I am the author of this article (and game).

It's been a while since I participated in a game jam, but I highly recommend doing it at least once or twice.

What technologies do you recommend for getting a game going as quickly as possible?

There’s so much to do, art, sounds, music.

It depends, to be honest.

For me, Love2d, Pyxel Edit and Bosca Ceol have worked well.

There are things like music generators to help if you're super slow at music composition like me.

Also, having a small scope helps.

I have zero experience in music composition and would be super slow and terrible, what are some good music generators?

I love Ludum Dare (I've done about 12 of them - they are great fun) - ANNNND, I love reading people's post-mortems... but I gotta ask - how did this post mortem from from LD38 in 2017 make it to the front page? Seems like some black magic!

Anyhoo, the write up is great - and weird timing - I just went to see when the next Ludum Dare was this morning, and was surprised to see it's in 117 days... they've reduced it to twice a year now.

It's a mystery to me as well. I didn't post it. I still don't know how it got surfaced. I've not been actively promoting that blog.

I had the same thing happen to me recently. A blog I use to anonymously rant against ridiculous things in my industry went from 2, maybe 3 visits per day to over 200,000 when someone randomly posted an article to HN and Reddit. I didn’t notice until 24 hours later. No idea how that person found me or why they decided to post that.

(2017)