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  • Ludum Dare 29 Winners Announced
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    Ludum Dare 29 Winners Announced

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    The winners of April's Ludum Dare 29 game jam and competition have been announced. The winners are divided into two categories, with one batch having entered the 48-hour solo competition, and the other batch having participated in the 72-hour game jam event. The 2,497 games produced during the Ludum Dare 29 event were judged over by the game developers themselves.Winners for best overall game for the 48-hour competition and 72-hour jam respectively: The Sun and Moon by Managore and Scuba Bear by _Rilem.Winners for most fun game for the 48-hour competition and 72-hour jam respectively: Hot Diggity by DragonXVI and Yojimbrawl!by Black Ships Fill The Sky.Winners for best graphics for the 48-hour competition and 72-hour jam respectively: Beneath the Cave by Feiss and LAIR M.D. by RetroEpic.
  • 5 Great Games from Ludum Dare 29
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    5 Great Games from Ludum Dare 29

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    Every April, August, and December, Ludum Dare takes over my developer-filled Twitter feed as the event's thousands of participants set aside their weekend specifically for game development. Depending on if they are participating in the Competition or the more rules-relaxed Jam, developers have 48 or 72 hours respectively, to assemble their game. The rigorous 48-hour competition restricts game developers to work alone on their games and develop them from scratch. The 72-hour jam allows room for groups and those groups can borrow assets from their previous work.With the theme "Beneath the Surface" for the 29th Ludum Dare event, developers crammed their collective creativity last weekend to create nearly 2,500 unique games. Some games took the theme literally, making a game about going under the surface of the sea or underground. While others, took the theme more figuratively. Here are some of the highlights.
  • Minecraft’s Notch releases Drowning in Problems, a text-based life simulator
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    Minecraft’s Notch releases Drowning in Problems, a text-based life simulator

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    How has your day been? Good? Don't worry, we can fix that. Just click here and have a play of Drowning in Problems, a strange, statistical, and super depressing birth-to-death simulator from Markus "Notch" Persson, aka the man behind Minecraft.The game was Notch's contribution to the most recent Ludum Dare (a semi-regular gamejam that has resulted in ton of cool stuff over the years). The theme for Ludum Dare 29 was "beneath the surface."If you're about to dive into it, I'll warn you in advance: Drowning in Problems is less a video game than it is an interactive piece of art. Some, like myself, love experiments like this. If you're hoping for something with a jump button and a high score, you're going to be sorely disappointed.If you're looking for something that will make you question the absurdity of our hamster wheel lives, however, you've come to the right place. 
  • Ludum Dare 28 winners have been announced
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    Ludum Dare 28 winners have been announced

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    The winners for the 28th Ludum Dare game jam and competition were announced earlier in the week. Held from December 13th to the 16th, Ludum Dare 28 tasked developers with creating a game around the theme "You Only Get One". Over two-thousand games were entered into both the competition and the game jam. Developers partaking in the competition had only 48 hours to develop their game and could only work alone. Participants in the jam were allowed to group up, given an extra 24 hours, and could use outside assets, within their final game.The winner of Best Overall Game for the competition was awarded to One Take by Daniël Haazen. In One Take players, must film a sequence for a movie in just one take. After winning, Haazen has announced that he will be developing a post-compo version.As for the game jam, the Best Overall winner is Titan Souls, by Mark Foster, David Fenn, and Andrew Gleeson. In Titan Souls, players must use just one arrow to slay four mighty titans.