Events like Ludum Dare
Posted by johnfn (twitter: @thedayturns)
August 31st, 2011 6:53 pm
Let’s make a big list of events like Ludum Dare – game compos, 48 hour compos, cool events, whatever. We all know Ludum Dare is awesome, so events like it must be awesome too!
Some events I’m aware of:
- http://pyweek.org/ : Pyweek. Inspired by Ludum Dare! (Yay!) A week long contest to make a game, but only in Python. Which is kind of a shame if you don’t use Python, but Python is a great language so you should definitely learn it. Has an event coming up in the next week or two.
- http://www.superfriendshipclub.com/ : Holds month long game “pageants” every two months.
- http://gameprototypechallenge.com/ : Week long contest to prototype a game.
- http://experimentalgameplay.com/ : Month long competition based on a theme.
Let me know of more! I’ll update this post.
Wow, amazing timing! Great minds think alike and all.
I am looking at perhaps entering this one in September…
http://experimentalgameplay.com/
I hope the mini-ld has the same theme or a related theme to experimental gameplay, it would be awesome to start a small nugget of inspiration here, then expand it
The Kongregate Programming Forums irregularly hold GiTD (Game in Ten (sometimes Three) Days) competitions. It’s mainly for Flash entries though.
http://www.kongregate.com/forums/4-programming
Hey, I actually registered indiegamecalendar.com ages ago to list events like that. But I’ve never got round to doing anything with it. If anyone can help get a full list of events and dates, maybe we can put something up?
There’s also the contests I used to organise but we haven’t had one for over a year now.
- Work alone; no teams.
- 9 days = two weekends plus the five days (evenings) inbetween. Contestants are encouraged to give a progress report at the end of each day.
- All content must be made yourself. Code must be newly written for the contest, but you can use graphics and sounds you’ve made previously.
- Either a genre or a theme is specified.
- Any language/game-making tool is okay, but you’ll be judged on the work you’ve done yourself. You can’t take credit for what a game-making tool does for you.
A while ago I was working on a project that was very similar to Chinchilla’s indiegamecalendar.com, and this is what I got done: http://i.imgur.com/E7usJ.png
It’s been a couple of months since I last was working on it but I’m still interested in finishing it.
That looks osom, but i would make the timeline bigger and the post smaller, also it would be awesome to add comments like soundcloud comments