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.<\/p>\n
Theme suggestions are now open, so share your ideas on the Wiki.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/wiki\/ld15:themes<\/a><\/p>\n Before I talk about the other stuff, I\u2019d like to quickly let you know about Mini LD #11 this weekend\u2026 tomorrow actually. It\u2019s hosted by Jovoc, so tune to the site tomorrow for the theme.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/\u2026\/july-mini-ld\/<\/a><\/p>\n Now, the other stuff.<\/p>\n As you may or may not have heard, Phil and I were both finalist in the IGF<\/a> this year. We flew out to San Fransisco for GDC in March, and exhibited our iPhone games (Phil with Galcon<\/a> and me with Smiles<\/a>). 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<\/a>! So wow, it seems we\u2019re surrounded by awesome.<\/p>\n Our hope was (and still is) to set some time aside to improve the site and how we run the competition. But wow\u2026 I\u2019m not sure who\u2019s to blame (the IGF or the \u201chotness\u201d 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\u2019re going to do what we can to try and make things run smoother, but I wouldn\u2019t expect the super-magical perfect revamp by the end of August. We\u2019re 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).<\/p>\n Regards,![\";)\"](\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\"\/){kind=icon}
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