[gamecompo] Re: Intel’s March Developer Challenge

Date: 2010.03.03 | Category: Syndicated Mailing List Posts | Author: Mike Kasprzak

Okay, one little clarification I just heard back from Intel on
regarding their contest.

The 100 royalty matching prizes are only available to Windows apps, as
the AppUp Center is only available for Windows right now. The rest of
the prizes (the 250x $500 cash prizes and further prizes to be
announced March 9th) are available for both Windows AND Linux entries.

I had a couple people ask me directly about aspects of the Intel store
and the contest, so I just wanted to be sure anyone that didn’t also
got the memo.

Now back to your regularly scheduled mailing list silence.

- Mike Kasprzak (PoV)

[gamecompo] Intel’s March Developer Challenge

Date: 2010.03.02 | Category: Syndicated Mailing List Posts | Author: Mike Kasprzak

Hey everybody,

For those of you Windows and Linux developers that work in C/C++,
there’s a little contest run by Intel going on this month you may be
interested in. I wrote up a post on the Ludum Dare blog about it,
with some tips about the platform.

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2010/03/02/intels-march-developer-challenge/

I figured I’d pass this on to you guys, ’cause well, I won a Car and a
Trip to GDC in the last one… heh. . The next round of big fancy
prizes haven’t been announced yet, but there’s 250x $500 cash prizes
(Visa gift vouchers) and 100x royalty matching prizes available
already (or $2 per free download capped at $5k). It’s pretty insane
if you think about it.

Due March 31st.

So if you’ve got a sweet LD game you could polish up in a couple
weekends (or two sweet LD games), here’s a place for it.

Feel free to discuss it in the comments in that post above, but shhh!
That I won the trip too isn’t public knowledge yet.

- Mike Kasprzak (PoV)

[gamecompo] PyWeek number 10 in March

Date: 2010.03.01 | Category: Syndicated Mailing List Posts | Author: Richard Jones

The 10th (10th!) Python Game Programming Challenge will run at the end
of March. See http://pyweek.org/10/ for details.

Write a game in a week. In a team or individual.

Richard

[gamecompo] Ludum Dare 17 – April 23rd-25th Weekend

Date: 2010.03.01 | Category: Syndicated Mailing List Posts | Author: Mike Kasprzak

Hey everybody!

I’ve received a few requests now, so here is the announcement nice and early.

Ludum Dare 17 is scheduled for April 23rd-25th weekend. Themes can be
suggested on the wiki.

http://www.ludumdare.com/wiki/ld17:themes

Specifics will be announced as the date gets closer.

Also, stay tuned to ludumdare.com this month for the other 17, MiniLD
#17 hosted by Tenoch.

- Mike Kasprzak (PoV)

[gamecompo] Ludum Dare GDC Event – Wednesday 5:30 @ Metreon

Date: 2010.02.27 | Category: Syndicated Mailing List Posts | Author: Phil Hassey

Hey,

So this year at GDC we’re having an official Ludum Dare get together!

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2010/02/26/ludum-dare-gdc-event-wednesday-530-metreon/

Where: Metreon food court
When: Wednesday, March 10, at 5:30

So, show up, get some food, and we’ll have a good time!

See you there!
-Phil

Sorry, no missing archives

Date: 2010.02.27 | Category: GameCompo News | Author: Mike Kasprzak

It seems the mailing list system I’ve been using for the gamecompo mailing list doesn’t keep an archive. I do have a copy of all messages sent the last 3 years in my gmail box, but I wasn’t able to find a nice way of exporting them to something importable by wordpress. I can get the titles, dates and 1 line of text via an RSS feed, or I can forward all the messages but lose the dates. Neither is really an ideal solution.

Oh well. Instead, we’ll just have to start collecting them here automatically from now on.

- Mike K

Re: [gamecompo] gamecompo.com blog content?

Date: 2010.02.26 | Category: Syndicated Mailing List Posts | Author: Mike Kasprzak

I’ll look in to the archives, but in the mean time, this is a test of
the auto-poster. In about an hour or so, this message may get
auto-posted on the gamecompo.com blog.

