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And that was Ludum Dare 20
Posted by PoV (twitter: @mikekasprzak)
May 2nd, 2011 8:19 pm
Wow!
Another record setting event. By the deadline, we had 352 entries (289 Compo, 63 Jam). Pat yourselves on the back everyone, you just participated in something incredible. It blows my mind how much Ludum Dare continues to grow every time we run one. Thank you everyone for being so awesome!
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Thanks everyone for participating in Ludum Dare 20!
Be sure you come back and rate some games!
Lovely mr. PoV! we keep bursting record each time!
*pat pat*
GAWD
It’s only gonna get harder to vote on all these games… and so many games are gonna be skimmed over.
I keep seeing a trend of 3 or 4 games getting 20 – 60 votes within 48 hours after the compo while others sit at 0 – 3.
Unfortunately thats true.. we should really stick to rate thoose games we where given to rate..
Oh, is that what the short list of 20 or so games on my Rate Games page is? I thought that was just the first 20 – is it generated differently for each contestant to ensure everyone gets rated? There’s not a lot of info on the ratings procedure…
I’m rating as many as I can, but 12/day for 3 weeks is quite a tall order…
Yes, it’s different for every person.
How do you know how many votes a game gets?
UGH I sound like a whiny baby.
I meant to say HOLY CRAP THAT’S AWESOME! SO MANY SUBMISSIONS!
Ludum Dare is amazing!
Nice recovery ^_^
I do agree, though, a lot of games seem to get lost aside a little. That said, let’s all work to get the highest coolness ratings that we can. Think this could be the first Ludum Dare where EVERYBODY GETS 100% COOLNESS? I DO!!!
Anyway, excellent Dare everybody, thanks again PoV for a good show
I usually get 100% coolness, but I don’t expect to EVER see everyone reach that, as not everyone can run every game… and then you have the guys that leave no journal posts and probably never rate a single game. I’m also not up for the idea of FORCING people to vote, because you’re just gonna end up with people rushing through things just to ‘qualify’. I’d rather leave it like it is… so those that wanna play and rate get recognition.
I worry that ‘coolness’ encourages some people to rush instead of leaving a smaller number of more thoughtful ratings and useful comments.
I would actually prefer it if ‘coolness’ came from giving great feedback. To me, that’s what the community is about.
Perhaps coolness should come from a game’s author clicking ‘I like this’ on your comments about their game.
Wouldn’t that just encourage fawning positive feedback, rather than honest constructive criticism?
Kind of – you get to choose the kind of feedback you want. If you only want fawning reviews, you could say “Don’t be mean or I won’t upvote you” in your game’s description.
But I personally would write “I’m keen to improve, so please leave observations, criticisms, and encouragements!”
I think the admins should pat themselves on the back as well.
It takes good organizing for something like this to happen.
It grows at the pace it does, because it’s great.
Good job!
[...] Ludum Dare 20 was a resounding success. In a mere 48 hours there were 352 games submitted from the roughly 700 who entered the contest. For those of you with the enthusiasm, stamina, mettle, stickwithitness and sheer leet haxxor hardcore skills to stick with your project to get to the finish line, we salute you! [...]
[...] Ludum Dare 20 was a resounding success. In a mere 48 hours there were 352 games submitted from the roughly 700 who entered the contest. For those of you with the enthusiasm, stamina, mettle, stickwithitness and sheer leet haxxor hardcore skills to stick with your project to get to the finish line, we salute you! [...]
This was my first (not mini) LD and it was great, but there is 1 thing I would really appreciate for next time: some option to take hosting the game off my hands.
if dropbox is available to you, it makes a pretty quick, easy and free solution for hosting. You can also host your game through github, which is free so long as you opensource it. That solution requires slightly more technical wizardry, so if you havn’t done it before you might want to test it out first.
My apologies if this has been answered before, but why isn’t there separate voting for jam entries?
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