Ludum Dare is a regular accelerated solo game development competition.  Entrants develop games from scratch in 48 hours, based on a theme suggested by community.

Ludum Dare was founded by Geoff Howland, and held it’s first competition in April of 2002. Since then, the community has run more than 15 regular competitions, creating well over 1000 games in 48 hours and less.

The competition attracts developers from all sides of the industry. Students, hobbyists, industry professionals from many well respected game studios, as well as many independent game developers.

For many people, it can be difficult to find or make the time create a game or prototype for yourself. We’re here to be your excuse.

The Ludum Dare competition and website are currently maintained by Mike Kasprzak (PoV) acting as figurehead, and Phil Hassey (philhassey) handling most of the site administration and programming. In addition, fellow moderators Mike Hommel (Hamumu) and Seth Robinson (mrfun) play a major role in all things related.

But as much as we do, the community is essential to the competition. _TODO: FINISH LONG PRESSY BLURB_

Donors

People that have made donations to the site.

2010

• Simon Schmid (??) [hey! e-mail me with a link] – $10
• Massimo Macaluso (Vartagh) [link] – $10
• Thomas Trocha (dertom) [link] – $10
• Sergey Tikhonov (haqu) [link] – $100!!
• Aaron Oldenburg (??) [hey! e-mail me with a link] – $10

2009

• Kevin (viptravis) [link] – $18
• Julio Gorgé [link] – $15
• Hamilton Lima (athanazio) [link] – $10
• Pekka Kujansuu (pekuja) [link] – $20
• Måns Olson (Morre) [link] – $20
• Collin Green (Keeyai) [link] – $50!
• Philip Ludington (MrPhil) [link] – $100!!
• Sam Atkins (AtkinsSJ) [link] – $10

2008

• Geoff Howland (Geoff) [link] – ludumdare.com
• Mike Kasprzak (PoV) [link] – $30
• Rene Dudfield (Illume) [link]- $10
• Phil Hassey (philhassey) [link] – $30
• Mike Hommel (Hamumu) [link] – $30
• Jacob Hansen (shrt) [link] – $20
• Keith Weatherby II (Uhfgood) [link] – $2.88
• Seth Robinson (mrfun) [link]- $33.33
• Mike Headley (LoneStranger) [link] – $10
• Tobias Olsson [link] – $20

Mike Kasprzak (PoV) is managing the finances and taking donations on behalf of Ludum Dare. Donations are used only for covering the cost of hosting, domains, and other potential fees related to keeping the site up and running (bandwidth overcharges, etc). We don’t take a cut.

If you’d like to make a contribution, you can do so via Paypal.

After making a donation, send Mike an e-mail (mike AT sykhronics DOT com) and let me know the user name/handle you use on the site. Also include a URL we can link back to you with. If you notice any mistakes here, you can contact Mike the same way.