Ludum Dare #33: August 21-24

Competitions
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This isn’t IF-specific, but I thought it might be of interest to people on this forum.

Ludum Dare is an international game jam competition held three times a year (it’s probably the second best-known game jam after the Global Game Jam). It’s not specifically focused on interactive fiction, but interactive fiction is welcome - see Anna Anthropy’s queers in love at the end of the world for one example.

The next Ludum Dare is this coming weekend, August 21-24. Theme voting is in progress over here. The final theme will be revealed at the start of the event, which is (as I write this) 4 days, 4 hours, and 21 minutes away.

The full rules are here, but there are basically two versions:

  1. The Jam
  • Work alone or in a team.
  • You have 72 hours to make your game.
  • You may use third-party or previously-created assets (artwork, music, etc)
  • You are not required to share your source code.
  1. The Compo (aka Ludum Dare Hard Mode)
  • You must work alone.
  • You have 48 hours to make your game.
  • You must create all assets (art, music, etc) yourself, and they must all be created inside the 48 hours.
  • You must release your source code.

Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with Ludum Dare. I’ve participated once before, and I’m tackling it again this weekend, but that’s all. So I’m probably not good at answering complicated questions.

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If was fun for me to hear LD (that I first heard of long ago, but have never participated in - never had much luck with online speedhacks/jams) as second best known after Global Game Jam (which I’d never heard of), so I looked up the GGJ… That sounds like fun, and I’ll seriously consider taking part in GGJ '16. So thanks for that!

3

I’ll be maybe participating in my usual partially-interested partially-distracted way.

4

Caelyn actually made an IF entry for this - Campaign Trail OF BODIES, done in Twine. I really enjoyed it. (It may be my sleep-deprived state speaking, but ripping the heads off my constituents was exactly what I needed right now.)

Mine (Help! It’s A Hero!) was a graphical Unity project, so not really appropriate to this forum. But the tutorial probably has more text in it than it should. That’s like interactive fiction, right?

5

The link for Campaign Trail goes to a FAQ, is that intentional?..

6

I believe the red box above that (“WARNING! This entry may contain subject matter…”) is the actual game.

7

Aaaaaah.

I feel silly now.

Thanks.

8

…aaand I ended up working on code for something else entirely. Oh well.

Congrats, Caelyn and Carolyn!