Welcome to the new ludumdare dot com.

It’s a lot like the old site, but it feels newer to us.

Migration of the old site is complete. Phil did a great job getting that rolling, and now we’re hanging out here in the new shindig.

URL’s pointing to Phil’s hosting automatically forward here to the new site. I suspect Phil may leave that up for a while, but if you’ve previously linked the imitationpickles site, you really should update your links.

There’s still a few broken links throughout the site. We’ll be working to correct these as they come up. If you find something not working, do let us know.

New to the site, we’ve now isolated the syndicated blogs to it’s own section of the site. Planet Ludum.

http://www.ludumdare.com/planet/

Also new to the site, something I’ve been working on for the bulk of the day. The Ludum Dare website hub.

http://www.ludumdare.com

It’s still a work in progress, but it gives you an idea of where we’re going with things. Eventually we’ll better integrate all the parts of site navigation. For the time being, you can start at the hub and get where you need to be.

The hub also features a Ludum Dare headlines feed. This is an RSS feed that you can add to your RSS readers to keep up on whats happening in the world of Ludum Dare. I’ll be passing this user account (news) to the other admins, so we can have a consistent stream of what’s going on.

If you have some Ludum Dare related news you think the community should hear about, let us know. If you’ve released a commercial remake of one of your Ludum Dare games, got it featured on a magazine coverdisk, or anything really interesting above and beyond the 48, we’d be glad to share it.

I especially want to thank everyone that’s donated towards our hosting costs. The donor’s list will become part of the about page, once that’s finished. That should be up soon.

For those that haven’t got around to it yet, we’re still accepting donations, and should continue to here on in.

Donate to Ludum Dare (PayPal)

Don’t know why we’re taking donations? Check out the “State of teh Union” post.

I’ll try not to be too annoying with the donation requests. The administration is more than willing to keep things afloat, but we welcome the community’s support.

There’s still much work to be done, and compos to be planned.

Thanks everyone for sticking with us.

- Mike Kasprzak (PoV)

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