Ludum Dare is a competition which started tonight 03:00 GMT+1, where people are supposed to compete in who can program the best type of game within 48 hours within the type of theme. Competitors such as Notch use to compete, although last year he only came on rank 999(something like that).
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This years theme: little world


Giving my friend some cred as well, very experienced programming within lua, java and c/c++, and this is his live stream as he builds the game from scratch: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] so if you're interested you should definately check him out!