Ludum Dare is back for the big six-oh, ready to claim its seniors discount! :olderman: :olderwoman:

Final Round Theme Voting is Live

You know the drill. Click here and cast your vote:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/60/theme

Need an ldjam.com invitation code?

Use the code sixtober to sign up.

Uploading games is offline :cry:

Due to some issues we've encountered, uploading your games to Ludum Dare is currently offline. For LD60 you're going to need to upload your game somewhere else and add it as a download link on your game page. If you don't self host, some popular options for hosting include the following:

• https://itch.io
• https://newgrounds.com
• https://github.com (git)
• https://codeberg.org (git)

So what was up with that ldjam.com downtime?

Great question!

Sometime after Ludum Dare 59, a key account with one of our partner services went dead. Any attempt to reset the password fails, and I don't have any record saying our arrangement had being terminated. Automatic notifications simply stop dead one day. :shrug:

All of this went down around the same time I'd received another "no thank you" for a job I'd been interviewing for. Feeling like a broken record ( :cry: ), in an attempt to improve my mood, I decided to take a hiatus from social media (not only posting but reading, ugh). Unsure if the account trouble was a glitch, I chose to wait a few days and try again. No luck. :shrug:

Getting the website working again was going to take a few days, and with no event currently running and me in a bit of a panic applying for jobs, I chose to leave it and revisit it in September.

Anyway, as you can see things are currently back up and running. Fingers crossed we don't encounter any issues this weekend. If we do, I'll post them over on our Bluesky.

https://bsky.app/profile/ludumdare.com

That's it from me. I hope you have a good weekend.

• Mike