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How to Survive Ludum Dare

By GBGames, on April 28th, 2006

mrfun has posted A Guide to LD48, aka, How to Not Crack Under the Incredible Pressure.

I thought it was a pretty humorous look at the intense preparation needed to succeed at Ludum Dare. Good luck!

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Impossible

4/28/2006 at 9:21 pm

You should join up man!
GBGames

4/29/2006 at 9:18 am

I would love to, but I already had plans for this weekend. If they give enough notice for next time, I’ll make sure it is on my schedule.
PoW

4/30/2006 at 2:41 am

Notice ‘eh? There’s a mailing list at gamecompo.com
GBGames

4/30/2006 at 6:12 pm

Mailing list, eh? I suppose I should be on that list, then. B-)
Impossible

5/1/2006 at 12:34 am

Well I have an entry up. Its not finished at all, but its kind of cool. Maybe I’ll clean it up some (sounds, more levels, title screen, win\lose conditions ) and post a new version. http://www.ludumdare.com/files/390_Swarm.zip if you want to check it out. If you feel like looking at the source : http://www.ludumdare.com/files/424_SwarmSrc.zip.

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