Ludum Dare

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Ludum Dare is a game programming contest where contestants attempt create a complete game (code, artwork, sound) in a period of 48 hours.

Ludum Dare means Ludum - to play and dare - is to give, in latin.

Ludumdare was run by Geoff Howland in LD1, 2, 3, but, Phil Hassey ran LD10, Richard T. Jones ran LD5 and 6 and Mike Hommel ran LD 4.

[edit] Timeline

Date	Title	Participants	Submissions	Winner
April 2002	LudumDare #0
July 2002	LD1 - Guardian
November 2002	LD2 - Construction/Destruction
April 2003	LD3 - Preparation
April 2004	LD4 - Infection	341	67
	LD5 - Random
April 2005	LD6 - Light & Darkness
December 2005	LD7 - Growth
April 2006	LD8 - Swarms	150	66
January 2007	LD8.5 - Moon, Anti-Text
April 2007	LD9 - Build the level you play
December 2007	LD10 - Chain Reaction	52		Hamumu

[edit] Mini Competition

There is a mini competition that runs once a month, with less stringent rules, created to keep the contestants busy in the off season between the main competitions. The rules were changed in an effort to provide a more relaxed feel to the competition. Some of the changes include: teams are allowed, existing art/sound/media/etc. are allowed, theme is not voted on, but chosen by the person running the competition. It first ran in June of 2008 ^[1]