Hey,

The Ludum Dare Meetup in SF is going to happen!

When: Tuesday, March 1st, 5:30pm
Where: The Food Emporium in the Westfield San Francisco Centre – take the escalator down to the bottom floor of the mall.
Finding Us: We will be directly to the right of the bottom of the escalator. Some of us will have LD T-shirts, and it’s going to be awesome. We’ll eat exquisite food and have polite conversation.

We’re going to all get a plate of food and hang out and eat for an hour or so. It should be a good time! Be sure to wear your Ludum Dare T-Shirt so we can get a swell group photo

Also, a few people mentioned wanting to organize some other crazy activities for during GDC. You should post a comment with what your ideas are! I’m sure some of us would love to have even more fun at GDC than we’re already planning on having!

Cheers!
-Phil

Lets talk GDC, San Fransisco, and all things going on Feb 27th-28th and March 1st-5th.

This entry was posted on Friday, February 18th, 2011 at 5:42 pm and is filed under LD - Misc. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Finally it’s weekend and i can sit down and write a game! I’m gonna make a game I called “Tetris is now a fishing game”. I’ve changed the rules that I chosen before so here is my new rules:

Theme: Tetris is now a fishing game
3 Limitations: Game must end in 60 seconds +
All audio must be your own voice + Framerate cap at 5fps
2 Rules: All variable, class, function etc names must be palindromes +
Game must be code complete in the first 3 hours, if not, must start over. NO CODING AFTER THAT.

Hope to finish it in 3 hours.

I made a terrible game about the life of a fish that must avoid an evil red thing. After all, all fish must avoid evil red things, right?

Theme
Fishing

Limitations:
2 colors
Game Must end in 60 seconds

Rules:
Game must be code complete in the first 3 hours, if not, must start over. NO CODING AFTER THAT.

I’m totally messed up the code :(, so I’m gonna start over right now, and at the end I’m going to submit all the versions of the game.

Took little more then 3 hours to do the game module but..nvm, so tomorrow I’ll do the sound, graphics and publish. Now sleep!

Every year, there’s a challenge to make a fully-functioning, playable roguelike game in seven days. For more information about this year’s Seven-Day Roguelike (7DRL) Challenge, you can check out “7DRL Contest 2011” at RogueBasin. There’s also a Facebook event for participants!

The 7DRL Contest isn’t organisationally related to Ludum Dare in any way, but seeing as there are many people here who are willing to subject themselves to suffering make games within absurd time limits, I thought it might be worth the advertisement. 😉

—Tom.

What with school and some other things that have popped up recently, I (for the second month in a row) did not finish my MiniLD entry. However, I am a HUGE fan of the concept I came up with! Sometime down the road, I will complete this project and remove all references to Tetris so I can legally release it. :]

Roller-Derby 20XX: Mega Islands of Awesome (my April 2010 Ludum Dare entry) has been rebuilt from the ground up, sponsored and released under a shorter title “Roller Derby 20XX”.

Play via Kongregate (English Leaderboards)
Play via MiniJuegos (Primary Sponsor) in “HD”

I always intended to revisit this game post-compo but it took many months before I actually did anything about it. The talented musical stylings of Amon26 and exquisite pixel-artistry of Paul Veer made the game come to life. As for me, I rewrote a lot of the code and tweaked the controls significantly from the original release.

Actually going through the process of releasing a game, finding sponsorship and distribution was hugely rewarding. I learned so much that will put me in a stronger position if I decide to do another sponsored Flash game. Financially, Roller Derby 20XX was a break-even proposition. I was able to pay the artists and FGL’s 10% cut. Which is fine. The experience was far more valuable to me than any monetary gains.

Ludum Dare has been a life-changer for me. I don’t have much free time and I’m not disciplined enough to spend an hour or two on game development every day. But I can free up a weekend and know that I will have something prototyped after 48hrs. Sometimes these prototypes are worth expanding on.

I recommend to anyone: take one of your compo entries, polish it up and throw it up on Flash Game License. Just experience what it’s like to go through that process.

