Happy 10th Advent of Code! Two good changes: *ONLY* 12 days of puzzles (meaning we all have a better 100% chance), and though they've axed the global leaderboards (gee thanks for ruining them AI 😖), they kept the private ones. 👍 So yes, I will be sharing a private leaderboard for #LDJam & friends.

Results for Ludum Dare 58 are now live! ldjam.com See you again next year, April 17th, for Ludum Dare 59!! #LDJam (Fingers crossed @distraction.engineer will be employed then because *oof*, 2025 has really sucked for them and expenses)

Please give this game some love!! Due to an unfortunate incident, no ratings were recorded for this Ludum Dare 58 game. The issue has been since resolved, but regrettably this game still got stuck without a final rating. 🤦‍♂️ #LDJam ldjam.com/events/ludum...

Results for Ludum Dare 58 *should* be up earlier than the countdown clock suggests. @distraction.engineer just needs to verify there's nothing fishy. 2-3 hours if all goes smoothly, much longer if not. #LDJam

And the Ludum Dare 58 Jam has ended. It's now submission hour! Package up and submit your game now! Then, start playing and rating your peers games! NOTE: If you're account is new, it may take a few minutes @distraction.engineer to approve you. Don't fret! They is on it! #LDJam

70 hours have passed! Two hours left in the Jam. Keep working until the deadline! Submission hour begins then. #LDJam

The Ludum Dare 58 Compo event has ended! It is now submission hour! Package up and submit your games now! Jammers keep jamming. #LDJam

#LDJam people! If you're using Unity: Make sure to do WebGL! If you hadn't seen Unity just disclosed that there is vulnerabilities in older versions that affect Desktop Windows/Linux/Max! WebGL is better AND safer for everyone! It makes it so people don't need to download/setup anything to play!

46 hours have passed. The compo ends in 2 hours! Keep working until the deadline, as "Submission Hour" kicks off then. Jammers keep jamming. #LDJam

43 hours have passed. The compo ends in 5 hours. Keep working until the deadline, as "Submission Hour" kicks off then. Jammers keep jamming. #LDJam

The Theme for Ludum Dare 58 is ... Collector ldjam.com #LDJam

Ludum Dare 58's theme announcement is so very soon! #LDJam

Ludum Dare 58 kicks off in 6 hours! Cast your vote! ldjam.com #LDJam

Theme Voting Rounds 1 and 2 end in about 5'ish hours. Go cast your vote if you haven't yet! ldjam.com PS: if you need an invite code, see the latest news post. #LDJam

😵‍💫 ... Ludum Dare 58 Theme Voting rounds 1 and 2 are live. #LDJam ldjam.com

🎉 I found that if I prop it up just right, with a certain charger, I'm able to charge my laptop. Anyway, I made an #LDJam post. Letting it juice up some more before I edit other things for the event. Theme Suggestions open. ldjam.com

12 hours left... #Silksong

So uh, is anyone looking to hire a developer with an uncomfortable amount of knowledge about #atproto and #activitypub, experience building from scratch and running a social network (@ludumdare.com), hacking on GPU drivers/network protocols/the Linux kernel, plus a couple decades as a pro gamedev? 🤷

Check it out! @sarajs.games is playing your @gamemaker.io Ludum Dare games! #LDJam

If you still have one (🤢), go give this Tweet a like, and drop a comment @ Tim Sweeny daring or challenging him to make (fund) an "Epic" open source gaming Linux distro next. Everyone wins. 🐧 #EpicMegaOS

All your games are in and @sarajs.games is downloading them so that they’re ready for the stream on Twitch Sun, May 4th, 2025 (16:00 BST). Get a first look at a bunch of Ludum Dare games, and see what advice an expert developer gives them. 🔗 twitch.tv/sarajayess

PS: Results for Ludum Dare 57 are live (at last). #LDJam ldjam.com/events/ludum...

If there was an #LDJam award for integrity, it goes to Nine Lives Deep. 🏆

Apologies for the delay. @distraction.engineer is getting over their shock from what was discovered. Will share more another day. Results should be live within the hour.

