You can view your results here:

My Results: ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=me

The individual category results are just above your comments.

Top 100 Games

Check out winning competition and jam games here:

Compo Top 100: ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=top
Jam Top 100: ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=top&cat=Overall(Jam)

Winners are decided by the Overall category.

Congratulations to all the winners.

Category Winners

Here at Ludum Dare, being the best overall game isn’t the only way to win. Games are rated in 7 additional categories, with a special “Coolness” category highlighting people that went above and beyond to be sure you got a vote.

Categorical Top 25’s: ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/

*NOTE*: You can click on the titles of the categories for Top 100 lists per category.

What’s next?

Stay tuned. I need a bit longer to finish up.

In the mean time, enjoy the results and congratulate the winners.

– Mike Kasprzak (PoV)

If you see this button, just click it. The site shouldn’t actually be down, but sometimes CloudFlare thinks otherwise. I’m not sure why this happens. So far it’s the only real problem I’ve run in to since moving the server.

Can’t wait for Ludum Dare? Are you ready though? No? Then between now and the start, you’re encouraged to test your tools. We call it Warmup Weekend (but we don’t mind when you submit, be it today or next week). Make some art, import it, and draw it on screen. Make some sounds, import them, and play them on cue. If you’re using a new development tool, figure out the development cycle. Learn how to make a release too!

Bullet point summary:

• No rules or limits. This is practice.
• Learn your development tools! Write some code, run it.
• Make some art, get it on screen, make it move.
• Print some text to the screen. Print some text to a log (if applicable).
• Make some sound, get it in game, make it play.
• If you’re motivated enough, make your experiments in to a game!
• Make something that should take “hours”, not 2 days.
• Then package it up, put it online.
• No time or day limit. But if you have no other plans this weekend, why not?

If you like what you’ve done, feel free to share it.

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.

Deals! See the comments below for this LD’s list of offers, bargains and other things.

If you’d like to submit your own deal, post details and a link in the comments below, or send Mike an e-mail.

Post links to wallpapers you’ve created in the comments.

Ludum Dare 34’s wallpapers are here. Ludum Dare 33’s wallpapers are here. Ludum Dare 32’s wallpapers are here.

While Ludum Dare is typically an online event (make a game from the comfort of your home), many real world events happen around Ludum Dare. Most events have limited space, so RSVP ASAP! Here’s the list:

US and Canada

• Richmond, Virginia – 804RVA
• Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – PegJam at ACI Manitoba
• Longmont, Colorado – TinkerMill
• Richmond, Kentucky – Eastern Kentucky University
• Louisville, Kentucky – Game Dev Lou
• Knoxville, Tennessee – Knoxville Game Design
• Manhattan, New York – VR Jam
• Troy, New York – Tech Valley Game Space
• Lexington, Kentucky – RunJumpDev
• Eugene, Oregon – FertiLab
• Bozeman, Montana – Bozeman Game Jams
• Venice, California – Indie Game Jams!
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Looking For Group
• San Francisco, California – Noisebridge

Rest of the World

• Brighton, United Kingdom – The Skiff
• Omsk, Russia – Old48
• Manchester, United Kingdom – MadLab
• Melbourne, Australia – La Trobe University
• Brasilia, Brazil – UDF
• Adelaide, Australia – Jamalaide
• Budapest, Hungary – Nemesys Games
• Tartu, Estonia – APT GameGenerator
• Goiás, Brazil – Gamejam Goiana
• Luleå, Sweden – LuleåMakerSpace [more]
• Lund, Sweden – Code@LTH at ProLab (Plus Thursday Unity event)
• Paris, France – Ludum Dare Paris
• Bangalore, India – Bangalore Game Developers
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – GameFounders Asia HQ
• Prague, Czech Republic – Charles University
• Saint-Petersburg, Russia – D3COD3
• Oeiras, Portugal – Técnico Lisboa Uni
• Osnabrück, Germany – Innovationscentrum Osnabrück
• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Espaço de Estudos Botafogo

If you want your event on the list, post a comment letting me know where your event is. Be sure to include a link to further details (either here on the blog, or elsewhere).

You can view your results here:

My Results: ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=me

The individual category results are just above your comments.

Top 100 Games

Check out winning competition and jam games here:

Compo Top 100: ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=top
Jam Top 100: ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=top&cat=Overall(Jam)

Winners are decided by the Overall category.

Congratulations to all the winners.

Category Winners

Here at Ludum Dare, being the best overall game isn’t the only way to win. Games are rated in 7 additional categories, with a special “Coolness” category highlighting people that went above and beyond to be sure you got a vote.

Categorical Top 25’s: ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/

*NOTE*: You can click on the titles of the categories for Top 100 lists per category.

