MiniLD #60: June 27-29. Theme: Any past Ludum Dare theme!
Past Ludum Dare themes · Past MiniLD themes
Ludum Dare has been around a long time—13+ years! (That’s over three quarters of my life! Not that I’ve known about it all that time, but still.) And soon, thanks to PoV, we’re going to be saying goodbye to this old, clunky website that has served us through so many of them. That, along with MiniLD #60 being a nice round milestoney number, made this seem like the perfect time to look back on our long history and celebrate what Ludum Dare has meant to all of us.
Of course, if you’re new to LD, that shouldn’t stop you from participating. The rules here are simple enough: pick out a theme from any past Ludum Dare event. Whichever one you like! Lists of past themes are linked above. Then, over the last weekend of June, pretend you’re taking part in that past Ludum Dare. I think it would be fun if you stuck to the strict Ludum Dare rules if you pick a full LD’s theme, but hey, I’m not watching.
This presents some interesting opportunities for you. Did a theme give you a great idea during an LD once, but for some reason or another you were unable to participate? Now’s your chance! Did you intend to enter a certain LD, but fail to finish your entry in time? Now you can redeem yourself!
But wait, there’s more!
Challenge Theme: What has Ludum Dare meant to you?
This one’s for the people who’ve been around a little while. I can at least speak for myself when I say that Ludum Dare has really meant something to a lot of people over the years. Why not share with the community what it’s meant to you?
So, if you’d like, create a game that expresses what Ludum Dare has meant to you. It can be something big or small—there’s no right or wrong answer here. Alternatively, you can write a post about it, or even make something in one of those weird non-game mediums! Make anything you want—a thank you note, a story worth sharing, or even some sort of mega post-mortem. We’d love to hear it!
In addition, I’d like to ask a small favor of you. As most of us are aware, PoV has been working full time on the new LD website despite not receiving even half the donations he needs to support himself. If, in your games and posts, you could please link to Mike’s donation page, I would appreciate it. EDIT: Mike says he doesn’t feel right about “getting money for work by others,” so we’ve had this paragraph removed er, strikethroughed. He’s very humble. =)
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Make sure to write what theme(s) you picked in your entry’s description! I look forward to seeing what you’ve come up with.
Tags: #MiniLD60
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Cool, when does it start and end ? or more speficially when can we start working on our games?
The “official” time period is the last weekend of June, 27-29. (Includes Monday if you prefer the 72-hour Jam!) But truthfully, you can start/stop working whenever you want and I won’t stop you. Starting at the beginning of that weekend is just my recommendation.
Cool, thanks. -[0]^[0]-
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Looks cool. I hope i get some courage and do something.
Hey, let me tell you something–you shouldn’t need courage. There’s no contest here, and since this is a MiniLD, I’ll hardly be enforcing any time limit! This is all about having fun and exploring the kinds of things you like to make. Please, listen: don’t be afraid you can’t make a good game. It doesn’t matter whether you make a perfect, polished game, but whether you learn something doing it.
Good luck with your doing something.
Wow! Thanks. I think i will try to learn haxeflixel a bit and do something on it. I was using unity and i wanna try something new now. Thanks again!
I LOVE this theme !! I’m definitely participating
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Thanks! I tried. 😉
Also is there a winner ?
No. MiniLDs are traditionally unranked, without any judging or voting periods.
Can we start a few hours early?
No problem. You could start days early if you wanted to. I’m letting you guys decide which rules to follow this time around. =)
Ok thanks!
Sounds like fun! I definitely plan on making a submission for this, choosing which one of the themes from past LDs to use will be really hard (there are so many good ones), but hopefully I will have time to get something done 😀
P.S. I noticed that you were awarded the “Awesome MiniLD Award” today for the awesome theme you came up with, so congrats!
Haha, thanks. I have Donni11 to thank for that, it looks like. =)
I’ll be attending a local game jam at the same time! Is there any rules against submitting to both? (I’ll be asking the local game jam people the same question.)
I’ve done it before, and I’m never sure how much it is cheating to submit the same game to multiple game jams… And I’ll mention^H^H^H^H^H^H loudly point out that they’ve scheduled their game jam on the same weekend as the MiniLD, so maybe we’ll call it the local MiniLD meetup!