Sincere apologies, but we wont be doing Live Results for Ludum Dare 57. We discovered some suspicious rating data we will be purging, but @distraction.engineer needs a bit more time to dump it for later analysis. 🚓 Stay tuned. All results should drop as scheduled, but TBD ldjam.com/events/ludum...

"Hey Google, what does 'Ludum the Dares' mean?" and other progressively worse interpretations of #LDJam lingo by Google Gemini.

We Play Your Ludum Dare Games! If you’ve ever made a game for @ludumdare.com over the years we want to see it, and so does @sarajs.games our host. Submit your games by Wed, April 30th 🔗 forms.gle/QkbmATSqLiAi...

The Ludum Dare 57 Jam has ended! It is now submission hour! Package up and submit your game now! #LDJam #LD57

Fun fact: 40% of Ludum Dare 57 users from the past 4 days connected to ldjam.com via IPv6!! 🤯 Of course that doesn't mean they don't have IPv4 addresses, or they don't have access to the internet via an IPv4 gateway, but IPv6 is the address that resolved first. Something to think about. #LDJam

71 hours have passed! The Ludum Dare 57 Jam ends in 1 hour! Keep working until the deadline! Submission hour begins then. #LDJam #LD57

60 hours have passed. #LDJam #LD57

48 hours have passed and the Compo has ended! Submission Hour begins now! Package up and submit your compo games! Playing and Rating will begin shortly. Jammers keep jamming. #LDJam #LD57

45 hours have passed. The Compo ends in 3 hours! Keep working until the deadline, submission hour begins then! Jammers keep jamming. #LDJam #LD57

GDC is cool, but it'd be neat if a queer gamedev conference in Canada got big too. Just saying'. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Neat feature: masking is required indoors. Does that make it a double safe space? 😷 bsky.app/profile/qgco...

Nearly 40 hours into Ludum Dare 57, right now one of the best times to start exploring the #LDJam blog feed, as games are really starting taking shape. ldjam.com Here are some examples. 💜 ldjam.com/users/norah/... ldjam.com/users/gao-mi... ldjam.com/users/simex/... ldjam.com/users/jern/f...

12 hours have passed. #LDJam #LD57

The theme for Ludum Dare 57 is ... Depths #LDJam #LD57

Ludum Dare 57 begins in 1 hour. #LDJam

Make a game! #LDJam #LD57 ldjam.com

#ldjam let's gooooo

Game devs! Are any of you also hyped for Ludum Dare? It's this weekend, the theme announcement happens in 3 hrs from now! HYPE!! ldjam.com #gamedev #gamejam #ludumdare #ldjam

Shout-out and a big thank you to @gamemaker.io for sponsoring Ludum Dare 57! ❤️ #LDJam #LD57 Check out our getting started resources page here: ldjam.com/events/ludum...

If you'd like to try-out @audiokinetic.bsky.social's Wwise audio production suite in your Ludum Dare game, you can request access here: www.audiokinetic.com/en/community... (I'm not sure if we need to manually approve requests, but feel free to poke @distraction.engineer if you're in limbo) #LDJam

Did someone say DK? 🦍 There are 4 hours left to help us decide Ludum Dare 57's theme! ldjam.com #LDJam #LD57

An #LD57 wallpaper by Coderaurus. #LDJam ldjam.com/events/ludum...

Ahhhhhhhhh! We're only 6'ish hours away! #LDJam

@audiokinetic.bsky.social Hello! I had a participant of our game jam request access to WWise. I've gone ahead and requested access via the game jam form.

🚨 Ludum Dare 57 kicks off in hours! We are so proud to be an official sponsor and help keep the Jam alive for 2025. Who's in?! 🔗 gamemaker.io/en/blog/game... @ludumdare.com

Ludum Dare 57 kicks off later today! If you haven't already, you can sign up using the code "BlueSkiLD57", then cast your vote in the Final Round Theme Vote! ldjam.com Big thanks to @gamemaker.io for sponsoring the event! #LDJam #LD57