I was just busy having a look at the upcoming PyWeek earlier this evening when I remembered about the Experimental Gameplay Project so I quickly checked out their latest theme, which is 101 Things (running until end of May). I'm never quite sure with EGP, whether my 1 week begins when I start coding or as soon as I see the theme and start thinking of ideas for a game? 

SO LITTLE TIME!

When I rebuilt my site using Drupal in June of last year, I told myself I'm going to start posting something on my site at least once a week. Scanning back over my very short blog history I've obviously failed on that count.

A friend e-mailed me last night, asking me to go vote for his QR code and Space Invaders inspired T-shirt design on Threadless. The design is inspired, but I was very disappointed when the QR code failed to scan...

My attempt at a Ludum Dare 21 entry is as complete as it's going to get tonight and unfortunately it's nowhere close to being a game yet, so I'm calling it quits...

I could work for another 3 hours and then struggle frantically to submit my game in the last 30 minutes as the server gets overwhelmed by submitters, but there's just too much that still needs to be done before my game would be good enough for me to consider wasting other competitors' valuable time with rating it.

Ludum Dare 21 is kicking off in just slightly over 13 hours and I'm going to participate!

For those of you that don't know what Ludum Dare is, it's a 48 hour long competition in which a bunch of crazy game developers each try to develop a game based on a specific theme in 48 hours or less. The theme is voted on by the community. Once the 48 hours are over we all spend 3 weeks playing each others games and rating them, after which the winner is announced.

The prize? Your prize is having just made a kick-ass game that lots of people enjoyed!

Against my better judgement, I've decided to try to enter a game for the Mini Ludum Dare 28... The theme is War - just too awesome to pass up on!

I've been thinking... no... obsessing about board game design for the last week! You see we had some friends over to play board games last weekend. The strange thing... the thing that got me thinking... is that we spent more time playing old card games like Canasta and Klawerjas, than we did playing expensive modern board games such as Race for the Galaxy, Ticket to Ride or Game of Thrones (to mention only a few of the available options).

Perhaps I'm reading too much into this - perhaps I'm just overly tired, but I have a feeling that I've noticed something important! A feeling that figuring out why this strange thing happened will give me some important insight into board game design...

This website is now ready for public consumption!

Disclaimer: May still be a bit rough around the edges and may not be equally great in ALL browsers.

Please excuse this bare, ugly, unstyled site - it's still a work in progress!

This post is a test to make sure all the modules I've installed into Drupal on my new site are working properly. Why Drupal instead of SilverStripe? We are using it for our new website and intranet at work, so this project is partially about familiarising myself with Drupal...