Ruuuuules? We don’t got none o’ your stinkin’ rules around here, chum. 😉 Submitting to both would be fine. (I once doubled up with a MiniLD and another jam myself!)
Love the “no rules” theme lol.. and great selection of past themes 😀
Awesome!I’m so gonna enter this MiniLD!It’s been a month…I didn’t actually enter the last one due it was just after LD32….Any ways awesome idea!:D
Hey can we make two games?!The themes are awesome and I can’t really decide which one should I choose…
Two games would be great! You could even make one this weekend and the other one the next, maybe. I’m not sure the submission system allows an account to have more than one submission page, but you can easily link to both your games from the same page.
cool, but how can i find the theme for ludum dare 1 ?
It’s Guardian.
oh i found it, list of all theme’s:
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludumdare/
Awesome, always wanted to make a game about some old LD themes!
Going to try a new engine this time, maybe haxeflixel.
Great, I’ll definitely try to enter if I have time that weekend. I think “10 Seconds” from LD 27 would be a cool theme to try out.
A challange: try to incorprate as many thmes as you can into your game. Some of them pair well such as exploration, underground, and caverns. Others not so much, such as enemies as weapons and It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this! Enter in description how many themes you managed to use!
That… could get difficult. And messy. =)
Trying to think of something really cool I can do and still keep it in scope. I like these themes.
Well, this sounds brilliant. I will do my best to create some sort of exploration game (theme from LD 16) since that’s just the kind of game I like. It might be too easy an option, so I will take on board your additional challenge. Plus, I’ll probably make the game with SFML and C++. I like the library and language, but have never completed a game using either of them. Best of luck to everyone
Since I will be spending that weekend separated from my game-making devices by a woefully long distance I went ahead and made it already: hope you don’t mind, dear Organizer.
Onwards, fellow Ludum Darers! Good luck with your games!
No problem. =)
Are we able to start early ?
Go ahead! Submission link will be up soon.
Awesome
! Thanks 
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WTF Is it 13 years!!?? Has been around for 13/14 of my life then xD
But yaa, I’m in!!
Is doing an October challenge for this acceptable? The game I want to finish totally fits the theme here but I’m not sure that’s kosher.
That’d be great! Mashes in yet another Ludumy event. =D
Mini-LD #47 was apparently “Humble Beginnings”.
That sounds like a pretty good theme in a number of ways…Hey, maybe people who have never done LD can start here!
Oh yes, I can finally get back to doing the minimalist themed game that I missed out on after getting started on it. Gonna do that then!
Might enter something. Work with my 11 year old. Let him choose the theme.
Mini LD !
Finally a good point in time to start Unity
We are in, we are gonna finish, and we are gonna make this one count.
Yes, yes and yes!
So getting in on this! What are the chances we can merge themes?
Go ahead.
my post is still pending review, and how do I submit my game?
LD noobie here
Submission link will show up in this post soon. Sit tight until then. =)
Just finished my game! So excited ;3.
Sorry about the lack of submission form. It’s now added.
Don’t worry about it.
When do submissions close?
Probably in a few days. I don’t want to keep them open too far into July.
Dumb question, but does it end at the beginning of the 29th, or are we allowed to work on the 29th?
I started late so an exact time would be helpful.
You can stop whenever you’d like to stop, or whenever you think is fair. If you started late, go ahead and end late.
So I have a tiny question….Today is the last day of submiting right?Or we have more time?please answer quickly!
Sorry, I haven’t been on until now. It’s not like I get any comment notifications. =p
You’re allowed to take as much time as you want. Submissions will close in a few days though, probably.
Please let us submit at least until the end of June!
That’s what I had in mind.
This seemed like a neat theme.
Thanks! Sorry you missed out. Submissions are still open at present, so you could maybe still make something, but I think they’ll close soon. I honestly don’t know when–that’s PoV/Sorceress’s job. =)
Well its already July 5th and it officially ended June 27th , so I guess you might have some time left.
Good way to sendoff from game development. What made us start made us end. It comes full circle. I thank the Ludum Dare community for getting me started, and I only blame myself for quitting. Don’t stay behind for me.