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Real World Ludum Dare 25 Gatherings
Posted by PoV (twitter: @mikekasprzak)
November 13th, 2012 9:10 am
While Ludum Dare is traditionally an online event (make a game from the comfort of your home), many real world happen around Ludum Dare. Currently we are up to 21 gatherings:
- United Kingdom, London — Google Campus, hosted by Preloaded
- Scotland, Aberdeen — Kings College Campus at the University of Aberdeen
- Austria, Vienna — Metalab Vienna
- Sweden, Stockholm — Goo Technologies
- California, Los Angelis — Crash Space
- Virginia, Richmond — RVA Game Jams at 804 RVA
- Russia, Omsk — Old48
- California, Oakland — Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (Venue) Please RSVP jbell9!
Sweden, Borås –- InnovationLabCancelled
- Austria, Linz — bb15
- United Kingdom, Coventry — University of Warwick
- Ohio, Cleveland — Shaker LaunchHouse
- Florida, Bonifay — TBD (Please RSVP)
- Turkey, Ankara — CClub @ Middle East Technical University
- Ontario, Kitchener — Kwartzlab Hacker Space
- Japan, Tokyo — Pico Pico Cafe/Lexaloffle HQ
- Russia, Saint-Petersburg –- http://vk.com/ld25spb
- Australia, Adelaide — University of Adelaide
- France, Strasbourg — La Plague Digitale
- Norway, Oslo — Bitraf
- France, Bordeaux — more
- France, Montpellier — Université Montpellier 2
Post a comment letting me know where an event is, include a link to further details, and I’ll add it to the list.
I’m most likely going to host one in Minnesota. Not sure where yet, I’ll keep you updated.
If you do one, let me know. I am also from Minnesota.
Once again, we shall meet at our company, Motion Twin in Bordeaux, France. I still need few confirmations to announce any free spot, I will keep you updated too
There will be a gathering at the Kings College Campus, University of Aberdeen, Scotland organised by the Aberdeen University Computing Science Society. Details as they are available at: http://aucs.co/events/ld25.php including link to contact information.
Here’s Vienna, Austria: https://metalab.at/wiki/Super_Gamedev_Weekend
And if I find a few people to join me and a location also in Linz, Austria.
Stockholm, Sweden: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGNtejRPWFN6czdnYzhoVVo3eThRS1E6MQ
wish I could join you
I live somewhere far away in another corner of sweden
hope you have a really full, fun time
There will be a gathering for the theme announcement at Crashspace in Los Angeles, and the space will be full of participants all weekend:
http://blog.crashspace.org/2012/11/ludum-dare-25-kickoff-event-december-14th-6pm/
I am planning on hosting a little something in or around Bonifay, Fl, or if more people are located in Panama City, FL area, I may try to host it down there. I just need to find out if there are any LD members around this area. Bonifay is about an hour south of Dothan, AL; hour north of Panama City, FL, and Panama City Beach, FL. Almost two hours west of Tallahassee, FL, and almost two hours east of Pensacola. So is there anyone within reasonable distance to either Bonifay or Panama City? If there is some interest I will go ahead and make sure I have a building available for x amount of people.
-Digital Maniac / Michael Ward
There will be an LD25 gathering in Richmond, Virginia. Go to http://www.rvagamejams.com for details.
Anything around Helsinki? Come on finns, I’m newbie here!
Anyone in Belgium up for a pre-drink or a post-drink?
Could be interesting to me.
I’m ~20km south of Brussels, near Louvain-la-Neuve, how about you ?
Anyone else up for it ?
I’m from Ghent. Louvain-la-Neuve is a bit too far for both of us to just go and have a drink =/
Ah well, yeah, indeed ^^;
Well, glad to know of another belgian taking part in this. Good luck with your game, and who knows, maybe in some future edition there will be a bigger gathering in Belgium…
Hey there, me and my coder are from Ghent. A pre-drink won’t be possible I think, but I’m up for a post-drink here in Ghent!
LD25 Gathering in Omsk, Russia:
http://old48.com/
Awww, man, the London one is already filled up.
Hopefully there will be more in the UK that aren’t more than several hours from where I am (sorry Aberdeen
).
We will do something in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Where in Copenhagen will this be? We are a couple of guys from Lyngbys Tekniske Gymnasium looking for a location to do some jammin’
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (themade.org), in Oakland, CA (just across the bay from San Francisco!) will be hosting a real-world gathering. It’s not on the schedule yet, and it’s quite likely we won’t get to run rampant there at all hours (ie, you will have to leave at night), but something will happen there.
Also, to all gamers in the bay area, if you haven’t checked out the Made, you should. More dork history crammed in to one space than you’ll ever find anywhere else. They’ve got all sorts of systems from all sorts of eras from the ColecoVision to the NES to modern (but not exactly this year modern) systems – but here is the kicker – they have things that WORK! Yes, their ColecoVision, their Atari, their NeoGeo works. Amazing but true. Go visit them during visiting hours (which is usually Saturday and Sunday but go see their webpage for exact details).
