Upcoming 48 hour game development events
Ludum Dare 17 is going to be next weekend (23-25 April). I’ll be participating in this one. (I missed LD 16 due to work, so this time I requested vacation time 
) Theme voting should open next week.
If you’re in Canada, To-Jam 5 is running the same weekend.
And to get you fired up about whichever event you’re going to participate in or watch, here’s Sid Meier at a 48-hr competition held at U. Michigan (some neat anecdotes about the early game industry as well):
(via the Escapist, originally from Dell (I think))
As an aside, what’s the right word to describe these events? LD is structured as a competition and has judging, but ‘winning’ or ‘beating the competition’ isn’t really the point. From what I gather, the various global game jams are the same way.
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By Drew, April 16, 2010 @ 9:48 pm
good luck,
any prizes for the winner?
By Tony, April 17, 2010 @ 1:00 am
Thanks! No prizes for LD… it’s just for fun and practice.
By Ann, April 17, 2010 @ 4:28 pm
Looks like fun, good luck in the competition