Today we learned a few things about pushing the start-time of Ludum Dare back 3 hours: When you do that, more people are able to submit at the same time. :astonished:

Since the website has been pretty-much unusable for the past 2 hours, and we realize most people have day-jobs, school, or other obligations tomorrow, we've decided to keep things simple and leave submissions open overnight. Submissions will close about this time tomorrow (see the countdown clock).

So, say hello to the first Submission Day.

This doesn't mean you have an extra day to work, just an extra day to submit. You should have finished your game by the deadline, and noticed "oh hey, the website is messed up".

Hopefully this is not something we have to do again (at least not for a while), but this way the huge influx of traffic can be spread out.

At the time of this writing, I'm finally able to make this post, but a lot of the website is still bogged down and not working right. It should be cleared up enough to use within the hour, but it's still not fair of us to make everyone wait until then. So, Submission Day it is.

At this point I was supposed to post a survey of what you all thought of the earlier start and end time, to see if we should try this again next August. If there's time enough between now and then to do some serious infrastructure upgrades (caching improvements, DB clustering, etc), then yeah maybe we'll give it another go. But clearly we were not prepared for the increased traffic that comes from the new time. :sweat_smile:

That's it for now. Get your submissions in when you can. Sorry for the inconvenience!