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Welcome to Ludum Dare 20!
Hi everybody!
It’s just about time for the big two-oh, kicking off our 9th year with the first event of 2011!
2010 was an amazing year for Ludum Dare, with over 800 games created by the community! We’re always optimistic, but have extremely high hopes for 2011! Will we break 1000?
Last year we introduced the October Challenge, a special event that saw 24 people not only finish, but bring games to market (app stores, sponsorship, shareware, donationware, etc). That’ll be back again this October, so stay tuned for that. But we know some people that just couldn’t wait! 1 Month Game started by Sophie Houlden is a shared blog community for those that are up to the challenge. Check it out! And speaking of community, #ScreenshotSaturday is a twitter phenomenon spearheaded by Pekuja that has exploded! Check out the latest images at ScreenshotSaturday.com. And if you’ve ever been curious what the community is up to in addition to Ludum Dare, we have Planet Ludum Dare.
Of course, we can’t forget the Jam at GDC. This past March, on the final day of the Game Developers Conference, several of us attendees met-up at the Noisebridge hacker-space in San Francisco to “hack”. Here’s some photos from the gathering:
Extra special thanks to Terry for suggesting the venue. We hope to see more of you next year.
That’s enough reminiscing. Time to get down to business.
Ludum Dare 20 Keynote, with Sos
Hey cool guy, it’s keynote time!!
This keynote is brought to you by Sos, our first non-admin to do a keynote. Check it out, I think it turned out really great.
That’s all for now. Good luck, and we hope you make something great this weekend.
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Whoop… best keynote evar… evar evar… and yes we all are ninja game squads owning oil companies. Man keep these keynotes up
This Keynote was awesome haha. I was going to do it but i felt that because i’m not fully IN then it would be inappropiate to show my face. Next time though.
that, was a pretty sweet keynote video. I’m all fired up, bring on LD20!
That was a fun idea for a keynote. This weekend is going to be oh-some!
Yo Sos,
Very nice job on the keynote!
…and of course all others who contributed.
awesome keynote :3
Oh Sos you silly.
so finally, we know that the more popular pronunciation is! and the winner is
‘loo-dumm dayr’
not the maybe-more-correct-latin
‘ludd-umm dah-ray’
I thought the Latin was meant to be loo-dum dah-ray?
I am happy to hear it. I hated trying to daray it up when I was on camera. Everybody knows we all say “dare” in private anyway. It’s about time it became socially acceptable!
This is awesome, good job putting the keynote together! I was really surprised to see a snippet of my time lapse video in there, lol. I couldn’t decide whether to join the event this time, but I believe the keynote has done it. I’m pumped!
Pure awesome fun. LOVE IT!
Best keynote video for any LD48 ever.
Thanks for all your hard work SoS!
WORD! to that keynote
Lol @ 5:30.
That was great. I’m in.
Darn ninjas.. ¬¬
Excellent keynote SoS! ^^
Bring it on! Good work with the keynote
It’s amazing how “I’m in!” repeated many times can be so uplifting. Thank you!
Awesomeness! …great job Sos!
(I was happy to see the demographic that had age 40 and over participants… lol, unless that demographic is just me?! … I’m a bit of a coding veteran I suppose, at age 41)
Let’s hear it for the old farts! We rule your baby whipper snappers! White hairs FTW!
Don’t feel at all alone in your old fartishness. I’m 38, and I think the majority of Ludum Darers are in their thirties or higher – after all, it is tough to write a game without university programming education, which is also the majority if we take those stats to be roughly correct.
I was blown away with the stats graph and just wonder: where/when did the poll for this come about? I never answered any questions about this – I’m sure I could have helped to push the age and education demographic higher. =)
this keynote made me tear up. way to go Sos.
nice one Sos, great key-note!
Cheers Sos! That was quite a great keynote! Love the 3d map of all the participants. Really inspiring.
I saw my name @ 3:30 ^^
Also: Great keynote!
see me around 5:00 with the happy mac, aww can’t read it. Next time I’ll do ascii art with it so you can at least see what it says.
OH GOD
The Mario dude at the end will haunt my dreams.
THANKS A LOT!
And uh… where did the map thing come from? I’m pretty sure my name is listed in the wrong location. lol
GOOD JOB ON THE KEYNOTE!!!
SEE YOU SUCKAZ ON THE BATTLEFIELD!
Excellent key note. :’)
I just hope I can finish this time around.
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Yeah, Deffinitely my fav keynote.
Thanks everyone I’m glad you liked it
Totally loved the note. Good work dude.
Haha, fun seeing my name, all by myself in the middle of the pacific!
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