Short melody I made for the main menu of an old unfinished jam game.

https://jesusmg.bandcamp.com/track/nuclear-loop-labs-menu

#gamedev #gamejam #composing #music #gamemusic #ldjam

Ah yes, much better. #LDJam #LudumDare

Should I change #LDJam's close buttons? #LudumDare

Nachdem ich die letzten Wochen etwas Zeit investiert habe um mich in die Programmiersprache #Nim reinzufuchsen habe ich jetzt wieder #Haxe für mich entdeckt. Die Tools drumrum funktionieren einfach und es gibt mittlerweile Tools um #Haxe mit der #GodotEngine nutzen. Ich glaub ich weiß was ich zum nächsten #ldjam Nutzen werde. :blobcatbook:

Meta #Threads intends to join the Fediverse. We will hold them to that!

The fabled "XMPP problem" is only possible if the people & sources you follow (#LudumDare, #Itch, etc) choose to publish on threads.net.

For that reason, there won't be an official #LDJam account on threads.net. We toot from our instance: jammer.social

Once threads.net begins federating, we urge you to urge your favourite news, sources, companies, and personalities to do the same.

This is how we protect the Fediverse. ♥️

We've released our post- #ldjam version of our #tic80 puzzle game, Continuous Delivery!

https://congusbongus.itch.io/continuous-factory

It is free to play online, and we've packed 24 mind-bending levels. Can you beat them all?

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #pixelart #opensource

Ludum Dare throwback time!

I stumbled across a rare 10 page forum thread of us publicly organizing Ludum Dare 4. Usually this happened exclusively in #IRC.

About 4 pages in, Jovoc made a discovery: we were featured on Slash/dot.

Those were the days. 😋 #LDJam #LudumDare #History #GameJam

http://web.archive.org/web/20040807210957/http://www.ludumdare.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=291&forum=1

I've run into a situation where I could save myself a lot of trouble if I upgraded #PHP.

Unfortunately that means rebuilding the server. That said, I've been meaning to experiment with #Hashicorp #Terraform. 🤔

(some time passed)

Cool! Terraform is quite nice to use. I have a reference copy of my #Linode infrastructure exported and rebuilt for reference, and a new copy I can spin-up and destroy on demand. I still need to write provisioning (install) scripts though. #LDJam

Ludum Dare's history as told by files uploaded to Wordpress (roughly 2007-2016). #LDJam #LudumDare

It's been a while since the legacy #LDJam website's server has been booted.

I'm starting off today by taking a fresh database snapshot, before bulk-copying the image uploads.

Now that I have all the pieces, my goal is to migrate the legacy #LDJam website data over the weekend. Changing names, emails, and recovering data from unlinked accounts will come after.

Starting next week, I need to find sponsor(s) for Ludum Dare 54 in September, because....😅 #LudumDare #Migration

Was wrapping up the build for the demo for #steamnextfest and I realised how much the game have changed since #ldjam #ludumdare #gameDev #soloDev #indieDev

The core idea of the game is still there, some cards ideas are still there, but the UI, mechanics etc is so different from how it was. Heck, even the name "Crop Rotation" doesn't make sense now. 🤷‍♂️

The demo is ready on steam and if you are interested, the LD version is over at itch.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2348090/Crop_Rotation/
https://zwodahs.itch.io/ld-52-crop-rotation

New video about my Ludum Dare 53 entry! (No I'm not late..)

https://youtu.be/lpDL8ufhklY

#indiedev #indiegame #GodotEngine #gamedev #ldjam

I need to run a quick errand, but when I return I'm going to run some experiments with #Pandoc (which BTW is from the same author #Djot).

The only blocker on migrating the legacy #LDJam data over is what to do with all the HTML content. If Pandoc can `.md` it, that's huge. 😃

Part of me wants to go directly from #HTML to Djot, but if I'm a good boy I'll stick with HTML to #Markdown, then do a massive Markdown to Djot port a different day. 😋

(Also, holy shit, I just discovered #pandoc, a universal document converter from the creator of #Djot! I need to run some tests, but this might be something I can use to convert the old #LDJam HTML blog post data into Commonmark! OMG, I was dreading having to write my own tool. 😆)

It also makes me worried about the impact of auto-tagging. Say if Ludum Dare was to automatically include #LudumDare, #LDJam, #GameDev, and #GameJam on ldjam.com posts we federate, they could overwhelm the tags, and potentially flood most #Mastodon servers. 🤔

Ah. Right. Kinda difficult to configure the local VM with no way to make users. 😅 #LDJam

Wrote a little post-mortem for our latest #LDJam game. In short, don't make a 3D game if you don't have a 3D artist in your team. X_X

https://hardweird.net/post/tofu-postmortem/

Did some work last night on importing the legacy #LDJam data. Managed to decode everything, including both of the game submission systems. The original submission was a bit tricky to figure out, as it ties into WordPress post taxonomies (categories and tags). That said, the ratings are given to individual users content under a taxonomy, rather than a game or post, so matching up the content is a little awkward. At this point I just need to figure out what to extract, and where to put it.

141st place out of 2.000+ entries! My best score overall!

A top 100 art spot is again nice too!

I guess our jokes need a bit of work but other than that, it was a great succes! #LDJam #ludumdare

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/hexpress