LD14 Theme List

You can copy in the good ones from the LD13 theme list or add new themes! As a general rule, try to avoid themes that either require specific cultural knowledge (including sports), or impose implementation limitations (like “2-bit color”). Please use alphabetical ordering so it's easy to see if a certain theme is already added.

Themes go here:

  • Achievements
  • Advancing Wall of Doom
  • All Your Base
  • Animals
  • Any Fiction 100 years + old
  • And what now?

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  • April the Twentieth
  • Astrobiology
  • Attraction
  • Autobiography
  • Bicycle
  • Board Game
  • Body parts
  • Bosses
  • Breaking the rules
  • Cactus
  • Cards
  • Chain reaction
  • Circuits
  • Collecting
  • Cooperation
  • Conspiracy
  • Control
  • Corpse Stacking
  • Coffee
  • Cryogenics/Cryonics
  • Cyberspace
  • Dark Ages
  • Data Collection and Analysis
  • Death
  • Defense
  • Depression
  • Distorted perception
  • Don't think, do.
  • Drums and drumming.
  • Economics
  • Educational (If kid's can learn the names of all hundred-dozen-some-odd Pokemon, why can't they learn about something real?)
  • Epidemic
  • Ergonomics
  • Eroticism
  • Explosions
  • Extremes
  • Evil, defeat the lone hero!
  • Evolution
  • Fail to win
  • Ferrets
  • Flat
  • Flora and Fauna
  • Fluoride
  • Flying
  • Four Seasons.
  • Game of life ( as in "this", but with broader interpretation)
  • Game within a game
  • Genetic
  • Geometry
  • Giant Naked Men (Dr. Manhattan?) [Or, indeed, any other giant naked men that may come to mind]
  • Gladiators
  • Globe
  • God(s) (or religion)
  • Government Conspiracy
  • Gravity
  • Greedy
  • Gulliver's Travels
  • Help the helpless
  • HG Wells Story
  • High
  • Hold the Line
  • Invasive advertisements
  • Infinity
  • Irony
  • I accidentally the whole thing
  • Jules Verne Story
  • King
  • Kittens
  • Lasers and Mirrors
  • Laser Cats
  • Layers
  • Leprechauns
  • Linguistics/Translation/Interpretation
  • Lots of different endings
  • Love
  • Meat vs. Vegetables
  • Microscopic World
  • Mirror
  • Mons
  • Mountain Goats
  • Multiple types of health meters
  • Music
  • Nachos
  • Nintendo Hard
  • Non euclidean space ←– Noooooooo!!!! I hate hyperbolic geometry! :-P
  • Non Sequitur
  • Nude beach management
  • One Hit Point Wonder
  • One way out
  • Online high scores
  • Opposites
  • Over-complication
  • Over-simplification
  • Overlords
  • Paper
  • Perpetual motion
  • Player's actions coming back to bite him/her in the keister
  • Pollution
  • Procedural Generation
  • Psychedelic
  • Psychology
  • Psychonauts
  • Purposed Play (playing the game aides productivity)
  • Quanta
  • Quantum physics
  • Queues
  • Radiation
  • Rain
  • Randomness (never the same twice)
  • Reality TV
  • Recursion, specifically: "Yo dawg..."
  • Red Herring
  • Reflection
  • Relationships
  • Renaissance
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Revolt
  • Rewind
  • Robot
  • Rogue Nanobots
  • Role Reversal
  • Roman Empire
  • Roundabout methods
  • Sandbox
  • Scheme
  • Science Fiction
  • Sex
  • Short Complete Story
  • Sickeningly Cute
  • Single Enemy
  • Simplexity (complexity emerging from a simple design)
  • Sniping
  • Source of reality
  • Spicy
  • Spinning
  • Squids
  • Springs
  • Social interaction
  • Stab the Pope
  • Synesthesia
  • Taxes
  • Time traveling
  • To be played in a public place
  • Toaster
  • Toys
  • Track
  • Transport
  • Turn-based strategy
  • Turbo Hyper Ultra Mega Laser Ninjas 3000
  • Two versions of the same thing
  • Tycoon
  • Universal
  • User designed entities(Machines/Gadgets/Organisms)
  • Versus
  • Very Short Games
  • Water Pressure
  • Werewolves
  • What I did last weekend… the game!
  • Wikipedia (the site somehow plays into the game's design)
  • Winamp
  • Winter
  • Words
  • Wormholes
  • Xylophone
  • Xenophobia
  • Yetis
  • Your Mother
  • Zero Repetition
  • Zombies
  • Zapping
  • WORMS AND ZOMBIES ←- dude, that is *not* alphabetical order ^^

Previously Used Themes

(let's not use these again for a while)

Ludum Dare

  • LD13: Roads
  • LD12: The Tower
  • LD11: Minimalist
  • LD10.5: Weird/Unexpected/Surprise
  • LD10: Chain Reaction
  • LD9: Build the level you play
  • LD8.5: Moon, Anti-Text
  • LD8: Swarms
  • LD7: Growth
  • LD6: Light and Darkness
  • LD5: Random
  • LD4: Infection
  • LD3: Preparation
  • LD2: Construction/Destruction (Minor Theme: Sheep)
  • LD1: Guardian
  • LD0: Indirect Interaction

Mini Ludum Dare

  • Mini LD #8 (Hamumu - March 09): Mash-up
  • Mini LD #7 (Philhassey - February 09): Cryptozoology
  • Mini LD #6 (Matrin - January 09): Monochrome
  • Mini LD #5 (Hamumu - November 08): Cover
  • Mini LD #4 (Eugman - October 08): MSpaint: Best Level Editor Ever
  • Mini LD #3 (PoV - September 08): Tool
  • Mini LD #2 (GirlFlash - July 08): The game of the movie (Minor Theme: Unicorn)
  • Mini LD #1 (Hamumu - June 08): Versus (Two extremely famous or iconic characters)

PyWeek

  • PW7: The length of a piece of string
  • PW6: Robot
  • PW5: Twisted
  • PW4: The only way is up
  • PW3: The Disappearing Act
  • PW2: It runs on steam!
  • PW1: Power

Ruby Weekend (not that they're that big…)

  • RWE1: Pirates vs. Zombies
  • RWE2: Opposites

72 Hour GDC

  • 72HGDC #8 Nov '06: Magnets
  • 72HGDC #7 Jul '06: Retro
  • 72HGDC #6 Mar '06: Magic
  • 72HGDC #5 Jul '05: Horror
  • 72HGDC #4 Dec '04: Swappable Parts/Customize?
  • 72HGDC #3 Jun '04: Pirates
  • 72HGDC #2 Jan '04: Food
  • 72HGDC #1 Jul '03: Mindless violence

Flash Game Design Competition

  • FGDC4: Ball Physics
  • FGDC3: Replay
  • FGDC2: Grow
  • FGDC1: Point & Click
 
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