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Indie uproar as dev contest offers cash prizes

The indie dev community was torn this week following the news that Kongregate — a subsidiary of game retail giant GameStop — would be attaching monetary prizes to this weekend’s Ludum Dare competition. Ludum Dare is a 48 hour game jam run three times a year, which invites any and all developers to build games based around a particular theme. There are no “real” prizes for winning Ludum Dare, and yet over 1,400 people took …