After a long #RoadToLudumDare, everything is finally ready. Temporary office is set up, all the server infrastructure is working and we're good to go for theme reveal of #ludumdare56 in an hour!
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And now the most annoying part of #RoadToLudumDare: getting my PC display 🖥️ off the monitor arm and into a transportable state.
Life would've been so much easier if I could work with only the laptop screen, but I got too used to at least 2 monitors...
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With only a bit more than 3 days to go till #ldjam56, it's about time my team started figuring out how we're gonna get the 4 of us, all the tech and other equipment as well as food for 3 days to the 5th member's place with only one car. It just so happens he lives on the other side of the (admittedly rather small) country...
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Today was a successful day in the #RoadToLudumDare software land.
I finally managed to get the #SSL certificates for our selfhosted #git and wiki #servers renewed. It took a lot longer than it should have, as I have forgotten the password for my root certificate and was already 5 digits into the third brute force cracking attempt when I realized I have the password written down somewhere 🤪
Sometimes reading the docs isn't a bad idea!
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Behold, yesterday's impromptu tech upgrade shop in the middle of the living room was successful!
My laptop is now ready to go for #ludumdare #gamejam with the RAM upgraded to 16GB! The game jamming bluetooth headphones also got new earpads as the old ones were falling apart, so on the hardware side I'm ready to go.
Next up: fixing up the software situation. Both on our git server as well as Rider licenses.
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Today on #RoadToLudumDare:
Another potential team member can't come with us to the next #ludumdare #gamejam as he's busy. With only 3 of us confirmed so far, it might be the smallest team we had in quite a while.
On the hardware side, RAM modules for my laptop have been ordered and the dev that was looking for a new laptop also found one 🥳 Hopefully I didn't mess up RAM compatibility, I always find it confusing.
Slowly we'll be able to move onto software issues.
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Today on #RoadToLudumDare: we realized we need hardware upgrades
Two of the three of us who confirmed attending #ludumdare from my team so far, need some form of hardware upgrades. Our programmer is looking for a new #laptop in order not to carry the whole PC setup around, while my laptop needs a RAM upgrade, as in the past couple of #gamejam events I had to keep restarting #unity3d or #godotengine to prevent the whole OS freezing. 8GB RAM just isn't enough in 2024.
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For #ludumdare 56, I'm stuck in the "Who is even coming?" phase of organization today. It seems like that 3 weeks in advance is a bit too far in the future for my team members, so it's hard getting definitive answers of who's interested in participating this time around...
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Once the initial "oh shit, next #ludumdare is so soon" panic wears off, the big 3 questions that always pop up for my team are:
- Who? - Some of the usual members might be unavailable.
- Where? - We're not a proper studio, so we need to find a temporary office for the weekend.
- Which engine? - The #unity3d vs #godotengine debate never stops.What are your "gotta get this sorted first" questions when it comes to #gamejam preparation?
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So, how and when does my team's #RoadToLudumDare begin?
Since the @ludumdare account only starts posting as the event is very close, we usually get the news of an approaching #ludumdare from the one of us who randomly decided to check when the next #ldjam will be and realized it's less than a month away.
This usually starts a flurry of activity in our #gamejam Discord channel. For current LD, it happened 2 days ago, so the weekend will be interesting.
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Heyo #gamedev!
With the next #ludumdare less than a month away, I intend to do some behind the scenes coverage on how my usual game jam team (usually 5-10 people) organizes all the logistics and preparations so we can do an in person jam with everything ready for when the countdown hits 0.
If you're interested, follow me. If you've got any interesting preparations of your own, share them with #RoadToLudumDare, I'd love to see how different people tackle game jam logistics.
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Gotta love trying to find compatible RAM sticks for your #laptop, while the said laptop is half of Europe away and you have no model numbers at hand at all.
I probably should wait until I have it on hand, but I just happen to have way too much time at the moment 😄