Think you have the best Theme idea for Ludum Dare? Tell us what it is.
If you’re new to the ‘New Theme Selection’ process, every user can suggest a maximum of 3 Theme ideas. This goes on for nearly 3 weeks. After that, we sort through the mega-list of themes in something called the Theme Slaughter. Finally, the weekend before Ludum Dare, we kick-off several rounds of Theme Voting, before the Final Round.
The Theme for Ludum Dare 35 will be announced at the start of the event. When is that? Go to the theme website, and it should tell you at the top of the page. Otherwise, check the countdown clock at the top of this page.
Is it broke for just me?
I did take the site down for a couple minutes (Updating the SSL certificates). Should be back.
Yep, it’s happy again. Thanks!
For future reference:
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
So, can we expect new site anytime soon?
There will be a couple new things this time (main one I’m keeping as a surprise), but we’ll still be on a hybrid site for this event (i.e. Theme Selection on new site, submission on old site). This week I need to migrate the old server to a new host, so that’s going to be some serious work. The streaming widget is broken, so I’m probably going to fast-track the replacement. Steam Widget is also broken, but I may just disable the broken parts.
I put together some videos on some of the Ludum Dare internals, but I’m sitting on them at the moment due a problem I was having.
Merch, I haven’t had any time to get this going.
Looking forward to those internal videos. I would love to help out on the new site. Already got the new site up and running on my computer.
If I go to the theme suggestion site after already logging in and suggesting themes, the login button still appears. Clicking on it takes me to where I can suggest themes. This doesn’t cause any problems, it’s just a little weird. Also, the logout button doesn’t seem to do anything. However, at one point Firefox gave an unresponsive script error. What’s going on here?
EDIT: I get an unresponsive script error every time, just from waiting a while after clicking the logoff button. I tried it on Microsoft Edge (new IE), and the logoff button worked. I don’t know if this is a problem on other browsers, or just Firefox.
Ah, yes this appears to be a Firefox bug.
As for the “weird”, yes it’s weird. We’re running 2 separate websites on 2 different servers (login information isn’t available). I rigged up something overly complicated for authenticating using existing Ludum Dare user accounts. It could be worse, but it’s just one weird click and it works.
Thanks!
Okay, this should now be fixed (Firefox bug).
Seems to still be broken. Even on chromium.
Yeah. It’s not responding. Sometimes it says “error: Empty”.
Everyone submit your egg related puns.
http://i.imgur.com/CYNkS7W.png
Your link is broken
I believe it is a bug in Chrome or perhaps imgur.
Click on link, and if the page is blank – click on the address bar and press enter. Removing “.png” from the link also seems to work.
is there any way to see what other people have suggested? i think it would be kind of interesting to see what other people are thinking as well as vote for our own suggestion.
At the moment no. The step after that would be to allow some sort of pre-slaughter voting, or theme feedback, and I’m not sure what I think about that just yet. I’ll have to mull that over. Maybe there is benefit having a way to discuss themes while they’re being suggested, I’m just not yet sure of the most effective way to do that.
I was planning to add a way to browse popular suggestions from prior events, and let you bookmark your favourites. Just not sure I’ll get around to it this time (we’ll see).
Is the slaughter button coming back???
The site crashes every time I click the login button. Anybody else have that problem?
nope, try a different browser maybe? or try and contact them through twitter…
I have same problem. Tried 3 different browsers. Everytime same error “Error:empty”. Did you find any solution?
same here too
Sorry about this! I finally tracked down the problem. Should work now.
I can’t delete my suggestion!
This should work now.
Wish the themes were more edgy, always feel like they’re a bit generic as they’re decided by the masses.
Theme site not working – it showing “Login” button thought I logged in already, and after pressing this button it shows error “Error: empty”, and freezes browser afterwards. Tried on every browser from two different locations with different ISP, it’s not working anywhere.
Sorry, this was a bug that cropped up during the move. Should be fixed now.
Ditto. Can’t login to the suggestion form on any browser. If I try to login using Firefox, I get an error that a script is unresponsive. That script url is http://static.ldjam.org/internal/src/cache.js?v=0.2.2:11
Try now.
The links at the top to skip to the theme voting or to skip all the voting completely and see the theme announcement don’t work
/me stares ate Jezzamon disappointedly.
*nods* srsly.
What is funny is that my work’s spam filter has classified “static.ldjam.org” as pornogrpahy.
Yeah, McAfee is stupid. No idea how that happened.
I’ve switched us to the alternative domain (static.jamdb.org). That should work better.
Vote for theme hitler.
The theme slaughter better have a slaughter button this time!! WE NEED IT!!