Here's some thoughts:

• Suggesting 1 or 2 themes instead of 3 would be a nice idea since going through 2600+ themes is pretty time-consuming, and some of the themes looked like a filler.
• Some people should check spelling before submitting.
• Would be really nice and handy to have some kind of schedule to know when what happens: when the Theme Slaughter ends, when voting 1 starts, when voting 2 starts etc.

Hey all,

I'm thinking of potentially recording or live streaming myself creating a game for this upcoming Ludum Dare event.

But I'm not sure what would be the best way to accomplish this interms of what software/hardware to use and what other advice would be recommended as I've never done such a long recording before.

My goal is to screen capture my main monitor and all sound that is coming from the computer as well as my microphone audio.

OBS seems like the best choice since it allows for recording multiple audio sources while screen recording but my computer isn't strong enough to record from OBS and test play my game at the same time without a lot of performance lag. So I'm almost considering using a separate computer with an external Elgato capture card to record my game being developed from my main computer.

If you guys have other streaming setups you recommend or would like to share, or have any other advice/tips I would appreciate it, and thanks!

And here's hoping you all have a good experience with this month's Ludum Dare event!

Done with slaughter and had a thought: if only the top 100 games would earn the submitter the possibility to suggest themes for the next LD. we'd -likely remove many nonsense theme -save time going through themes -have a nice little reward for making/submitting games

As is stated in the jam page: "The Compo – 48 hour deadline, solo, from scratch (as much as is reasonable) --"

Where are you going to draw the line of "reasonable" for the upcoming jam? How are you preparing your project upfront?

I've decided to prepare audio scripts and related UI parts this time. While I feel it contradicts the spirit of the category, I have noticed I always end up copying these parts from the previous jam games anyway. So, to save some time and inevitable headache, I'm going to do myself a favor and allow myself to focus on the fun stuff.

I am working with Ue4.

For either jam or compo, is it 48 hours straight or can it be broken up? Luke 12 hours a day?

I thought some of the themes weren't great. I'll be entering solo using Ue4.

Themes like these demand a "super-like" feature!

I know this ends up the raw feed, but still can try. I was checking out everyones screenshots on the slaughter round, having been told the slaughtering is at random (which eould be the most fair and effective). My eye goes to those who have in the pictures the last themes voted for, disregarding if they yay or nayed it. There be a reasonable amount who have the same themes in that list of the last few. Which with 2k+ themes that supposedly are randomly given to you... Is weird.

Once, sure. Twice, alright? But its more... And these be not those with many duplicates if any. The added pictures are from three different users. It seems not really random for me like that, but I am not too known on this all.

Sigh. I WAS planning to add pictures, but cannot seemingly anymore. So you'll have to find them if interested. The ones that got my attention all start with the themes Diving, Arcane, Flowers. Examples be those of Adam, Geckoo and Astrydax on the homepage.

I have done the Slaugther and did not find a single of theme suggestions offensensive, what are the kind of suggestions that you all are flagging and why?

Decided once again to try the fun/sweat/tears dev cycle that is called Ludum Dare, but I think being in a team will make the experience better. I will be using Godot and have experience coding, shaders and some audio stuff. Last time I was in a team we made A100P (https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/a100p) which was so much fun to create!

Any 2D artists in the EU time zone? I’m in London myself.

sneeter

Let's try Compo again. It's been a while since my last LD, I miss programming something that isn't for my job XD

While I was slaughtering a bunch of themes, I finally got this one, and thought "Hey, it would be a nice concept though !"

To see the raw feed, visit https://ldjam.com/feed/raw

Since the feed is now being filtered by account history, it's hard to find posts of new developers.

You can visit the /feed/raw version of the site and get the raw feed. This has a bit of spam but you'll see posts of people just joining!