ToJam vs. Ludum Dare
I received this charming e-mail today.
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Jim McGinley wrote:
Subject: TOJam #5 – April 23 to April 25Registrations >just< went live.
Makes Ludum feel like Dulum.
>BURN<
Funny, those dates seem awfully familiar.
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Mike Kasprzak wrote:
No worries. We think it’s cute that you guys are doing your compo on
the same weekend. Our 100+ entrants wish you the best.
It continues…
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Jim McGinley wrote:
I see your 100+ entrants and raise you 60 (hopefully)
Does physical presence result in better games?
We’re about to find out.
I believe it is ON.
Oh yes!
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Mike Kasprzak wrote:
Oh yes sir, it’s on!
For those keeping score, our last 3 compos we did 123 entries (April), 144 entries (August), and 121 entries (December).
Ladies and gentlemen, I think you know what you have to do. 
And just so it’s clear, Jim and I are friends. But as a friend, I feel it’s my duty to totally run a bigger and better compo. LD community, this is a call to arms! Take no prisoners!
ON? As in Toronto, ON? As in, Toronto, Ontario? Yes, I believe Toronto is in Ontario.
As the MFing psycho Ice Cube said…
ONCE AGAIN IT’S ON.
Well, this will make things interesting.
Greetings Fools!
It is I, public enemy #1 Jim McGinley, organizer of TOJam.
If that cretin PoV is to be believed, we’ve already lost on quantity.
What we do have is quality.
We need to pit the top TOJam game (voted by the People at TOJam Arcade)
against the top Ludum Dare 16 (voted by you forum inbreeders).
Not sure who would judge. Mike & I don’t seem like the best choices.
I see you chose to repurpose a theme already explored (see what I did there)
Jay Is Games: 6th Casual Gameplay Design Competition
Theme: Explore
http://jayisgames.com/cgdc6/
Good luck beating Small Worlds
(my unfinished entry ‘All Ears’ failed miserably)
For the record, we didn’t mean to overlap with Ludum Dare.
It was a happy accident.
Forget everything I said about the recently passed Ludum Dare 16.
(everything except your lack of imagination).
I >meant< Ludum Dare 17
My Theme Suggestion: Suck
Oh god.
Oh man! Mike too!? This is getting intense!
The particles will fly… the bytes will flow… and one compo will emerge victorious!
Actually, if there’s 2 compos going on on the same weekend, it’d be really sweet if the same theme (and similar rules) were used for both…
ToJam tends to allow teams, so we might be at a slight (theoretical) per-entry manpower disadvantage. Also we have our theme selection thing, and they start sooner than us.
I am in!
Do we have an unfair advantage?
It seems weird that a physical jam would pick a fight with LD, but hey, let’s see what happens. I like his enthusiasm.
If you knew Jim you’d understand.
But really, it’s just a scheduling conflict. And why not play up the conflict part? A friendly little rivalry should be good for both competitions.
I wonder how hard it was not to say “it’s on… like donkey kong.”
It was apparently too hard
What started as a mere scheduling conflict has boiled out of the pot and onto the stove.
Everyone must choose a side. There can be only one.
You are the Matrix, we are the real world.
You have Neo, we have a blind Keanu Reeves.
New Theme Suggestion: Suffering
It’s on… like donkey kong.
PoV > INsolent Whelp! How DARE you try to recruit Eric McQuiggan!
PoV, the man too lazy to drive to Toronto in his fancy new Intel car has no shame.
Uh, who cares? I think it’s safe to assume that more than 99% of LDers are not in Toronto, there is no conflict at all.
Who cares!?
WHO CARES!?
Codexus, how I WISH I could see the world using your innocent, naive eyes.
On the surface, this appears to be nothing more than an accidental date conflict
that pits a gorgeous physical jam against a grotesque virtual circus.
However, brewing underneath are years of unchecked aggression, character assassination and bad blood.
Me? I’d rather NOT live in a world of hoodlums, liars and horse thieves.
I’d rather attend the Toronto Game Jam.
You don’t want to live in it, but you want to attend it? I don’t understand.
Es tu, Hamumu? ES TU!?
Si, es yo!
smash then !
i think you meant “smash them !”
i feel like John Galt helping his tormentor fix the electroshock device…