Ludum Dare

The THEME for Ludum Dare 60 is... Old Tech Good luck! ldjam.com #LDJam

Fingers crossed we are in the clear on the "PHP2SHELL" venerability, and the ldjam.com website is working as it did before. 🤞 #LDJAM

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Welcome to Ludum Dare 60! Final Round Theme Voting is live! ldjam.com Go vote! #LDJam PS: New user invite code is `sixtober`

Ludum Dare Theme Voting will kick off tonight: Two Rounds, followed by a Final Round. #LDJam

Sign-up emails work again. The new user invitation code for LD60 is "sixtober". NOTE: New accounts are invisible until approved manually, so please make a post or say something human sounding in your profile. #LDJAM

Image uploads should work again (lol, we ran out of disk space). #LDJam

If you made a web game for #ldjam this weekend, share it on NG with the #ludumdare59 tag! We'll be showcasing a bunch of entries.

68 hours have passed! #LDJam

47 hours have passed! Keep working until the deadline! Compo Submission Hour begins then! Jammers keep jamming. #LDJam

The Theme for Ludum Dare 59 is... Signal #LDJam

Ludum Dare 59 kicks off in roughly 2 and a half hours! #LDJam

I'm alive. 💜 Ludum Dare 59 kicks off in ~10 hours! Final Round Theme Voting is on! My sincere apologies if this is the first you've heard (It's been a difficult few days 😅). ldjam.com Invite code is "FIVENINE". I'm about to catch-up account approvals, and will continue throughout the day. #LDJam

I'm sorry to anyone who is convinced that running a "Ludum Dare" to create the successor to "Ludum Dare" is against the spirit of Ludum Dare. 🤷 #LDJam #NewLD

A write-up about how I've ruined Ludum Dare. I would have preferred something less hostile and more constructive, but this fits the anger stage of grief. 🤷 Beware some of the comments are sickening, but folks have grievances. Better to air them somewhere than keep them bottled up. 💜 #LDJam #NewLD

Ludum Dare 59 Theme Voting will start shortly (in ~1 hour). I will then take care of the currently outstanding new account approvals, then dive into my backlog of account change requests (in my email inbox). #LDJam

I *DARE YOU* to make a BETTER LUDUM DARE! You have 3 years! Until then, we got 6 more events to run! LETS GO! PS: I chose the word "scheduled" for a reason. I will step in if needed, but I'd like to hang up my apron after we say goodbye in October 2028 (April 2029?). #LDJam Looong blog post here:

ANNOUNCEMENT: I will stop running "scheduled" Ludum Dare events in 3 years! "Scheduled" is the key word though. My hope is that leaders within the community can build something better, more welcoming, that honors our legacy. They've got 3 years to figure it out. You even get to study me. 😋 #LDJam

Apologies for the radio silence (trying not to become homeless): Ludum Dare 59 *IS* coming up on April 17th weekend! Use invite code "FiveNine" if you need an account. Theme Suggestions are currently open! Slaughter will begin Tuesday. #LDJam #LD59

Ludum Dare's data is on Akamai/Linode, but some of my things are on CloudFlare. Welp, I've been "chosen" by CloudFlare Accounting for a "Account Review"—something I don't have time for as I continue struggling to find work 😢—so my sincerest apologies for any personal and #LDJam service outages. 😖

Happy 10th Advent of Code! Two good changes: *ONLY* 12 days of puzzles (meaning we all have a better 100% chance), and though they've axed the global leaderboards (gee thanks for ruining them AI 😖), they kept the private ones. 👍 So yes, I will be sharing a private leaderboard for #LDJam & friends.

Results for Ludum Dare 58 are now live! ldjam.com See you again next year, April 17th, for Ludum Dare 59!! #LDJam (Fingers crossed @distraction.engineer will be employed then because *oof*, 2025 has really sucked for them and expenses)

Please give this game some love!! Due to an unfortunate incident, no ratings were recorded for this Ludum Dare 58 game. The issue has been since resolved, but regrettably this game still got stuck without a final rating. 🤦‍♂️ #LDJam ldjam.com/events/ludum...

Results for Ludum Dare 58 *should* be up earlier than the countdown clock suggests. @distraction.engineer just needs to verify there's nothing fishy. 2-3 hours if all goes smoothly, much longer if not. #LDJam

And the Ludum Dare 58 Jam has ended. It's now submission hour! Package up and submit your game now! Then, start playing and rating your peers games! NOTE: If you're account is new, it may take a few minutes @distraction.engineer to approve you. Don't fret! They is on it! #LDJam

70 hours have passed! Two hours left in the Jam. Keep working until the deadline! Submission hour begins then. #LDJam

The Ludum Dare 58 Compo event has ended! It is now submission hour! Package up and submit your games now! Jammers keep jamming. #LDJam

#LDJam people! If you're using Unity: Make sure to do WebGL! If you hadn't seen Unity just disclosed that there is vulnerabilities in older versions that affect Desktop Windows/Linux/Max! WebGL is better AND safer for everyone! It makes it so people don't need to download/setup anything to play!

46 hours have passed. The compo ends in 2 hours! Keep working until the deadline, as "Submission Hour" kicks off then. Jammers keep jamming. #LDJam

43 hours have passed. The compo ends in 5 hours. Keep working until the deadline, as "Submission Hour" kicks off then. Jammers keep jamming. #LDJam

The Theme for Ludum Dare 58 is ... Collector ldjam.com #LDJam

Ludum Dare 58's theme announcement is so very soon! #LDJam

Ludum Dare 58 kicks off in 6 hours! Cast your vote! ldjam.com #LDJam

Theme Voting Rounds 1 and 2 end in about 5'ish hours. Go cast your vote if you haven't yet! ldjam.com PS: if you need an invite code, see the latest news post. #LDJam

😵‍💫 ... Ludum Dare 58 Theme Voting rounds 1 and 2 are live. #LDJam ldjam.com

🎉 I found that if I prop it up just right, with a certain charger, I'm able to charge my laptop. Anyway, I made an #LDJam post. Letting it juice up some more before I edit other things for the event. Theme Suggestions open. ldjam.com

So uh, is anyone looking to hire a developer with an uncomfortable amount of knowledge about #atproto and #activitypub, experience building from scratch and running a social network (@ludumdare.com), hacking on GPU drivers/network protocols/the Linux kernel, plus a couple decades as a pro gamedev? 🤷

Check it out! @sarajs.games is playing your @gamemaker.io Ludum Dare games! #LDJam

All your games are in and @sarajs.games is downloading them so that they’re ready for the stream on Twitch Sun, May 4th, 2025 (16:00 BST). Get a first look at a bunch of Ludum Dare games, and see what advice an expert developer gives them. 🔗 twitch.tv/sarajayess

PS: Results for Ludum Dare 57 are live (at last). #LDJam ldjam.com/events/ludum...