there and the regional government didn't allow it. Governments from France, Ecuador, Argentina, Ukraine! and even fucking Hamas offered help to send there rescue units, firefighters, material etc. and the national government rejected the help.

Seeing that the government wasn't (isn't, because some towns still received zero help from the governments) doing anything, civilian people started to massively mobilize themselves and now tons of people from all regions from Spain are sending food, water, drugs, clothes, shovels etc. and going there to help.