pighead10
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| 20 Apr 2012 11:19 AM |
Ludum Dare is a competition where you have to create a game from scratch in 48 hours. It has a very well built community and has a few hundred entries!
You can use any language or tool you like, as long as it's free to use - frameworks on wikis, C++, Java, Love2d, SFML, anything. All content for your game must be created within the 48 hours with a few exceptions, such as personal code libraries (which need to be published and shared via a blog post) and logo screens. Your game must be based, however abstractly, on a theme which is announced as soon as the competition starts, such as "Evolution" (which has nearly been the theme many times before, but never been the theme), "Minimalist", "Friends as enemies", etc.
To enter, just create an account on their website!
Who's going to enter? |
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| 20 Apr 2012 12:20 PM |
| I'm soo watching this live. |
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SQLi
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| 20 Apr 2012 12:35 PM |
I might, but I can picture going up against everyone else and failing miserably.
They need something like this, but for website developers and designers. |
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| 20 Apr 2012 12:36 PM |
| You could always just not enter officially and do it for fun. |
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| 20 Apr 2012 12:44 PM |
| I would enter but, I don't think I possess the skills to create a worthwhile game. |
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pighead10
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| 20 Apr 2012 12:50 PM |
It really, really doesn't matter how well you do. There is a "game jam" if you don't want to follow those tough rules - you get an extra day plus you can use extra stuff, and you can work with other people.
Last time, my game was awful - basically a cube that fired cones at other cubes. Like a dimmed version of space invaders. You get voted on other things as well - innovation, "coolness" and community. |
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pighead10
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| 20 Apr 2012 12:51 PM |
"I'm soo watching this live."
Not sure what you plan on watching, but people do streams. I am goingt o stream this time. so don't laugh at my amazingly terrible coding! |
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| 20 Apr 2012 12:55 PM |
^
Link me pl0x? What language are you going to use? |
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SQLi
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| 20 Apr 2012 01:19 PM |
@Brandonhare Yeah, that's probably what I'll do.
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| 20 Apr 2012 01:59 PM |
| I entered last time, but life is getting in my way this time, so I won't be able to enter. However, I am going to try and enter in the August one, as well as the December one. |
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Varp
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| 20 Apr 2012 02:29 PM |
Strictly speaking, I should probably do schoolwork over the weekend, but the Ludum Dare is probably the most enjoyable thing I've yet found, so...
I'm planning to use Processing this time, since I've had some issues with SFML and haven't yet had time to familiarize myself with SDL (or any other libraries). |
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nightname
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| 20 Apr 2012 04:01 PM |
"Strictly speaking, I should probably do schoolwork over the weekend, but the Ludum Dare is probably the most enjoyable thing I've yet found, so..."
Same problem here. I shouldn't actually participate due to exams. Heck! I shouldn't even be on ROBLOX - but hopefully 2 days cannot hurt.
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pighead10
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| 20 Apr 2012 04:11 PM |
Why would exams mean you can't do anything you want over the weekend? I make it a habit not to do any work at all during the weekends. We have exams, and at most we get 2 hours of homework a week. Even if you wanted, for whatever reason, to do revision, why would that mean you shouldn't be on roblox at all?
I love ludum dare, because I love programming and completing something but I never have the willpower to finish it because when I get stuck/mildly bored I "can always finish it later". With ludum dare that's not the case, so I'm forced to program not stop!
In answer to what someone else said, I will be using C++ with SFML. |
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pighead10
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| 20 Apr 2012 04:14 PM |
" but life is getting in my way this time,"
Ignore life, enter ludum dare. That's what I do... who needs a life anyways |
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| 20 Apr 2012 04:59 PM |
"Ignore life, enter ludum dare."
I did that last time, and as a result almost failed several classes due to getting behind on work. This time I have even MORE work than last, even though I have all of next week off from school. I have my speech to write an memorize, as it has to be presented the week I get back, I have a book to finish reading (and dear god reading A Tale of Two Cities is boring, and it doesn't help that I'm not even half way through it even though I'm supposed to be), I have a few lab reports to write for Biology, some programs to write for Hardware Programming and Design (which is somewhat of a relief from my other work since I get to program for school, but they're complicated programs that I can't test until I get back to school), and review to do for Algebra II so I can be prepared to get over 100% on a quiz that we're taking a day or two after we get back (I must get over 100% on it, I'm aiming to get 100% for the year in that class, and the only way is if I get at least 115% on all quizzes from here on out).
I'm also feeling incredibly crappy this weekend. Crappy feeling means cloudy thoughts, and that doesn't really help with programming. |
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pighead10
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| 20 Apr 2012 05:06 PM |
" I have my speech to write an memorize," - Memorise just the overall structure and improvise. Works a lot better as long as you don't stutter. I did that and got top of my class.
And what the heck, how do you have so much work? What school stage are you in?
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pighead10
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| 20 Apr 2012 05:07 PM |
| You can "fail" classes? When I said "ignore life" I thought you were talking about either needlessly revising for exams or what normal people consider "life" which is even more pointless, not a stupidly large amount of necessary work. |
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| 20 Apr 2012 05:19 PM |
"Memorise just the overall structure and improvise. Works a lot better as long as you don't stutter."
