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16Skittles · 2012-08-19 15:17:49

Ludum Dare is a game making competition/jam. It happens about twice a year, with a weekend in which people around the world compete to make a game based on a theme (voting is currently in progress). Competitors get 48 hours (in the compo, 72 in the jam) to make a completely new game idea. Games are then submitted to the web site, and then voted on.

I hope to do LD this time, I wanted to do it last compo but had just previously worked a bunch on SeptimusHeap's jam, and was not ready to do another one. I will work in Java with LWJGL and Slick-Util. Is anyone else planning to compete?

poopo · 2012-08-19 15:27:26

I may, is it on a saturday/sunday this time?

16Skittles · 2012-08-19 15:41:39

poopo wrote:
I may, is it on a saturday/sunday this time?

It's always on a weekend. wink five days until it starts! big_smile

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SeptimusHeap · 2012-08-19 15:46:22

We should do another scratch jam big_smile

poopo · 2012-08-19 15:49:32

16Skittles wrote:
poopo wrote:
I may, is it on a saturday/sunday this time?
It's always on a weekend. five days until it starts!

w00t! big_smile I hope the theme is castles.

TorbyFork234 · 2012-08-19 16:04:54

Are you allowed to use an engine you made before, or are you starting from a completely blank document, creating the engine during the competition?

BirdByte · 2012-08-19 16:05:11

In Scratch?

kayybee · 2012-08-19 16:21:28

BirdByte wrote:
In Scratch?

it is usually done in Java or flash or c I think. you'll have to check the rules on which languages you can use. it might be all.

16Skittles · 2012-08-19 16:40:40

TorbyFork234 wrote:
Are you allowed to use an engine you made before, or are you starting from a completely blank document, creating the engine during the competition?

I believe that you can use your own engine if it is publicly available and you declare it beforehand (LD allows you to use a Wordpress blog linked with LD).

maxskywalker · 2012-08-19 18:48:41

I think that I'll probably do it with Ruby and Gosu. BTW, you can use 'All publicly available libraries and middleware', so put the stuff on the internet with 000webhost or sourceforge and you should be good. Do you have to enter beforehand?

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16Skittles · 2012-08-19 19:12:22

maxskywalker wrote:
I think that I'll probably do it with Ruby and Gosu. BTW, you can use 'All publicly available libraries and middleware', so put the stuff on the internet with 000webhost or sourceforge and you should be good. Do you have to enter beforehand?

I think you're supposed to create an account and make an "I'm in" post with the language and libs you will use.

veggieman001 · 2012-08-19 19:13:38

Likely going to attempt this

maxskywalker · 2012-08-19 19:35:12

Oh, and I think I read that you need to submit a time lapse video of coding your submission. Do they still/ever did that?

TheBajeebas · 2012-08-19 19:47:22

i think i'll do this in java

16Skittles · 2012-08-19 19:56:26

maxskywalker wrote:
Oh, and I think I read that you need to submit a time lapse video of coding your submission. Do they still/ever did that?

Not to my knowledge. They do require that you submit the source code in the compo, but not in the jam.

maxskywalker · 2012-08-19 21:04:08

16Skittles wrote:
maxskywalker wrote:
Oh, and I think I read that you need to submit a time lapse video of coding your submission. Do they still/ever did that?
Not to my knowledge. They do require that you submit the source code in the compo, but not in the jam.

Great. I guess now I just wait for the 24th to start writing code.

BirdByte · 2012-08-20 06:06:50

kayybee wrote:
BirdByte wrote:
In Scratch?
it is usually done in Java or flash or c I think. you'll have to check the rules on which languages you can use. it might be all.

Pretty sure Python is also up there, it's one of the majors.
I think I might take part if I learn Python. I don't think they accept 12-year-olds, though.

16Skittles · 2012-08-20 07:40:45

BirdByte wrote:
kayybee wrote:
BirdByte wrote:
In Scratch?
it is usually done in Java or flash or c I think. you'll have to check the rules on which languages you can use. it might be all.
Pretty sure Python is also up there, it's one of the majors.
I think I might take part if I learn Python. I don't think they accept 12-year-olds, though.

I see nothing about age anywhere on the rules.

BirdByte · 2012-08-20 09:22:41

16Skittles wrote:
BirdByte wrote:
kayybee wrote:
it is usually done in Java or flash or c I think. you'll have to check the rules on which languages you can use. it might be all.
Pretty sure Python is also up there, it's one of the majors.
I think I might take part if I learn Python. I don't think they accept 12-year-olds, though.
I see nothing about age anywhere on the rules.

Interesting... >:D

16Skittles · 2012-08-24 17:06:42

It's tonight! big_smile
I have to do the Jam because I have other stuff to do tomorrow and I don't want to try to make a full game in 24 hours, so with the extra time I'll still have about 48 hours. tongue

ProgrammingFreak · 2012-08-24 17:08:55

Rhy makes his games in Stencyl. :3

16Skittles · 2012-08-24 19:51:51

Nearly one hour...

maxskywalker · 2012-08-24 19:57:41

Not... much... longer....

Do people usually come up with vague ideas and then make them work with the theme, or do they just wait for it to start?

16Skittles · 2012-08-24 20:35:14

maxskywalker wrote:
Not... much... longer....

Do people usually come up with vague ideas and then make them work with the theme, or do they just wait for it to start?

I'm waiting for the start, for better or for worse. 30 minutes, trying to pass the time with TF2 but don't want my CPU to overheat right now... If the Ludum Dare would have been one week later it would have matched up with my schedule perfectly. sad

Edit: http://twitter.com/ludumdare For the theme announcement!

Edit 2: Okay TF2 is out, I'm just going to stare at the LD48 Twitter feed for the announcement and the timer for the release.

Edit 3: 10 minutes now! Bashing F5 on this thread, ludumdare.com, twitter.com/ludumdare, and reddit.com/r/ludumdare. Is there a way to refresh all pages at once?

Edit 4: ludumdare.com locked down now! Under 7 minutes!

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veggieman001 · 2012-08-24 20:56:28

16Skittles wrote:
Edit 3: 10 minutes now! Bashing F5 on this thread, ludumdare.com, twitter.com/ludumdare, and reddit.com/r/ludumdare. Is there a way to refresh all pages at once?

Write a script tongue
Though that might take too long...

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