Ludum Dare

Ludum Dare 31 Live-Blog!

Live-blogging my Ludum Dare 31 experience. Most recent entries are on top. I’ll plan to post about once an hour (while working). You’ll have to manually refresh the page to get updates. Follow and comment on twitter @velipso. All timestamps in EST.

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Odyssey (LD30) Postmortem

Results are out for Ludum Dare 30, and my game Odyssey did pretty damn good!

Rank (of 1493) Category Rating
#13 Fun 4.11
#24 Theme 4.16
#34 Overall 4.00
#60 Innovation 4.00
#200 Mood 3.45
#269 Audio 3.22
#337 Humor 2.71
#484 Graphics 3.19

The #13 ranking in Fun just blows me away! My aggregate rating is 93.6% (+0.1% from last time).

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Ludum Dare 30 Live-Blog!

Live-blogging my Ludum Dare 30 experience. Most recent entries are on top. I’ll plan to post about once an hour (while working). You’ll have to manually refresh the page to get updates. Follow and comment on twitter @velipso. All timestamps in EST.

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Everyone’s Ludum Dare 29 Results

I became slightly annoyed at the analysis and accessibility of the Ludum Dare 29 results. So I decided to write a program that would scrape all the pages and extract the necessary data.

You can now download the LD29 results in a convenient CSV or JSON format, here:

Or, for even more fun, I made a page that analyzes results:

Have fun!

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Inner Demons (LD29) Postmortem

Voting has officially ended for Ludum Dare 29. My entry was ranked as follows:

Rank (of 1493) Category Rating Percent Improvement
#63 Mood 3.88 95.8% +31.9%
#70 Humor 3.64 95.3% +22.0%
#101 Innovation 3.88 93.2% +26.5%
#116 Overall 3.76 92.2% +23.3%
#148 Fun 3.60 90.1% +10.9%
#149 Audio 3.50 90.0% N/A
#227 Theme 3.64 84.8% +52.3%
#551 Graphics 3.17 63.1% -8.0%

Average score: 88.1% (+23.0% improvement from previous entry)

If you’re curious, you can play my game, Inner Demons! Let’s dive into the postmortem…

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Ludum Dare 29 Live-Blog!

Live-blogging my Ludum Dare 29 experience. Most recent entries are on top. I’ll plan to post about once an hour (while working). You’ll have to manually refresh the page to get updates. Follow and comment on twitter @velipso. All timestamps in EST.

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Diner Devil! (LD28) Postmortem

Voting has officially ended for Ludum Dare 28. My entry was ranked as follows:

Rank (of 1284) Category Rating Percent
#267 Fun 3.22 79.2%
#343 Humor 2.61 73.3%
#371 Graphics 3.17 71.1%
#399 Overall 3.13 68.9%
#427 Innovation 3.00 66.7%
#464 Mood 2.81 63.9%
#867 Theme 2.14 32.5%

Average score: 65.1%

If you’re curious, you can play my game, Diner Devil! Let’s dive into the postmortem…

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Ludum Dare 28 Live-Blog!

Live-blogging my Ludum Dare 28 experience. Most recent entries are on top. I’ll plan to post about once an hour (while working). You’ll have to manually refresh the page to get updates. Follow and comment on twitter @velipso. All timestamps in EST.

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