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PyWeek 6 will run from 00:00 UTC on March 30th through to 00:00 UTC on April 6th. Registration will open on Feb 29. If you're new (or even coming back again) please have a look at the rules and help pages at http://www.pyweek.org/ The ... [More] PyWeek challenge: Invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an individual or in a team, Is intended to be challenging and fun, Will hopefully increase the public body of game tools, code and expertise, Will let a lot of people actually finish a game, and May inspire new projects (with ready made teams!) Entries must be developed in Python during the challenge, and must incorporate some theme decided at the start of the challenge. [Less]

Ludum Dare 10 is coming! Ludum Dare is a regular community driven game development competition. The goal is, given a theme and 48 hours, to develop a game from scratch. Ludum Dare aims to encourage game design experimentation, and provide a ... [More] platform to develop and practice rapid game prototyping. Website: http://www.imitationpickles.org/ludum/ Rules & Stuff: http://www.imitationpickles.org/ludum/wiki/start IRC: #ludumdare on irc.afternet.org Dec. 7-14th - Registration and Theme Voting Dec. 14 at 7pm PST and runs until the 16th at 7pm PST We're also building an archive of entries from previous compos. Goto the compo site and add your old entries! They will be added to the screenshot grids: Overall: http://www.imitationpickles.org/ludum/?mythumb_nav=1 Per Author: http://www.imitationpickles.org/ludum/author/hamumu/ Per Compo: http://www.imitationpickles.org/ludum/category/ld8/ Per Tag: http://www.imitationpickles.org/ludum/tag/farm/ Lastly, if you have participated in previous LD's and have a game-dev related blog, I'd be thrilled to aggregate it onto the site. Create an account and then contact me with your blog info and I will add it ASAP. Hope to see you there! -Phil [Less]

A first cleanup has been done within the projects. Spam and empty entries, which laid around for more than 5 months were deleted, so some of you might miss their project (sorry for the inconvenience in those cases). Please fill the project ... [More] description with some information and a link to where it can be received from to avoid a deletion on the next clearing day :-). The cleanups will be done more or less regularly from now on. -- Marcus [Less]

If you have any projects on this site be sure to update them to add appropriate tags to integrate them into the tagging system :)

Numenta has just started a series of Challenges that incorporate their AI-like technology, called Hierarchical Temporal Memory. This first Challenge, GAME, involves a developer creating a fun, playable game out of their Python-based example called ... [More] Pictures. The first prize is an Xbox 360 with over 10 games, valued at over $900. Submission deadline is January 15th, and Electronic Arts will be the official judge. Details can be found at http://challenge.numenta.com [Less]

PyWeek 5 registration is open soon! People who have joined previous pyweeks can set up entries and join teams already. Registration for new comers opens 3rd of August (2007/08/03) The dates of this challenge are are 00:00 UTC 2007-09-02 to 00:00 UTC 2007-09-09.

We're recovering from a server move. Expect the rest of the website to roll together shortly. Update: All ok now. If you see any issues please let us know. Thanks!

For the past weeks we have been doing a pygame mini sprint. The idea is we meet regularly on a weekly basis to work on pygame stuff in irc. We get energy from each other, and can help each other out with problems. It's usually for 3 to 4 hours at ... [More] a time - but people have been doing more or less. Whatever they feel like. The day and time we start on this is: AU: Wednesday 6am AEST Germany: Tuesday 10pm UK: Tuesday 9pm US: Tuesday 4pm Here's what we have been doing in the previous sprints: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 6 Here's the page with our todo list, and information about development. Please join in if you want to have fun hacking on pygame. Beginners and old hands welcome! [Less]

PyWeek #4 (a cold cup 'o tea) is has been scheduled the first week of April: Start: 00:00UTC Sunday 1st April Finish: 00:00UTC Sunday 8th April Registration will open at the start of March. Visit the PyWeek website for more information: pyweek.org

Following a period of beta, and RC releases Pygame 1.8 will be released at 1806/12/22 10:00:36.873456 AEST! edit: we needed an extra few centuries.