Total investment in Roller Derby 20XX: About 150 hours. Value gained from the experience? Priceless.

terry has found a place for us to meet! This is what he says:

“Any indies still in San Francisco, we’re meeting for a jam at the noisebridge hackerspace Friday for the day! We’ll be there from 11am or so.
It’s at 3rd floor of 2169 mission street, near the 16th street Bart station.”

Hope to see you there!

-Phil

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at 8:41 pm and is filed under MiniLD #24. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

I found some game-breaking glitches in CouchJumper, and as I don’t have enough time to rewrite the physics code for the 8th time, I just hacked together a small game called Climber. (Yes, I know this is 13 days after the MiniLD ended)

You’re a small square that needs to survive the onslaught of fishy things. Use just the arrow keys.

And as I don’t seem to be able to submit this to the MiniLD page anymore, here’s a download link:

http://www.weebly.com/uploads/3/6/7/0/3670719/climber.py

You’ll need Python 2.7, and Pygame 1.9.1. You can get them at python and pygame.org, respectively.

Screenshot:

Hi folks,

Here’s the latest build of the game :

http://kapokmedia.com/halifax1917/2011_02_26/

It is a test level, for development purposes. No fire in this version, no time limit. But there is a usable ladder, water depletion, a water bottle pickup, and a destructible DOOR!

Currently I didn’t add an axe to the player, but you can mimic hitting the door by pressing SPACE. You can do this from anywhere on the stage… will be fixed soon

Hi.

I’ve created subj so if you still haven’t played these games you can watch videos and decide. Or send link to your friend. Here.

Tags: gameplay, video

Sorry guys for all the dare’s i missed. But i had lots of school and what not. I will try my best to make it in another one. 😀

p.s. i changed my name from pants12 to pants.

Tags: pants12 approval

I choked during last MiniLD, but I’ve been secretly working on this one for TigSource VS compo. Thanks to Chris (author of player.IO) I was able to create a chess game that has no concept of turns. It’s more of a gimmick than a game, but I uploaded it to Kongregate and I hope that at least some people would play that, so it can get some badges. Anyways, there’s not much to say since it’s still good old boring chess, but if you want to find out, just try it out!

Play on Kongregate

It’s about that time, folks. It’s time not only for a Mini-LD, but a Mini-LD hosted by none other than #ld’s resident moody grump, ME!!

This isn’t going to have a complex theme system, nor a weird “meta” theme. It’s pretty straightforward, actually.

The theme for Mini-LD #25 is…

The Worst Game I Have Ever Made

The objective here is to make the biggest godawful train wreck of a game that you possibly can. Crappy pixel art (Or worse, clip art), nightmarish level design, and a complete lack of cogency are ideal for this challenge.

Mini-LD #25 begins at 12AM UTC on March 12, and ends at 12AM UTC on March 14.

[ SUBMIT HERE | VIEW ALL ]

Here is the keynote for this Mini-LD, delivered by former president George W. Bush. (Yes, a keynote for a Mini-LD! I’m fancy like that.) (Edit: Thanks PoV!)

hay guyz i heard about ld from a friend and i joined cus i really like 3D games and wanted to be part of the cool thing that i heard about called LD.

my name is Anthony Paleur but everyone called me ant ergo my user name.

pls could someone explain LD a little to me thx a bunch sry iof i dont know what this is i am only about 14 years old but i started school 2 years late so i am stuck with all these 12 year old anyong people i really hate them are there any on here…well stupid question this is the interwebz right? lol anyway hope to be part of this soon.

I created a Wikipedia article for Ludum Dare: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludum_dare Please feel free to expand on what we have there so far.  I had trouble digging up results of competitions before LD15 and was unable to find the winners pre LD10.

Seriously, can I do the next one available? It’s like, your not even trying here. Honestly for the next vacant keynote mini-ld or ld, please let me give it a try.

Hey guys,

I’m going to hopefully participate in the upcoming miniLD #25. This is going to be my first ever Ludum Dare, also my first development compo. 😀
So, I ask you, veterans, one-timers, and generally developers, do you have any tips for a newbie like me?

Thanks in advance. 😀