The final results are in for Ludum Dare 26, a game competition in which participants have 48 hours to program a game from scratch. As I previously wrote, I participated in Ludum Dare for the first time last month and learned an immense amount in an extremely short amount of time. Here are the ratings I received for Painter’s Cat. The ratings were out of 5, and there were 1610 games submitted to the Compo category (which I participated in).

Ratings

	Coolness	60%
#47	Audio	3.85
#176	Innovation	3.64
#187	Humor	2.96
#219	Mood	3.33
#265	Theme	3.87
#457	Overall	3.26
#569	Graphics	3.00
#700	Fun	2.82

(For those who are wondering, Coolness is a measure of how involved you are in the community, especially with playing, rating, and leaving comments on other people’s games. The more you play and comment and rate other games, the higher your coolness is).

First of all… I’m in the Top 100 for Audio at #47? Holy crap. That’s amazing. I’m pretty blown away by this – all of that time doing One Hour Compos has really paid off! I couldn’t find where my overall ranking was, but it looks like I managed to place in the top 40%, which isn’t bad for a first game.

Ludum Dare was an amazing positive experience for me overall. I’m pretty excited for next time. There’s still a lot for me to learn and this is one way to help me not only learn about software development and game development, but to also have fun doing it.