Re: [pygame] Oh, no, it's on again

[Pete Shinners <pete@shinners.org>]

Richard Jones wrote:
> The 3rd Ludum Dare 48-hour game programming competition is coming up on April 
> 4th-6th. More info to be found here:
>
>   http://ludumdare.com/articles/?link=v&arid=57
>
> I recommend it to everyone, it's a blast.
these contests truly do separate the men from the wee boys. and i'd say 
just by entering you are in the 'men' category. heh heh. i've done the 
last two of these competitions and they really are fun. but be prepared 
to block out the entire weekend. each game must be created entirely by a 
single author, including graphics and sound. just trying to get an entry 
together will teach you more about game programming than a lot of books 
and tutorials.

several of our regular pygame folks have been involved with these 
competitions. it is open to any programming language and just about any 
game development library. usually about 20% of the entries are done in 
python with pygame, which is excellent!

last time through i somehow won the contest. all contestants vote on the 
entries. i'm afraid this time around i won't be able to join (big 
weekend for me). but i'll definitely try to be around once in awhile to 
help our scrambling pygame troopers.

you can check out previous contests. i have special 'pygame' pages for 
the entries too, but i've lagged big on the 2nd contest, here's all the 
links.

http://pygame.org/ludumcontest1.shtml
http://pygame.org/ludumcontest2.shtml

hmm, there was a nice page with all the voting results somewhere on 
ludumdare.com, but i locate it.

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