Mike Kasprzak, longtime caretaker of the Ludum Dare game jam, has announced that LD 64 in October 2028 will be the final scheduled event, capping 26 years of one of indie gaming’s most formative institutions. Kasprzak is planning an unofficial April 2029 encore before the lights properly go out, and has openly challenged the community to build a better successor rather than inherit the name. LD 59 is live for theme suggestions in the meantime. Few jams have shaped indie development like Ludum Dare has - 26 years of weekend experiments that seeded careers, studios, and whole corners of the scene. Enormous legacy, and enormous props to Kasprzak for keeping the lights on this long.