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Ludum Dare 20 – April 29th-May 2nd Weekend
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March 9th, 2011 8:52 pm
Like the topic says, Ludum Dare 20 is coming the final weekend of April (29th+)… and for the first time, crosses slightly in to May (PoV scheduled himself too much work early April… bad PoV… also Easter).
Watch the clock at the top of the site for your local start time, and hit up the rules page if you’re new to Ludum Dare. See y’all soon!
“April? that’s in no time at all! yay!”
*looks at countdown*
>50 days
oh boy
Hmm, I guess we’ll just have to wait.
*keep staring at the countdown*
April 29th to May 2nd is Friday to Monday (i.e. 72 hours). Is that right?
That’s for the Jam, yes.
This is no good
Can’t it be sooner?
The prior weekend is Easter weekend, a holiday involving many family gatherings in North America (at least). It was almost going to be mid April, but looking at my own schedule, I have just too much stuff hitting due dates in early/mid April, that late April just seemed the safest time to do it for me. Sorry!
But I go on holiday on te 27th of april and come back on the 4th of may D:
Damnit, my hopes of putting out a decent ludum dare entry are shattered. :/ …I’ll just do my own ludum dare the weekend after I get back, crying all the while.
50 days is just enough time to build a non-sucky framework and concoct excuses for ditching work and girlfriend on those dates; works for me.
Finally, one I have free time for!! This time I may actually use my own tech I’ve been developing instead of writing it from scratch. Now to use my time before the competition to make it work on PC and Mac!
It’s gonna be my first official Ludum Dare entry! Im very eager for this!
I’ve been tasting some MiniLD’s and it all seems so cool!
Let’s do it people! :B
Looking forward to this, definitely! It comes right after the end of my college semester, and it’ll be a great way to start the summer!
This will be my first ludum dare as a father, so I’m not sure what kind of time I’ll get in on it, but it will be something!
That makes two of us
(also my first LD as an anything, but also father).
Hi,
How does one ‘sign up’ for this event?
elbowroom
There is no official sign up required.
People sometimes like to make a blog post to tell the world they are participating during the week before the compo but that’s optional.
The only thing you need is an account on this site (which I guess you already have since you posted) so that when your game is done you’ll be able to submit it.
Aw man, the start of May!? That’s exam season dude!
Not for everyone. Exams at my college end on April 28.
yeah… i was really looking forward to doing this for the first time ever but that’s exactly when exams are and big projects are due.
same here, exam starts on April 29. But hey, who cares, right?
I’m rooting for voxels. After the huge splash Minecraft has made, and the up and coming game Ace of Spades, I think there is a lot of room for interesting games that use voxel engines!
That seems like too much of a “technology restriction” like 4-bit color or something. If you like voxels (and really, who doesn’t?) you can use a voxel engine for any theme. There were two entries last time that used point-sprite renderers (Sos and Notch), which are voxel-like.
Whereas if the game required one, we’d probably lose 90% of the participants. I don’t think I could get a voxel engine running in 48 hours, let alone built a game on top of it.
Hi,
When does the theme voting thing start or is the topic selected by someone?
Thanks.
Week before the compo.
The themes voting things starts about 168 hours before the compo (Give or take a few) and we’re given four rounds with lots of themes that we can either vote +1 (Like), -1 (Don’t Like), or 0 (Meh). The fifth round has the winners from the first four and usually a joke theme or two thrown in by the good folks running the show.
[...] companion and rising. I’m planning to make a little game for that, and then soon after that Ludum Dare 20 is here! Besides those compos I have a little game project that I hope to finish before LD20. [...]
If you need help sorting through the themes let me know. I have alot of free time this week.
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