Mark your calendars, the next National STEM Video Game Challenge is starting in November of 2011! If you don’t remember it from last year, it’s one of the biggest contests for youth game designers there is. Here’s a description from the site: Inspired by the Educate to Innovate Campaign, President Obama’s initiative to promote a [...]

Stop sitting around inside and Come Out & Play! This is a great opportunity to join an annual festival that promotes innovation, activity, and having fun. Read more about it here.

We’re both 9th graders who first discovered game design through the 2010 Scholastic Art and Writing Contest in the video game category, in which we both won National Awards. From there, our passion of game design grew. Full details to follow!

The Ludic Masters of Ludo Dojo are good friends with the Masters of Gigantic Mechanic, a small indie game development studio based in Brooklyn, NY.  Greg Trefry and Mattia Romeo, the Gigantic Mechanics themselves, worked on many games at Gamelab, including Gamestar Mechanic, and were some of the cofounders of the Come Out and Play [...]

Hot on the heels of the Game Prototype Challenge v5 is the 20th installment of the older and way more intense Ludum Dare, starting on April 29th! Ludum Dare is a 2-day solo game design competition. Each Ludum Dare competition (“compo”) is based on a theme — themes are suggested by the LD community, and [...]