Comments on: Ludum Dare 17 Theme Voting has Begun!

By: ickylevel

ickylevel — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:54:00 +0000

Ok ok VOTE FLOOD or PERPETUOUS MOVEMENT !

I have ridiculously stupid ideas for theses ones.

By: zez

zez — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:38:36 +0000

Oh man, I have the best idea for a pretentious art game for the theme isolation! Itl be awesome, its already playing out in my head. Ofcourse, if the theme winds up being pretentious art games, I have an even better Idea for a streets of rage/fatal furry/ punch everyone in the face till they die for no good reason game.

By: zez

zez — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:42:25 +0000

Word, I would have been all over enemies as weapons…

By: PsySal

PsySal — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:47:22 +0000

I think that next time we should weight theme voting by how well each voter placed in the last compo.

Hahaha no… NOT SERIOUS GUYS!

However one thing to note, there seems to always be two types of themes, and I wonder if we made it bi-themed would work. One theme type is like, “thematic” and would be e.g., twilight fandom, pirates, outer space. The other type of theme is like, “mechanic” and would be e.g., gravitation, evolution, falling, outnumbered, gears, etc.

Now some could be taken either way. Like evolution (which I voted down! baaah) could be something along the lines of the story of the dinosaurs as a SF2 fighting game (hey, nobody ever makes fighting games for LD…) or it could be a game with evolution as a mechanic.

But for me, I always just vote down the mechanic ones and vote up the thematic ones, because I’m like that.

Tchus!

By: Codexus

Codexus — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:44:04 +0000

“You’re the only survivor of the zombie apocalypse, kill 6.5 billion zombies to win this game!”

all right, boring, -1

By: ickylevel

ickylevel — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:07:30 +0000

Outnumbered lol ? Tell me a game where the player isn’t outnumbered.

By: sf17k

sf17k — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:08:29 +0000

Argue about what themes should’ve made it here:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2010/04/21/the-right-theme/

By: jovoc

jovoc — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:39:39 +0000

Personally, I didn’t like it specifically because of the reference — LD should be about making innovative games that stand on their own, not trying to force every entrant to comment on current events… Of course, that shouldn’t stop anyone that wants to from making a ‘Edge’ game with whatever the theme is — I want to see FISHING EDGE and GET PEPERS EDGE… It would be great…

Go TOWLR EDGE….

By: laremere

laremere — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:57:34 +0000

I wanted that one to win too, though I may be a bias as I was the one who suggested it. Then again, there’s always a chance of a theme pulling a twilight fandom again

By: Xopods

Xopods — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:29:16 +0000

I’m pulling for Islands or Flood… basically I think that a good theme is one that doesn’t dictate what genre or style of gameplay anyone’s forced to use. It should be, well, thematic.

Pity Edge got so downvoted… I guess most people didn’t get the reference, but it would have been great if that was chosen.

By: GanonsSpirit

GanonsSpirit — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:02:37 +0000

Indeed. Baked goods as weapons got cut, but we have underwater and water, and we have, what, like 3 different synonyms for the end of the world?

By: Jpfed

Jpfed — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:02:26 +0000

I REALLY wanted that one to win.

By: smn

smn — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:22:34 +0000

Oh my, Enemies as weapons woulda SO had my vote

By: Jonny D

Jonny D — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:15:40 +0000

Word. My themes (History Rewritten, Enemies as weapons, Role Reversal, and The ____est Hero Ever) didn’t make it either, apparently. Very strange.

By: Jonny D

Jonny D — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:11:59 +0000

Does that theme require Ruby?

By: mjau

mjau — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:45:41 +0000

Yeah, agreed. Lowest common denominator is one thing, but now we’re removing the interesting ones before voting even starts. Way to go, LD! It’s like we *want* the selected theme as generic and uninteresting as humanly possible.

By: Wiering

Wiering — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:40:51 +0000

I agree, most themes are too general. Too bad the “second and third theme combined” didn’t get through, that could have been interesting.

By: Morre

Morre — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:11:42 +0000

I sort of agree with ickylevel. Why didn’t “That was easy – a little too easy…” make the cut to voting, for example?

There’s enough redundance in this list that a few themes could be cut to make room for more unusual / more restrictive themes. For example, falling and downfall have enough common interpretations that one of them could be cut. It might even make more people vote for the other one.

By: ickylevel

ickylevel — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:23:04 +0000

Theses themes are not restrictives enougth…

By: SonnyBone

SonnyBone — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:20:23 +0000

Yeah there are a few in here that I dig, but not many. I hope we end up with something radical.