Mike Kasprzak

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Donny Viszneki
wrote:
> Maybe the mailing list posts should just be mirrored to gamecompo.com?
> It would be nice to be able to see the mailing list archives. Are they
> available anywhere?

Ludum Dare 12: August 8th, Mini LD #2: July 4th

Date: 2008.06.24 | Category: Ludum Dare | Author: Mike Kasprzak

From the mailing list:

Hey there sports fans,

Ludum Dare 12 is coming up in about a month and a half. August 8th-10th weekend.

http://www.ludumdare.com

We’ll let you know the theme suggestion and voting details in the coming weeks.

Don’t want to wait that long?

Next Friday (July 4th weekend) is Mini LD #2, hosted by GirlFlash. You can read the announcement here:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2008/06/20/mini-ld48h-2/

Keep an eye on the site for the latest updates for Mini LD #2.

That’s it for now. See ya there.

—
Mike, Phil, and the #LudumDare crew

Ludum Dare, Mini LD48 #1 – Hosted by Hamumu

Date: 2008.05.27 | Category: Ludum Dare | Author: Mike Kasprzak

From the mailing list:

Hey everybody,

Big news about Ludum Dare.

First off, ludumdare.com is back.  After years of floating around the internets, we’re finally back home where it all started.

We’ve been extremely happy with how Ludum Dare 10 and 11 with Wordpress have worked out, so we made it official.  A bunch of us got together, threw some money in a pot, and set up a dedicated host.  Phil Hassey has already migrated the combined LD10 and LD11 site over to our new host.  If you’ve tried accessing anything off Phil’s Imitation Pickles site, you’ve already being redirected.

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/

The syndicated community feeds of user blogs have been isolated from the compo site, and now reside on a separate section called Planet Ludum.

http://www.ludumdare.com/planet/

If you have a development blog that mostly covers your game making and related efforts, let Phil or myself know, and we’ll syndicate you.  Be sure to have an RSS feed url handy.

Finally, we now have a work-in-progress hub website at the root, plus a news feed for those RSS inclined individuals.

http://www.ludumdare.com

We still have much work ahead of us.  Several unfinished pages (about), streamlining the site navigation, plus an endless wishlist of ways to expand and improve the community.  Think of us as now in perpetual Web 2.0 Beta. 

Next, a new non compo coming up in under 2 weeks.  Friday June 6th, Hamumu will be hosting the first Mini LD48 Compo.

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2008/05/27/announcement-mini-ld48-1-hamumu-style/

We’re trying something new here.  If things go according to plan, Mini LD Compos will be monthly.  If you’ve participated in our “non competitions” in the past, it’s very much like one of those.  They’re not judged competitions, but unlike the previous “non competitions”, somebody volunteers to be the host.  The host chooses the date, can choose to change/tweak any previously established rules, and the theme.  Ultimately, a host can choose to run their compo the classic way (theme voting), but one of the goals of the Mini LD Compos is to try some new things.  Be it to bring back some of the more experimental themes, or to ‘beta test’ new ideas for the compo process.

Mini LD’s are new and evolving addition to the community.  If you have any thoughts or feedback, get in contact with us on IRC or respond to the discussions on the compo blog.  Or if you’re a Ludum Dare veteran and want to try your hand at orchestrating a compo, visit the Wiki to claim a spot, and join us on IRC to discuss it.

http://www.ludumdare.com/wiki/

And one final note about the next event compo (Ludum Dare 12).  We don’t have a date set yet, but we’re (I’m) strongly considering (pushing) for some time in August 2008.  Stay tuned.

Thanks,
- Mike Kasprzak (PoV)

Ludum Dare #11 – Minimalist

Date: 2008.04.18 | Category: Ludum Dare | Author: Mike Kasprzak

From the mailing list:

Howdy sports fans,

The theme for Ludum Dare 11 is “Minimalist”.

If you haven’t already, join us by signing up at the blog.

http://www.imitationpickles.org/ludum/

Thanks everyone, and see you in 48.