Hi everyone, and welcome to Ludum Dare 42!

Final Round Theme Voting has started. Go over here and cast your vote:

:ballot_box: /events/ludum-dare/42/theme

For rules and other info, visit the event page:

:trophy: /events/ludum-dare/42

For those new to Ludum Dare, the website will become slow/unusable during the minutes leading up to the Theme Announcement, so we highly recommend you follow our Twitter account for the reveal:

https://twitter.com/ludumdare

The theme will be announced when the clock at the top this page reaches zero.

IMPORTANT: Ludum Dare 42 starts (and ends) 3 hours earlier

In case you missed it, we're trying something: running a Ludum Dare 3 hours early. That looks something like this:

• 3:00 PM Friday on the West coast of USA/Canada ***
• 6:00 PM Friday on the East coast of USA/Canada (me)
• 10:00 PM Friday UTC
• 11:00 PM Friday in the UK
• 12:00 AM Saturday in France, Germany, Sweden, South Africa
• 1:00 AM Saturday in Finland, Belarus, Moscow
• 3:30 AM Saturday in India ***
• 6:00 AM Saturday in West Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong
• 7:00 AM Saturday in Japan
• 8:00 AM Saturday in Sydney Australia

(My apologies if I omitted you... there are a lot of you :wink:)

Again, check out the clock in the top-right corner of the web-page. We've done our best to have it automatically adjust to your local timezone.

After the event, I'll be posting a survey to get feedback on this alternative start time. This isn't a permanent change, but if folks like it, it's something we might try again.

Keynote, hosted by Jesse Freeman (@jessefreeman)

Keynoting our 42nd event Jesse Freeman, probably best known around these parts for his "Fantasy Game Console" the Pixel Vision 8. I've known Jesse for more years than I can remember, and I'm thrilled to have him keynote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmeBEVGna00

That's it for now. It's time for the final vote!