{"author_name":"Suese","cat":"LD #26","comments":[{"author_name":"Zelen3d","time":"April 15, 2013 4:18 pm","epoch":1366060680,"text":"This isn&#8217;t really clear, but I guess it would be an interesting thing to try if the technical and genre requirements aren&#8217;t too restrictive\/out of my taste.<br \/>\n I guess &#8220;I&#8217;m in&#8221;","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Suese","time":"April 15, 2013 5:48 pm","epoch":1366066080,"text":"I&#8217;d be happy to clear anything up for you.  What&#8217;s up?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 15, 2013 6:38 pm","epoch":1366069080,"text":"Is the &#8220;downloadable package&#8221; a bundle of all the games from this challenge?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Suese","time":"April 15, 2013 6:45 pm","epoch":1366069500,"text":"@RobProductions That&#8217;s what I want to do, yes.  Each entry will include a link to the Ludum Dare voting page so we can get more votes out to the winners.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 15, 2013 6:49 pm","epoch":1366069740,"text":"Sounds cool but unfortunately Unity exports with giant files and knowing me I wouldn&#8217;t want to have that kind of insane limit haha","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Zampi","time":"April 24, 2013 7:43 pm","epoch":1366850580,"text":"For unity3d programers will can use webplayer build for small size of project. For example clean project will be less when 7Kb.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Ezzam","time":"April 15, 2013 10:35 pm","epoch":1366083300,"text":"Higher difficulty means more fun, so I guess I&#8217;m in as well.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"sythra4","time":"April 16, 2013 1:12 am","epoch":1366092720,"text":"If this wasn&#8217;t my first LD I would definitely consider participating&#8230; Does this happen in every LD?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"DeathBySnail","time":"April 16, 2013 1:42 am","epoch":1366094520,"text":"I&#8217;m in, this sounds like a good challenge.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Puzzlem00n","time":"April 16, 2013 4:43 pm","epoch":1366148580,"text":"This all sounds pretty fun, minus the file size limitations. If you got rid of that requirement, I think that a lot more people would be interested in this.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"sorceress","time":"April 17, 2013 4:52 am","epoch":1366192320,"text":"Having less file size doesn\u2019t necessarily mean you\u2019re being a better coder. As Rob said above, some toolkits are just bigger than others, and that doesn\u2019t make them inferior.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 24, 2013 3:55 pm","epoch":1366836900,"text":"This sounds like Speed Hack. I miss Speed Hack. Unfortunately this Ludum Dare I am going to miss 8+ hours to spocial obligations, and will be working with a team who probably don&#8217;t want to worry about obscure technical\/artistic specifications.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Suese","time":"April 24, 2013 4:27 pm","epoch":1366838820,"text":"Speed Hack ~thumbs up~","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"tnovelli","time":"April 24, 2013 7:40 pm","epoch":1366850400,"text":"Hardcore, heh&#8230; sure, I can make a downloadable HTML5 game in 4MB&#8230; including 3.5MB of music. I&#8217;ll have to see about the tech\/genre requirement though.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"AngelDE98","time":"April 25, 2013 5:42 am","epoch":1366886520,"text":"&#8230; &#8220;Windows or web entries only.&#8221; WHAT THE F**K?!<br \/>\n Really, it sounds like random &#8220;OS racism&#8221;. Most people will do Unity and people doing Unity almost only export into web (exporting as .exe will make it runnable via Wine at least).. so it&#8217;s impossible to run Unity web entries on Linux.<br \/>\n Wait.. Flash Player? Well, hopefully Flash as web entry. It will be cross platform then. I&#8217;ve seen some random flash games as .exe on the web :\/","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1367016660,"likes":23,"metadata":{"p_key":"46082","p_author":"Suese","p_authorkey":"8361","p_urlkey":"81743","p_title":"Last chance for added glory!","p_cat":"LD #26","p_event":"LD26","p_time":"1367016660","p_likes":"23","p_comments":"15","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"8361","us_name":"Suese","us_username":"suese","event_start":"1366934400","event_key":"16","event_name":"LD26"},"text":"<div style=\"margin: auto;width: 520px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/black_box.png\" \/><\/div>\n <p>Add an extra mind-blowing level of difficulty to the already crazy Ludum Dare 48 feat and we&#8217;ll reward those who are brave enough to accept and complete the challenge.<\/p>\n <p>Your mission, should you accept it, \u00a0is to beef up your Ludum Dare 48 pandemonium by adding three extra requirement to your entry on top of the theme. \u00a0The black box includes:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>A <strong>technical<\/strong> requirement<\/li>\n <li>A <strong>genre<\/strong> requirement<\/li>\n <li>A <strong>size<\/strong> requirement 4MB or less (source code + assets).<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>The black box will be announced at the same time as the official Ludum Dare theme on April 26th @ 7pm PST<\/p>\n <p>Rules:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Your entry must qualify for all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/rules\/\">Ludum Dare 48 rules and guidelines<\/a>.<\/li>\n <li>Solo entries only.<\/li>\n <li>Limit 4mb compressed or less (source + assets only).<\/li>\n <li>Source code, assets and compiling instructions must be submitted to OUR server before the extended deadline of 12pm April 29th (GMT).<\/li>\n <li>Entry must use the genre, technical and theme requirement components.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Judging:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>Entries are scored by a small panel of 3 &#8211; 5 judges (to be determined).<\/li>\n <li>Each entry will be scored in 3 categories:\n <ul>\n <li>up to 10 points for <strong>fun.<\/strong><\/li>\n <li>up to 5 points for <strong>originality<\/strong>\u00a0(in using theme and requirements).<\/li>\n <li>up to 5 points for <strong>presentation.<\/strong><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n <li>The winner is the game with the most points.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Trophies:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>1st Place<\/li>\n <li>2nd Place<\/li>\n <li>3rd Place<\/li>\n <li>Participation Ribbon<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>The Prize:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li>More Glory<\/li>\n <li>Virtual Trophy<\/li>\n <li>Publicity &#8211; We&#8217;ll write some thoughtful articles reviewing entries, entrants, and winners.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Technical and Genre requirements will be revealed along with the Ludum Dare theme requirement.<\/p>\n <div style=\"margin: auto;width: 268px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesuese.com\/ld_black_box\/\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/thesuese.com\/ld_black_box\/im_in.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n <p><a href=\"http:\/\/thesuese.com\/ld_black_box\/\">Click here<\/a> to join.<\/p>","time":"April 26th, 2013 5:51 pm","title":"Last chance for added glory!"}