One of the themes in today voting is ‘Games that shouldn't be in first person done in first person’ and it’s possibly the worst game jam theme I have ever seen.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea, it has so many cool possibilities but it also destroys the idea of ludum dare and game jams in general.

Let’s face it, first person is hard. It requires you to be able to work in 3D such a lot of jammers don’t know how to , every one in construct and game maker just got ruled out. But even for those of us requiring 3D just adds extra technical challenge that many won’t want to face.

But it’s not just technically more difficult, it also places massive limitations and challenges on design. Instantly any normal type of first person is out, shooters, platformers, walking simulations, board and card games. Finding something that isn’t first person, can be made into first person and is still fun seems almost impossible.

Personally I just see this as a topic that is far to challenging and far to limiting and far to limiting and will result in less people went wrong and less people completing.

That been said there is another part of me that would like to see the mayhem it creates. It’s a fantastic idea, I just don’t think it works in this context.

But what do you think? What ideas for this topic have you come up with so far?