Ludum Dare 35 – April 15th-18th Weekend!

Our first event of 2016 is coming up April 15th! Follow us on Twitter or join the mailing list to stay informed.

Future Stuff

*deep breath*

Well, it’s been a year, and I need to ask you guys a favour.

http://ludumdare.com/…/tough-decisions-future-ludum-dare-stuff/

The post is long, but to save time I’ve included summaries (TL;DR).

Thanks again everyone for making Ludum Dare great! We’ll see you again soon!

– Mike Kasprzak (PoV)

Deals! See the comments below for this LD’s list of offers, bargains and other things.

If you’d like to submit your own deal, post details and a link in the comments below, or send Mike an e-mail.

Are you itching for some Dare? Yeah! Are you ready though? Nope!?! Then between now and the start, you’re encouraged to test your tools. We call it Warmup Weekend (but we don’t mind when you submit, be it today or next week). Make some art, import it, and draw it on screen. Make some sounds, import them, and play them on cue. If you’re using a new development tool, figure out the development cycle. Learn how to make a release too!

Bullet point summary:

• No rules or limits. This is practice.
• Learn your development tools! Write some code, run it.
• Make some art, get it on screen, make it move.
• Print some text to the screen. Print some text to a log (if applicable).
• Make some sound, get it in game, make it play.
• If you’re motivated enough, make your experiments in to a game!
• Make something that should take “hours”, not 2 days.
• Then package it up, put it online.
• No time or day limit. But if you have no other plans this weekend, why not?

If you like what you’ve done, feel free to share it.

While Ludum Dare is typically an online event (make a game from the comfort of your home), many real world events happen around Ludum Dare. Most events have limited space, so RSVP ASAP! Here’s the list:

US and Canada

• Troy, NY – Tech Valley Game Space (new address)
• Pittsburgh, PA – Looking for Group PGH
• Lexington, KY – RunJumpDev
• Corvallis, OR – Corvallis Game Developers
• Longmont, CO – TinkerMill
• Fairfax, VA – George Mason University
• Richmond, VA – RVA Game Jams
• Seattle, WA – Seattle Hackathon
• Louisville, KY – Game Dev Lou
• New York, NY – Babycastles
• Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – SkullSpace
• Savannah, GA – Miskatonic Labs

Rest of the World

• Le Mans, France – le Silo
• Frankfurt am Main, Germany – Ludum Dare Pre-drinks @ Yours Australia Bar
• Manchester, UK – Madlab (waiting list)
• Adelaide, South Australia – Jamalaide
• Paris, France – Ludum Dare Paris
• Minsk, Belarus – Game Jam Belarus
• Coimbra, Portugal – Ludum Dare no Sotão da Casa das Artes
• Rivne, Ukraine – Ludum Dare Rivne
• Saint-Petersburg, Russia – D3C0D3
• Prague, Czech Republic – Ludum Dare 34 @ MFF
• Coventry, UK – University of Warwick
• Omsk, Russia – Old48
• Taipei, Taiwan – Taipei Hackerspace
• Aarhus, Denmark – Aarhus University
• Tehran, Iran – رویداد 72 ساعته بازی سازی
• Karlshamn, Sweden – BTH
• Osnabrueck, Germany – Innovationscentrum Osnabrück
• Brasília, Brazil – UDF
• Tenerife, Spain – LLHBC
• Arnhem, Netherlands – Wintergames Arnhem
• Skövde, Sweden – Sweden Game Arena

If you want your event on the list, post a comment letting me know where your event is. Be sure to include a link to further details (either here on the blog, or elsewhere).

You can view your results here:

My Results: ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/?action=me

The individual category results are just above your comments.

Top 100 Games

Check out winning competition and jam games here:

Compo Top 100: ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/?action=top
Jam Top 100: ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/?action=top&cat=Overall(Jam)

Winners are decided by the Overall category.

Congratulations to all the winners.

Category Winners

Here at Ludum Dare, being the best overall game isn’t the only way to win. Games are rated in 7 additional categories, with a special “Coolness” category highlighting people that went above and beyond to be sure you got a vote.

Categorical Top 25’s: ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/

*NOTE*: You can click on the titles of the categories for Top 100 lists per category.

Ludum Dare 34 – December 11th-14th Weekend!

We’ve got one final event for 2015 is coming up December 11th! Follow us on Twitter or join the mailing list to stay informed.

If that’s too far away, Zatyka has a boss MiniLD coming up this weekend for those looking to get an extra event in before December.

We’ll start dabbling with the new site in just a few weeks.

Thanks again everyone for making Ludum Dare great! We’ll see you again soon!

