Our little association Baptême du jeu (originally a Facebook group) has teamed up with Kawenga to organise our second Ludum Dare real-world gathering ^^ Here’s a teaser poster (awesome pixel pirate by PixelBlock):

We’re charging 7€ for food (a jammer jams on his stomach), and if you’re not already a member of Kawenga you’ll need to sign up for a year’s membership for another 8€. You can sign-up here. We only have about 50 places, so don’t dilly-dally

I finally got around to posting my Ludum Dare 25 time-lapse, accompanied with some idle musings and some epic open (GPL3) music

Check it out!

http://youtu.be/90V72BQvPOo

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We were interviewed on fight4game during Ludum Dare 25, and the footage has finally been edited and released: I’m afraid it’s all in French, but you get a decent look at the room were were in

I can’t seem to embed youtube videos, so here is a direct link.

I want to point out for those who do speak French that I was exhausted (this was taken Saturday morning: remember that in France we start at 3am) and that French isn’t my mother-tongue – sure, I repeat myself a lot, but considering the circumstances I think it went pretty well

The Montpellier real-world gathering was a great success, and hopefully we’ll be able to organise a similar gathering next time around

Here you can see Gaael and FlowerPower engaged in “witty” banter while Pierrec (in Black), Niavlys (blond), Doelia and company are hard at work. On the right you can see our buffet (the participants got a LOT of food) and Christmas tree, and perched up on top of the mainframe in the corner of the room is the web-cam we used to stream the event.

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Ludum Dare Montpellier has assembled! Currently live-streaming our… checking that the live-stream works We’ll have to cut the feed between 9:00 and 13:00 tomorrow (GMT+1) but otherwise we’ll be live

Can you spot the Swing Swing Submarine developer?

The workspace for the 14 Montpellier dare-devil – this is the angle from which our stream will be taken

Hi all

This is my second Ludum Dare and my 7th jam, though I still have a lot to learn about making games Here is my entry from last year.

I’ve organised an real-world gathering this year at the University Montpellier 2 with the help of Gaeel, my fellow Brit’ in Southern France, and a few other people. The faculty has been great, but we only had confirmation and security permissions at the last minute, so we can’t invite any more participants (though visitors can come by Saturday morning). There will be around 14 of us in total, including Guillaume from Swing Swing Submarine and Pierre from Oujevipo. It’s going to be legend… wait for it… dary!

We also plan to stream the event as of Saturday midday using the university’s web-tv.

That said the organisation has eaten up all my spare time this last fortnight and I have a number of projects to hand in next week, so I may have to hijack the dare to work on technology for either:

• multi-agent systems project
• crowd-movement (troop formations) simulation project

I’m a bit sad about this :’( Both of which are open-source projects – In this case I’ll develop code tangentially to the base… I’m not sure how kosher this is, probably not at all. I also predict that organisation during the event will eat up a considerable amount of the 48 hour period, so I may not end up with much  – that said I’m super psyched about this event and happy to provide others will a cool working environment

Happy New Dare everyone