Greetings Sports Fans,

Phil and I have been incredibly busy as of late, but it’s that time of year. Ludum Dare time.

The 15th Ludum Dare 48 hour competition is scheduled for this upcoming August 28th-30th weekend. As usual, theme voting will take place the week of, and the competition will start at the usual time.

Theme suggestions are now open, so share your ideas on the Wiki.

http://www.ludumdare.com/wiki/ld15:themes

Before I talk about the other stuff, I’d like to quickly let you know about Mini LD #11 this weekend… tomorrow actually. It’s hosted by Jovoc, so tune to the site tomorrow for the theme.

http://www.ludumdare.com/…/july-mini-ld/

Now, the other stuff.

As you may or may not have heard, Phil and I were both finalist in the IGF this year. We flew out to San Fransisco for GDC in March, and exhibited our iPhone games (Phil with Galcon and me with Smiles). Between everything that happened, we still managed to run a competition a month later in April. Somehow, that competition was our biggest one yet with an incredible turn out of 121 entries! So wow, it seems we’re surrounded by awesome.

Our hope was (and still is) to set some time aside to improve the site and how we run the competition. But wow… I’m not sure who’s to blame (the IGF or the “hotness” of the iPhone), but stuff since GDC and the IGF has certainly snowballed in to lots more work for us both (especially stuff right now). We’re going to do what we can to try and make things run smoother, but I wouldn’t expect the super-magical perfect revamp by the end of August. We’re both quite fond of and committed to the community, but timing is such a delicate thing.

As always, feel free to leave us comments and feedback (call us slackers, etc).

Regards,
Mike Kasprzak (AKA: PoV)

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