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Planning a local Ludum Dare 19 Gathering?
Definitely one of the cooler things that have cropped up lately are the gatherings during Ludum Dare events (Cambridge Indies, you guys rock). We definitely want to encourage more of you to do this.
So to help facilitate that, go add yourself to the map.
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/world-map/
If you see many people near you, it might be worth trying to organize something. This could easily get out of hand, so post a reply ONLY if you see some people near you. Try to include a list of nearby larger cities, so to make searching for your proposed event easier. If you’ve found a few people and are ready to start discussing a venue, start new topic and I’ll link it up here.
Or if anybody has a better way to randomly organize many little gatherings (with almost no effort from me), let me know. 
Heh it seems I am all alone here
This is a great idea
We’ll hopefully be having another meetup in Cambridge for next month’s LD.
One small problem I see with the map is that it seems to clump people together if you just give City, Country as your location, so it’s difficult to tell how many people are actually active in a given area unless you enter a more specific address. Wonder if there’s anything we can do about that? Maybe a text version of the map or something?
I think I would be much more likely to actually finish an LD entry if there were a meatspace element to the compo!
According to the map, we are THREE in Spain. I hope more people join us…
Seems to be 3 in the Nottingham Derby area, if we get a couple more popping up might plan a meet up
I may just need to figure out the easiest way from Leamington to Cambridge. Would love to do this but theres only 1 person near me (so far).
I investigated Leamington->Cambridge by train a while back. Isn’t really practical is it?… and driving would mean no beer/costly parking…
Leamington really needs it’s own version of Cambridge Indies!
With all the studios around here, surely there’s got to be a lot of indies/wannabe-indies in the area?
I went to Warwick Uni where you’ve got the student society Warwick Game Design. I’m still involved vaguely with them but they haven’t organised anything for LD in the past: I think it tends to be outside of term dates.
But in any case, their contact details are here: http://warwickgamedesign.co.uk/contact Worth talking to them if you want to organise any indie events in Leamington/Coventry
There is also a Blitz-organised IGDA event happening Thurs 9th Dec, it’s meant to be focusing on indie developers. Don’t know if any of them are local or not though.
I rather dissapointingly seem to be the only Northern Irish participant. Either way, I’m holding an event that weekend with a group of other programmers, gamers, hackers and tinkerers. Its a 24 hour lock-in style event that encompasses the passions of all the aforementioned. Everyone’s welcome if there are any travelling folk in the Belfast area that weekend
Newb help required: How come when I click on someone else’s name on the map, it takes me to their profile:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/author/USER/
but when I click on my own name on the map (i.e. USER=tartley) my profile page simply reads ‘Not found’, with a search box?
I’ve create an LD *Wordpress* profile, but evidently that’s not what’s required. Any clues?
Your page only exists once you’ve made a single post.
Ahar! Thanks.
Hmm… four of us in south vancouver island.
Victoria, Canada – one of the best places in the world to live! BTW did you know that there is a meetup group with 50+ indie game developers all located in Victoria? You should sign up! From time to time we get together and drink beer. http://www.meetup.com/thevdevs/
I was briefly excited until I realised you were talking about completely the wrong Victoria. I don’t suppose anyone is organising a Melbourne, Australia meet up or has ideas on how to do so?
Not that I can legally drink that stuff, but it sounds good anyways!
I’d love to do a Finnish and/or Nordic and/or European meetup.
I’m so envious of Cambridge Indies. ;__;
Copenhagen?
Ah, i would really like to have a Finnish LD gathering also. Unfortunately im not in Finland when 19th compo starts but i’ll definitely come if someone starts to organize small gatherings here. I can also start one here but i don’t really know if anyone is actually interested to come this north haha.
Yep that would be great. I agree. Totally!
Hey Portland! Any chance of a meetup here?
And by Portland I mean Portland, OR.
hello guys … anyone in cambridge MA or Boston? if so then lets plan a meeting :0
We might have another meetup in Portsmouth, NH. Pretty close and worth the drive!
I would love to come but dude thats far away and I don’t have a car… unless the T goes there … Let me check!!!
2 people meeting up in *Northern Virginia* at my apartment, but if more get involved who knows! Interested?
I noticed a few people in Allen/Plano Texas area. Interested in meeting up Saturday morning at Market Street in Allen?
It’s probably too late to organize this, but I’m in Cupertino, I see one person in what appears to be Foster City, one in Sunnyvale, a few in Oakland, someone up against the hills in…Fremont, I guess? and one person down in Alum Rock.
Bay Area meetup, anyone?
I’m the one in Fremont, but I’m not really mobile. No laptop here.
I’m in Berkeley, but I won’t be able to make a meet up. Great idea though, hopefully it will happen one of these days.
Maybe sometime during the week, we could have a victory (and/or consolation) toast somewhere central? Dave & Busters in Milpitas has that dinner-and-game-card thing on weeknights.
I’m in Oakland, and I’m up for a meetup. It seems like there are a lot of developers in the area, I know a handful and I keep finding out about more…