{"author_link":"\/users\/dmecke","author_name":"dmecke","author_uid":"dmecke","comments":[],"epoch":1533898198,"event":"LD42","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":106077,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"116454","p_author":"dmecke","p_authorkey":"1009537","p_urlkey":"332454","p_title":"to theme or not to theme","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD42","p_time":"1533898198","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1009537","us_name":"dmecke","us_username":"dmecke","event_start":"1533859200","event_key":"73","event_name":"LD 42"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD42","removed_author":false},"_superparent":97793,"_trust":1,"author":9537,"body":"I don't want to discuss whether the final round themes are good or bad (though I have an opinion about that \ud83d\ude09), but would like to hear what you think about completely neglect the theme. If I have a good game idea that I would like to work on in the context of compo, but I cannot fit it into the theme, should I go for it anyway? If I remember right, one can exclude voting categories when submitting your game, so this could be an option then. Is it allowed to neglect the theme completely after all?","comments":7,"comments-timestamp":"2018-08-10T13:55:15Z","created":"2018-08-10T10:44:56Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":106077,"love":2,"love-timestamp":"2018-08-10T11:10:30Z","meta":[],"modified":"2018-08-10T13:55:15Z","name":"to theme or not to theme","node-timestamp":"2018-08-10T10:49:58Z","parent":106075,"parents":[1,5,9,97793,106075],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/$106075\/to-theme-or-not-to-theme","published":"2018-08-10T10:49:58Z","scope":"public","slug":"to-theme-or-not-to-theme","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":301113},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"106077","n_urlkey":"332454","n_parent":"106075","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/$106075\/to-theme-or-not-to-theme","n_slug":"to-theme-or-not-to-theme","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"9537","n_created":"1533897896","n_modified":"1533909315","n_version":"301113","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/$106075\/to-theme-or-not-to-theme","text":"I don't want to discuss whether the final round themes are good or bad (though I have an opinion about that \ud83d\ude09), but would like to hear what you think about completely neglect the theme. If I have a good game idea that I would like to work on in the context of compo, but I cannot fit it into the theme, should I go for it anyway? If I remember right, one can exclude voting categories when submitting your game, so this could be an option then. Is it allowed to neglect the theme completely after all?","title":"to theme or not to theme","wayback_source":[]}