My teammate and I have finished our Slaughter Round by about a day ago.

I want to say several things about the sugested themes.

First of all there is about 20 themes with completely inappropriate words from filthy language. Let's be honest this is not that place, where we should use such language. Also I flaged everything that seemed to me connected to inappropriate themes I mean something (21+ or R-rated not just for blood). There are so many participants much younger. And there are much more young people playing our games and reading our final Ludum Dare themes. So I want to ask authors of these themes: "Are you shure that you want turn Ludum Dare to one of those R-rated jams?" I really hope that I was too suspicious and have flaged several (or even many) harmless themes. But I really ask you to think twice about your themes next time.

Second thing to discuss is grate number of one-word themes with very popular words. There is a list of words used in all of the themes, that were used 10 or more times. I will put the list at the end of the post. But for example there were such themes: "infinifinity", "Infinite", "infinity", "balance", "Balance is everything", "Balance is key", "Balance is the key", "The balance!!" and "The key is balance". At one moment my team was suspecting that we are fighting Marvel's Thanos with his love to Balance, Infinity, Death and etc. And again I want to ask you: "Are you suggesting themes just to suggest something or do you really think that you ideas are that intresting to let them be the theme of the LD round?". To be honest, I'm not shure that I still like my themes that much to suggest them at least once more. I still love them but I have found several themes that express similar ideas a bit more elegant.

So here we go. The list of popular words (just lowered. We dont count dead-death and live-life as one common idea of themes): you 234 it 147 one 117 your 101 game 85 time 79 world 78 only 58 what 57 don't 54 out 47 life 44 up 44 it's 44 everything 43 with 41 more 38 all 36 this 36 that 35 control 34 something 33 light 33 can 32 go 32 down 31 two 29 space 28 nothing 28 can't 27 death 27 there 27 have 27 new 26 player 25 good 25 i 25 me 24 do 24 power 23 end 22 make 22 many 21 keep 21 better 20 things 20 than 20 running 20 my 19 different 19 dark 19 enemy 19 back 19 win 19 bad 18 together 18 get 18 small 18 like 18 we 17 old 17 die 17 just 16 faster 16 without 16 see 16 genre 16 lost 16 key 16 will 16 change 15 1 15 first 15 2 15 rules 15 less 15 kill 15 use 15 worlds 15 vs 15 unconventional 15 you're 14 friend 14 always 14 build 14 deep 14 here 13 must 13 mechanic 13 way 13 thing 13 future 13 going 13 mind 12 stop 12 against 12 balance 12 inside 12 alone 12 changing 12 simple 12 love 12 big 12 makes 12 day 12 doesn't 12 based 12 lose 12 hero 11 gameplay11 another 11 music 11 color 11 darkness11 story 11 play 11 button 11 let 11 theme 11 controls11 limited 10 never 10 room 10 how 10 wrong 10 them 10 side 10 top 10 mine 10 has 10 right 10 enemies 10 was 10 floating 10 environment 10 fake 10 live 10 take 10 slow 10 madness 10 being 10 fall 10 past 10 perspective 10 movement 10 breaking 10 moving 10 fast 10 physics 10 smaller 10 seconds 10 move 10 own 10 fire 10