WTF is

Ludum Dare?

About me

Eduard Ruzga
wonderwhy.er@gmail.com
www.wonderwhy-er.com










  •  I love games, duh
  •  games and web application developer
  •  freelancer
  •  in LudumDare since 2008
  •  I like to experiment and prototype

For whom is this?



Its for you if


You want to LEARN to prototype games


You want to make some game


Yet something always stops you



Ludum Dare is




 48 hour international game development marathon

and its addicting



Aim of this presentation





Encourage more local people to participate

April 2013 LD26

Why?



No one succeeds alone



Strong community provides

infrastructure, people, connections, visibility, feedback


Few questions?



Have you heard of Ludum Dare before?



Have you participated before?



Will you participate in next one?

Ludum Dare in 10 minutes



  • When?
  • Where?
  • Who?
  • Rules?
  • Why participate?

Where and when?



It happens 3 times a year


Usually in April, August and December


It has no physical place(kinda)

www.ludumdare.com

#ludumdare on irc.afternet.org




How exact date is chosen?

Voting by public

Next one



Jam or not to jam?


Now there are two version of Ludum Dare


Classic one


And Jam edition


Both run at the same time

Classic rules


You must work alone (solo)

All game code and content must be created within the 48 hours

Games must be based on the theme.

All publicly available libraries and middleware are allowed

All content creation, and development tools are allowed. (3dsmax, Photoshop, Flash, etc)

Source code must be included (Learning!)



Jam edition


You can work alone or in a team

Create a game in 72 hours

Games should be based on the theme

All libraries, middleware, content creation, and development tools are allowed

Source code is not required (buuhoo!)

Theme suggestions



Wiki style before, google form now


Theme must not be technically limiting


It must not have been used before


And it must be simple, not a combination




Themes of previous years


Tower
Caverns
Exploration
Islands
Enemies as Weapons
Discovery
It’s Dangerous to go Alone! Take this!
Escape
Alone
Tiny World
Evolution
You are the Villain
Minimalism

Warmup weekend


Popular tools

Timelapse




Notch even did live stream once
So 17K people watched a man program on Java

Theme voting


"I am in" blog post



Rule and a tradition



Introduce yourself

Your tools

Your hopes


Notch is in!




I am in!

Some random HTML guy is in


Food

And it beings



It starts at the same time for everyone

in form of theme announcement



For Latvia its middle of the night

Creative storm

Countdown

Some common advices


Use creative storm to get inspired


Do make deadlines


Preferably first day playable prototype


Second day polishing, testing, UI, tutorial, sounds


Sleep!

Finishing


Upload something playable before deadline


Source may be added after deadline


Its allowed to update your entry with bug fixes


It is allowed to add separate link to postmortem version

Postmortem


Voting


Goes for 2-3 weeks



You need to get 20 votes to get in to the ranking

Success stories

Evoland

Realm of Mad God



Are you in?


Register www.ludumdare.com


Latvian group

facebook.com/groups/latvian.game.jamers/


Thanks





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