As of today, registration for Pyweek is now open! Tell your friends and family! I am, of course, planning on entering again. In case you missed it on their website, the competition runs from April 1st to the 8th. Yay!

For those of you eagerly awaiting the release of my moon buggy game, called buggyGame, It seems to have developed a slight case of feature-creep. I’m hoping to have it ready for general consumption soon.

Also, I’d like to mention that I am completely enjoying the new Sam and Max episodes from Telltale Games. I think they’ve done a wonderful job of bringing the old classic back to life again and anyone who was a fan of the classic Lucasarts Sam and Max game should try at least one episode.
… and no, they didn’t pay me to say that.

As you can tell by some of my recent entries, I’ve been busy with 30-minute drawing competitions. They’re a lot of fun.

And as for bigger news, I’ve entered the Ludum Dare game development competition warm-up (Ludum Dare 8.5) where entrants are required to create a full fledged game within 24 hours over this past weekend. The competition is very similar to Pyweek, with the exception (of course) that you don’t get a whole week.
The themes to choose from were ‘anti-textmode’ and ‘the moon’, so I created a moon buggy game where you must travel across the treacherous moon landscape in safety. It was the first time working by myself in a game development competition, so I’ve learned quite a bit about the process, and I’m very happy with the resulting game that came out of it.

I’ve still got some bugs to work out and some polish to add to my entry, after which I’ll be releasing it to the general public here.

Another Ludum Dare entrant created a web application, called Imageboard.net. I just wanted to mention it here, as it is absolutely hilarious and fun to use. Basically it’s an anonymous messageboard that deals not with text, but with small pixelated images. There’s even an option to play back an animation from the contents of a forum thread!

NOTE: I should warn that since the board is anonymous, some not-so-mature people post offensive things. So, please be careful when visiting.

Here’s an example of a thread I started that someone else responded to:

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Have a great day, interweb people.

Another drawing from a ludumdare 30-minute drawing competition. This time the theme was ‘technology’. Enjoy.

I was hanging out in the #ludumdare IRC channel and phil hassey suggested that we have a quick 30-minute drawing competition. The theme was ‘under water’. This is my entry, it was a lot of fun to make!