LD 55 will be my 20th ludum dare and I'm as excited as always for it!

My first one was back in LD 32 and failed miserably to make the game... then I joined again on LD 35 and managed to finish my project, it was awesome!

After that I did a small break and came back on LD 38, with this new website (the old one was ludumdare dot com) and I've been joining every single event since. Meaning that this one will also be my 18th consecutive jam.

I'll be using, once again, my own 3D game engine for the event and I'll try to make all the art by myself too. There is a small chance of me to do a 2D game using Python + PyGame instead, depending on the theme... so we'll see!

Oh, and also, since I've been doing this for a while...

Here is some Tips for Beginners:

just in case it's your first time joining it:

1 - Do NO justify the THEME with STORY. This is a terrible idea and never work. Small Jam games usually works better with little to no story as possible, so you should try to come up with A GAME MECHANIC that justifies the theme instead.

2 - If you can't finish the MAIN MECHANIC in an HOUR, move on. That's for real: it's okay to try two or three different ideas for the jam (I usually try up to 5!), but it's important to be able to finish the main mechanic as fast as possible. Don't count on the entire jam period to do that, because this is a better idea (next and final tip):

3 - Focus on Polishing a SMALL IDEA instead of developing a BIG ONE! Putting something FUN together in an hour or so and spending the rest of the Jam polishing it is WAY BETTER than spending the entire jam trying to make some uncertain idea to work.

Good luck, everyone!

Let's make some awesome games!