I’m hosting one at:
Sweden, Borås – InnovationLab
Info: http://skoggy.se/info_pages/1
one more:
austria, linz
by devlol
http://www.devlol.org/projekte/aktiv/danubian-super-gamedev-weekend
hosted at the bb15
http://bb15.at
Coventry, UK:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/12/01/ld25-meetup-coventry-uk/
Cleveland Game Developers in Cleveland, OH will be organizing a meetup for our LD25:
http://www.meetup.com/clevelandgamedev/events/93853572/
Unfortunately the gathering in Borås, Sweden is cancelled.
More info:
http://skoggy.se/info_pages/1
Bonifay, FL is on will have a comment up tomorrow with a link to the details.
Contact Page for the Bonifay, FL Meetup. More information will be added as the week progresses. Here is the link: http://bonifaygamedevs.x10.mx/index.php/ld-25-meetup
Hi all!
We will be organizing a gathering for LD25 as CClub of Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
Contact: You can contact me or send an e-mail via the CClub web page.
More Info: http://www.cclub.metu.edu.tr/etkinlik?id=78
Kwartzlab, a HackerSpace in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada will be hosting a gathering.
I don’t think anything will be provided but space, power, wifi, and company.
See http://www.kwartzlab.ca/events/
Hi guys,
I noticed you put the link for MADE to the comment I posted. It would be awesome if you could link it to http://themade.org where you can find more information about the space (importantly, how to get there). We are still sorting out the scheduling but we have the space for large amounts of time on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (note that Sat/Sun are MADE’s open hours so random people may come and go). I expect the calendar will reflect the event tomorrow.
However, the real reason I came back to comment is that it would be awesome if you would email me at jbell(insertthenumeralfor nine here)@ gmail.com and let me know if you are coming! While I have a guess of how many people will show up, it would be nice if I have a better estimate so I can plan accordingly.
Thanks!
Awesome that the MADE is hosting a meetup! I’ll be sure to email you, but I (Cake) plan on possibly stopping by for a bit to get work done. I imagine you guys aren’t opposed to having me skype-work with my partner?
Skyping with a partner should be no problem unless you really distract the rest of us from working.
A facebook event was created for the MADE meetup! http://www.facebook.com/events/101048843399611/
You can RSVP by email, or via facebook, either way.
2 locations in Austria, very cool. Greetings to Linz from San Francisco!
I wish somebody would host one in Pennsylvania!
You could host one? I ran into that problem the past few times I wanted to have some company for the Jam, and decided to host my own this time. It’s a thought.
Tokyo checking in
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/12/06/ld25-venue-tokyo-kichijoji/
Copy that Tokyo, over.
Ludum Dare 25 Spb Gathering
Russia, Saint-Petersburg – http://vk.com/ld25spb
Adelaide, Australia
http://www.jamalaide.org.au/jams/ld-25
And on social networks:
https://plus.google.com/events/cn7dsmni2bgl427ag8gu7gj04p0
http://www.facebook.com/events/305928756175670/
To be clear, that’s hosted by Jamalaide on the campus of the University of Adelaide
If anyone around Denver, Colorado or Boulder, Colorado want to meet up, let me know. My username AT gmail
We’ll be jamming all over the country with CraftStudio but a few of us will be at La Plage Digitale in Strasbourg, France. Feel free to join
http://www.laplagedigitale.eu/
Norway, Oslo:
Once again Bitraf will be hosting a Ludum Dare jam at its venue near Alexander Kiellands plass in Oslo:
http://www.meetup.com/bitraf/events/92721622/
Nothing in The Netherlands? *bummer*
Someone should organize something in Holland
I agree!
As do I!
Anyone in Brussels, Belgium?
I’m a bit south of that, did you have something specific in mind ?
Any indiedevs in the Detroit Michigan area ?
I live in Farmington, MI and plan on driving down to Cleveland, OH meetup for one of the days.
We have 1 or 2 slots in Bordeaux, France ! Contact me : ldbordeaux ..AT.. deepnight ..DOT.. net
We’re a bit late with the ball here but:
Building 16, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France
Gaeel speaks the truth – here’s the university’s press release page about the event (in French only I’m afraid):
http://www.univ-montp2.fr/etudier-a-lum2/presentation-et-actualites/4196-des-etudiants-de-la-fac-des-sciences-participent-au-ludum-dare
We’ll also plan to stream the event as of saturday afternoon at:
http://www.webtv.univ-montp2.fr/
It’ll be a fairly multidisciplinary event with mostly CS students from various different establishments (IUT and FdS for those in the know) plus some professionals (Guillaume from Swing Swing), a game-commentator (Pierrec from oujevipo.fr) and a couple from the Arts university doing cinema and game design respectively.
It’s gunna be ossum
there needs to be one in vancouver canada
We’re going to have a number of teams here at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas hosted in the Digital Humanities Lab. We’ll try to get a live streaming feed going when it starts.
We met up over the weekend in Prague and created Zzard!
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=19602
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/12/15/202537/
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/12/16/ohayou/
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/12/16/tiny-teeny-timelapse/