– Mike Kasprzak (PoV)

Theme Voting has begun! Tune in every day this week for a new round of themes. *

* Links above in Bold are still open. If you haven’t cast a vote yet, click the link to do it. End times for each round vary, and many cross over.

* If you get an error message about needing to log in to vote, and you are already logged in, then try refreshing your browser (CTRL+F5 in Firefox/IE), or in Chrome F12 then Right Click on Refresh and select “Empty Cache and Hard Reload”).

Special thanks to sorceress for preparing the theme list.

Over the past 3 weeks you suggested over 4000 themes! Wow! That’s a few too many, so let’s SLAUGHTER some!

This is our hot-or-not for Ludum Dare themes. Click the graphic above, and keep clicking until you can click no more! Every click helps, so click more and click often! Much appreciated!

As always, thanks again to sorceress for helping clean up the list.

REMEMBER: This is just Phase 1 of the theme vote. Next week, the top 80 themes from the slaughter will go head-to-head in 5 rounds of voting (Round 5 is best of 1-4). The winning theme will be announced at the start.

NEW: Monday morning, we’ve culled the lowest ~1000 rated themes. Offensive themes should be gone now.

NEW: Wednesday night, we’ve culled another ~1500 rated themes. That leaves just over 1300. Theme Voting week uses the top 80 unique themes from the slaughter.

While Ludum Dare is typically an online event (make a game from the comfort of your home), many real world events happen around Ludum Dare. Most events have limited space, so RSVP ASAP! Here’s the list:

US and Canada

• Troy, NY – Tech Valley Game Space
• Louisville, KY – GameDevLou
• Dallas, TX – Dallas Society of Play (More Info)
• Victoria, BC, Canada – UVic GameDev Club
• Portland, ME – Indie Game Meetup
• Boise, ID – Idaho Game Developers @ BoiseCodeWorks
• Los Angeles, CA – Crashspace (Culver City)
• Richmond, VA – RVA Game Jams
• Longmont, CO – The TinkerMill
• Logan, UT – Cache Valley Game Creators
• Calgary, AB, Canada – Calgary Game Developers
• Boston, MA – Kick-off Party @ KAYAK
• Bozeman, MT – Bozeman Game Jams
• New York, NY – Babycastles
• Lexington, KY – RunJumpDev
• Charlotte, NC – Game Developers of UNCC
• Eugene, OR – Bit Forest
• Knoxville, TN – Knoxville Game Design
• Burnaby, BC, Canada – BCIT Games Development Club
• Kansas City, MO – #LudumDareKC
• San Francisco, CA – Noisebridge

Rest of the World

• Wellington, New Zealand – Wellington Ludum Dare
• Las Palmas, Spain – SPEGC
• Beijing, China – Beijing Game Devs
• Makati, Philippines – Quickfire Games and Let’s Play Manila (More Info)
• Budapest, Hungary – Nemesys Games
• Omsk, Russia – OLD 48
• Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil – Fábrica de Ideias Coworking
• Lublin, Poland – Makerspace Lublin
• Novosibirsk, Russia – Siberian Game Jam
• Cyberjaya, Malaysia – Multimedia University Cyberjaya
• Adelaide, South Australia, Australia – Jamalaide
• Paris, France – Jam Shaker
• Minsk, Belarus – Game Jam Belarus
• Johannesburg, South Africa – Make Games SA
• Mykolaiv, Ukraine – Mykolaiv Gamedev Community
• San Sebastián, Spain – #PintxoLudumDare
• Dundee, Scotland – Dundee Makerspace
• Frankfurt, Germany – Escape Adventures (More Info)
• Skövde, Sweden – Sweden Game Jam
• Strasbourg, France – La Plage Digitale
• Oslo, Norway – Bitraf
• Curitiba, Brazil – Hotmilk

If you want your event on the list, post a comment letting me know where your event is. Be sure to include a link to further details (either here on the blog, or elsewhere).

Kicking off 2015 with a bang, here are the results:

How did I do?

You can view your results here:

My Results: ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=me

The individual category results are just above your comments.

Top 100 Games

Check out winning competition and jam games here:

Compo Top 100: ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=top
Jam Top 100: ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=top&cat=Overall(Jam)

Winners are decided by the Overall category.

Congratulations to all the winners.

Category Winners

Here at Ludum Dare, being the best overall game isn’t the only way to win. Games are rated in 7 additional categories, with a special “Coolness” category highlighting people that went above and beyond to be sure you got a vote.

Categorical Top 25’s: ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/

*NOTE*: You can click on the titles of the categories for Top 100 lists per category.

Thanks again everyone for making Ludum Dare great!

– Mike Kasprzak (PoV)