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Ludum dare 18 - August 20-22 Weekend

There will be another Ludum Dare game programming competition in the weekend of August 20th-22nd. You can suggest a theme here. There will apparently be some big changes over previous competitions as discussed here.

Have fun.

Chatroom temporarily out -> use #bilge2 instead

Invasion England has caused a horrible glitch in the matrix that causes everyone to lose their voice on #bilge. Don't worry though, us hackers have come up with a alternative solution to fight the evil system lords by creating a temporary channel: #bilge2.

Make being quiet all day your choice and join in.

New games in the galleries

The last few months a bunch of games have been uploaded, that have only recently been approved (apologies for the time it took to do so). Have a look at them and don't forget to comment!

Geca Blaster 2 by Geca Soft
Art Shot by Geca Soft
Skull by Geca Soft
Puzznic by Nimusi
Colombian Lands V2.0 by Colombian Developers

Also don't forget to jump into our chatroom, there are a lot of people around lately.

Bennu Game Development - bennugd.co.uk

There is now a english forum for Bennu.

You will find here the latest news and builds for Bennu, coding help, a sumbissions showcase, tools and much more.

It's a lot better looking than the bennugd.org one and it's actually not spanish!! But seriously, it opens up Bennu support to a lot more people, and hopefully will inspire more people to use the great games-dev language Bennu.

Have fun!

http://bennugd.co.uk

Domain Name Problems

As you may have noticed, the domain name had a brief(ish) period of being-expired-ness but its back under control now and the site is once again back on the interpipes.

What happened? Basically the site's previous host still had full control over the domain and let it expire without telling us. After a long wait they finally responded to our emails to let us know that they couldn't renew the domain because the credit card they had on file had expired. By the time we'd updated the payment details, the domain had entered the next stage in its long journey back into public availability - a stage which both the host and the registrar seemed to be confused about. The host told us to ask the registrar to renew the domain. The registrar told us to ask the host. Anyway, we've now managed to get the domain registered with a decent registrar so there'll be no more of this nonsense.

For future reference, the site can also be reached via http://www.booleansoup.org or failing that, http://bs.ruilhandel.net

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And a happy...2009?

Ludum Dare 13

The next instalment of the tri-annual 48 hour solo game development competition, Ludum Dare 13, will be upon us in a matter of weeks. 5th-7th December are the dates, so if you fancy a sleep-deprived adrenaline-fuelled 48 hours of extreme code hacking, be sure to check out the site and suggest a theme. See you there!

Games roundup

Despite the single-quote-in-a-description-field-is-a-fail bug, a bunch of games have been uploaded the past two months:

Full games
- Rebel by Nimusi
- Atomix by Nimusi
- Smallball in Changeland by Neotron Games
- Altitude by Neotron Games
- BeatBox by Neotron Games
- Tower Rescue by Frimkron
- Java Beans by ArikWex

WIP games
- BirdHunt by Neotron Games
- Guru Logic Champs by Rockford (Ian Price)


And the worklogs page has been very active, it's where all the game development action is happening!