!ludumdare@programming.dev

A community for the ludum dare game jam! Feel free to show off your games, discuss, or ask questions about it

Community for it as the event starts in a bit more than 24 hours

Its being run similar to how its been in the last couple events. You can participate in any one of these three formats:

• The Compo – 48 hour deadline, solo, from scratch (as much as is reasonable), and share your source code. Scored if you give enough feedback.
• The Jam (recommended for your first time) – 72 hour deadline, solo or team, mostly from scratch, opting out of the Graphics or Audio categories if yours isn’t original. Scored if you give enough feedback.
• Extra – 3 week deadline, solo or team, mostly from scratch, opting out of the Graphics or Audio categories if yours isn’t original. Take as few or as many days as you need. No score at the end, but you will get feedback if you submit early and give feedback.

Event Details

Pushed an update to https://pangora.social to improve various aspects of the instance selector.

Instance Preview

Instead of directly sending someone to an instance it will instead show a preview of the instance so they can see info on it. Info includes:

• A description of the instance
• Name & Icon
• The site administrators (hovering over an avatar gives a popup with info on them)
• The instance uptime
• Where the instance is hosted
• The software and version used for the instance

Theres also a get another site button that pops up if theres more than 1 site for a certain category. When clicked it just gives another one in the category.

Category Shuffling

I changed around the locations of some of the categories and added some new ones. Certain categories will point to general instances until a specific instance is made for that category (but it exists with the general instances for now so I can automate adding stuff to it in the future)

Regions was added as a main category instead of being in other, and crypto and finance was moved into technology.

Pages

If theres too many subcategories for a category it now gets split up into different pages. Currently only happens in the regions category and replaces the old behaviour of using an other category to then send people to another section with more

Wanted to do another update before I start focusing a ton on ludum dare. There may be another update that gets pushed recentish to make instance owners be able to add themselves to categories but unknown when that will go out.

If you host an instance and you want it to be listed (and it isnt already) just let me know and ill add it.

Hey Everyone! Back with another update on pangora. This week has had a little less progress in terms of pangora-ui and more setting up various other aspects.

Pangora now has a main site at https://pangora.social. This will be used as the equivalent to join-lemmy.org and theres going to be a subdomain for testing out pangora-ui once it gets a bit more stable.

On the site currently theres some info about pangora and an instance selector for people to go through to find an instance they want to join. I made it so it sends people more often to what theyre interested in rather than a general purpose instance to help grow the niche instances more

Theres some misc pangora-ui changes but as theyre not big ill hold off on showing them off until the larger feature theyre part of is done

In addition I updated my remindme bot and moved it over to the pangora organization in github. In the future ill be moving the rest of my bots over as well.

Development will likely severely slow down for a bit while I focus on ludum dare and some events after ludum dare but I should be back with another update in a few weeks.

https://pangora.social/join

Hey everyone! I recently finished up an instance selector similar to join-lemmy. There are a couple issues with join-lemmy with it sending the majority of people to the general purpose instances instead of growing the niche instances, as well as giving people way too many options at once which can turn into choice paralysis.

The selector will be the default when people visit the pangora site and people can also use it to select lemmy instances instead of using join-lemmy since im keeping pangora and lemmy as close to each other as possible.

How it works:

• Users are presented with 10 main categories (technology, sports, art, etc.). They can choose one which will be the category of content they primarily look at
• ~~If a category has no subcategories they will then be sent to a random instance for that category (e.g. if they choose sports they get sent to fanaticus)~~ Update: If a category has no subcategories they are shown a preview of a random instance for that category (e.g. if they choose sports they get a preview of fanaticus to look at and then possibly click visit)
• Else if a category has subcategories they are then shown those to pick from (e.g. technology when selected will show programming, radio, etc.) (and when selected repeat previous step)

I added almost every active instance to the site so feel free to use it to check out some other instances for various topics

Hope you enjoy :)

site: https://pangora.social/join
source code: https://github.com/PangoraWeb/pangora.social

Hey everyone! The community of the week this week is the science community in the mander.xyz instance!

Similar to how this instance is the instance for programming related topics, mander is the instance for science related topics. It has things like science memes, mychology, archaelogy, etc.

