Jenova Chen, co-creator of Flow

Flow is a video game created by Jenova Chen (pictured) and Nicholas Clark. Released as a Flash game in 2006 to accompany Chen's master's thesis, it was reworked into a PlayStation 3 game by Thatgamecompany, with assistance from Santa Monica Studio. In Flow, the player navigates a series of two-dimensional planes with an aquatic microorganism that evolves by consuming other microorganisms. The game's design is based on Chen's research into dynamic difficulty adjustment and on Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's theoretical concept of flow. The Flash version of the game was downloaded 100,000 times within its first two weeks of release, and had been played more than 3.5 million times by 2008. Its PlayStation 3 re-release was the most downloaded game on the PlayStation Network in 2007 and won the Best Downloadable Game award at the 2008 Game Developers Choice Awards. Reviewers praised Flow's visual and audio appeal, but noted the simplicity of its gameplay; several considered it to be more of an art piece than a game. (Full article...)

Map of reclaimed land in Macau

• ... that land reclamation in Macau (map pictured) has increased available land threefold?
• ... that Jenna Meek once decorated Love Island contestants with glitter?
• ... that the fan-made Pokémon games Pokémon Uranium and Pokémon Prism were in development for nine and eight years respectively?
• ... that Kenneth Chen joked about contesting the 1988 Singaporean general election—then actually did?
• ... that the film Chatô, o Rei do Brasil took twenty years to be released due to a scandal involving the mismanagement of public funds?
• ... that a professional football stadium was named after Ivor Wynne, even though he was known for amateur sports?
• ... that a popular song has been used by Apple, the White House, an MLB stadium, and a Disney film?
• ... that Shinichi Fukuda spent thirteen hours watching the first two episodes of her manga My Dress-Up Darling's adaptation on repeat?
• ... that George Washington is an American in Paris?

Péter Magyar

• The Tisza Party, led by Péter Magyar (pictured), wins the Hungarian parliamentary election, ending sixteen years of rule by Viktor Orbán's Fidesz.
• The emperor penguin is declared an endangered species by the IUCN due to the effects of climate change.
• Israeli attacks on Lebanon kill at least 357 people, hours after a ceasefire is announced in the region.
• NASA's Artemis II lands in the Pacific Ocean, completing its crewed lunar flyby mission.

April 14: Tamil New Year and other New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asia; Day of the Georgian Language (1978)

Apollo 13 mission patch

• 966 – Mieszko I, the ruler of Poland, converted to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
• 1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Yorkists under Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of Barnet, killing Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.
• 1970 – After an oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 (mission patch pictured) exploded, disabling the spacecraft's electrical and life-support systems, astronaut Jack Swigert reported: "Houston, we've had a problem here".
• 2015 – Western Kentucky University announced a five-year suspension of their swimming and diving programs as a result of a hazing scandal.