I stutter when speaking in front many people. I tried this with my speech last year and just barely got an acceptable grade on the speech.
"You can "fail" classes? When I said "ignore life" I thought you were talking about either needlessly revising for exams or what normal people consider "life" which is even more pointless, not a stupidly large amount of necessary work."
Yes, I can fail classes. Getting below 70% is considered a failing grade, and if I get below 70% in a class for a year average I don't receive credit for it, and most classes (like the ones I was on the verge of failing) must be retaken. School basically is my life at this point ;-; |
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pighead10
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| 20 Apr 2012 05:22 PM |
| I don't understand your school system... Getting below 70% in what?! For me, school is work for exams which give you qualifications. If you don't get your qualifications, you can either retake the qualification IF IT ALLOWS (not likely) or, what normally happens, just move on and accept the qualifications you have. Do you take exams for your classes for no reason, or is there some recognition like a qualification? |
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| 20 Apr 2012 05:26 PM |
"I don't understand your school system..."
I'll just sum it up for you: American school systems before university suck. |
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pighead10
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| 20 Apr 2012 05:32 PM |
What it sounds like is that you have to work towards passing some exam to get you through the class, without getting any sort of qualification or anything (although I must be wrong there...). Also, what school year (roughly) are you in to be getting that much work, or has it been the same? I was getting at most about 4 hours a week between years 7 - 8, and now I barely get 2 hours a week, which is still rare.
Also, there's none of this having to "pass" a class. The class is there to teach you for an external qualification, which you then take and get industry recognised grades in that. The idea of "failing" a class is completely unheard of - in years without external qualifications - i.e. pre year 9 - you take end of unit tests which determine what set you will be in for the next year. For example, we don't have "geometry" classes which I've heard people talking about - we have one "maths" class, which progresses through a number of different topics. If you suck at one, too bad, you take an end of topic test and do badly, boo hoo. |
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| 20 Apr 2012 05:46 PM |
"What it sounds like is that you have to work towards passing some exam to get you through the class, without getting any sort of qualification or anything (although I must be wrong there...)."
Nope. We do assignments and take tests and quizzes and whatnot throughout the year, and the grades we get in each of those is averaged into a quarterly grade (though some assignments are weighted more than others) and the year is broken up into four quarters. In years 9-12 (high school), there ARE two exams that you must pass (midyear and final), but if your average grade between each quarter is lower than a 70% (at least, at my school. Some schools are below 60%, and some even below 50%), then we receive a failure for that class. The grade, as I have said, is determined by the grades you receive on other assignments.
"Also, what school year (roughly) are you in to be getting that much work, or has it been the same? I was getting at most about 4 hours a week between years 7 - 8, and now I barely get 2 hours a week, which is still rare."
Year 10 (sophomore year in high school). I get more work than most kids, though, because I take all higher-level courses (Honors and AP. Honors is supposed to be the smart kids class, and AP (Advanced Placement) classes are college (the equivalent of university to you) level classes, where the difficulty isn't regulated by the school, but the College Board).
"Also, there's none of this having to "pass" a class. The class is there to teach you for an external qualification, which you then take and get industry recognised grades in that. The idea of "failing" a class is completely unheard of - in years without external qualifications - i.e. pre year 9 - you take end of unit tests which determine what set you will be in for the next year. For example, we don't have "geometry" classes which I've heard people talking about - we have one "maths" class, which progresses through a number of different topics. If you suck at one, too bad, you take an end of topic test and do badly, boo hoo."
I wish that's what American school systems were like (well, they are like that in some states, but they're implemented incredibly poorly. I have a friend who lives in another state whose math classes are like that, but everything is on such a simplified level that he's learning less there than he was when he went to the same school as me). My state is moving towards a "concept"/"learning target" based system, where the only basis of passing a class is whether or not you understand different concepts that the class is supposed to teach, and whether or not you can score proficiently on tests for those concepts. The only classes where I've seen this even partly implemented, though, are Algebra II, Pre-Calculus, and Physics. Even in those cases, you can still fail the class for not getting a high enough grade overall, but concepts are most of the grade, so you'd have to fail a lot of them in order to fail the class. |
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| 20 Apr 2012 05:49 PM |
"Ignore life, enter ludum dare. That's what I do... who needs a life anyways"
Everyone has a life...
You say you are going to live stream? How do I watch you? |
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Varp
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| 20 Apr 2012 06:38 PM |
"Year 10 (sophomore year in high school). I get more work than most kids, though, because I take all higher-level courses (Honors and AP. Honors is supposed to be the smart kids class, and AP (Advanced Placement) classes are college (the equivalent of university to you) level classes, where the difficulty isn't regulated by the school, but the College Board). "
I'm studying for an AP test, although my school doesn't actually offer AP courses. It's a good deal though: pay $80 now then take interesting classes when you go to college and have to pay $40,000 a year (or less or more, depending). |
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| 20 Apr 2012 07:47 PM |
"I'm studying for an AP test, although my school doesn't actually offer AP courses."
I'm surprised your school doesn't offer any AP courses. Anyways, the AP exam is indeed an amazing deal, as it's far cheaper than a semester at college for the same course you're taking the exam on, and you get to feel all smart having passed a college level exam and having obtained college credit while still in high school. |
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