Feel free to check them out if youre interested! Ill likely be showing off some other topic specific instances in the future as well to give them more attention for people to use

!science@mander.xyz

Hey everyone! Figured I would do a post about this bot here to get the word out that it exists. I recently brought back online and updated my remindme bot to 1.4 to make it comply with the lemmy.world bot guidelines.

This bot works across the fediverse but is primarily aimed at Pangora, Lemmy, and Kbin communities.

It functions on an allowlist in terms of what communities it participates in so if you want your community to be able to use it put a request by creating an issue in in the repository and itll get added

This bot aims to give people an easy way to remind themselves about an event on the fediverse. For example if theres something releasing in a couple months people can set a reminder using @RemindMe@programming.dev 2 months and they will get a reply to that message 2 months from then reminding them about it so they can check it out. (reminders are handled by replies so that it functions in kbin communities, and so that users from platforms such as mastodon can also use it in the communities)

Bot is fully open source so feel free to make pull requests with new features if you want or customize it to adapt it for your community if you want to self host.

Hope you enjoy it :) (note bot does not work here since this community isnt in the allowlist currently but theres a crossposted post in programming.dev that it works in if you want to test it out)

Repository: https://github.com/PangoraWeb/remindme-bot
Matrix Space for Pangora: https://matrix.to/#/#pangora:matrix.org

Hey everyone! I recently finished up the remindme bot 1.4 update to make it comply with the lemmy.world bot guidelines

The bot now functions using an allowlist so if you want it to work in your community make sure to open up a federation request issue on the repository

This bot aims to give people an easy way to remind themselves about an event on the fediverse. For example if theres something releasing in a couple months people can set a reminder using @RemindMe@programming.dev 2 months and they will get a reply to that message 2 months from then reminding them about it so they can check it out. (reminders are handled by replies so that it functions in kbin communities, and so that users from platforms such as mastodon can also use it in the communities)

Bot is fully open source so feel free to make pull requests with new features if you want or customize it to adapt it for your community if you want to self host.

Hope you enjoy it :) More bots on the way as I go through and update them all

(p.s. the bot works in all programming.dev communities so you can test it out here)

Repository: https://github.com/PangoraWeb/remindme-bot
Matrix Space for Pangora: https://matrix.to/#/#pangora:matrix.org

Hey everyone, slight update on the game development communities in the instance

I did a poll before where it seemed like the majority of people (60%) wanted to keep all content in this community but there was around 40% of people that wanted content separated out

This community is being handled the same way c/programming is where its a collector community for all gamedev content. This is the same as its been but in addition to this theres now child communities for the different kinds of content (for people who want to subscribe or browse to one specific thing)

There was some older communities added onto the community chain and some new ones that got made

Parent

• !programming@programming.dev - All programming related content

This

• !gamedev@programming.dev - All gamedev related content

Children

• !gamedev_showcase@programming.dev - Community for showing off games
• !game_design@programming.dev - Community about game design
• !gamedev_discussion@programming.dev - Community for discussion about gamedev
• !gamedev_news@programming.dev - Community for news relating to gamedev

Feel free to crosspost to different levels of the chain (although try not to spam the higher levels of the chain with similar articles, etc.). Lemmy handles crossposts pretty well in the UI where you can toggle between the different locations it was posted in, and it only appears once in the feed in the default UI (certain alternate UIs may not have that feature implemented yet but its possible to add it in to them if you want to give the devs a feature request)

Also feel free to crosspost into the engine specific communities if it relates to them

Welcome to screenshot saturday! This is a thread in the community where you can showcase any sort of progress on games youre developing. Feel free to comment below with things such as videos, gifs, images, or text talking about your games

This post is created on both the gamedev community and gamedev showcase community. Feel free to check out the crosspost section to view both of them

Welcome to screenshot saturday! This is a thread in the community where you can showcase any sort of progress on games youre developing. Feel free to comment below with things such as videos, gifs, images, or text talking about your games

This post is created on both the gamedev community and gamedev showcase community. Feel free to check out the crosspost section to view both of them

Show-Off

The community of the week is show-off! This is a community for showcasing cool things you or other people made that you want to showcase to other people.

Feel free to join it and show off some cool things you made or are using with a link and explanation about them

Link to community: !showoff@programming.dev