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/