{"author_link":"\/users\/shaolin-dave","author_name":"Shaolin Dave","author_uid":"shaolin-dave","comments":[],"epoch":1680904872,"event":"LD53","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":333271,"likes":12,"metadata":{"p_key":"176893","p_author":"Shaolin Dave","p_authorkey":"1011376","p_urlkey":"406354","p_title":"Why \"Folklore\" might be my favorite theme suggestion ever.","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD53","p_time":"1680904872","p_likes":"12","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1011376","us_name":"Shaolin Dave","us_username":"shaolin-dave","event_start":"1682726400","event_key":"118","event_name":"Ludum Dare 53"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD53","removed_author":false},"_superparent":332127,"_trust":8,"author":11376,"body":"![_ludumDareFolklore.png](\/\/\/raw\/07c\/2\/z\/577d9.png)\n\nThis made it to the final round last year for LD50 and I was pretty disappointed that it lost.  I wound up getting sick and having to abandon that jam anyway, but I'm hoping it comes back and wins someday.\n\nThere's a huge amount of source material for inspiration, and with no restrictions on game mechanics, it allows for a lot of variety.  I had more immediate game ideas that ever before, here's what I came up with in about 5 minutes:\n\n- A pet simulator where you need to take care of a Griffin or Cerberus.\n\n- A Pac-Man style game where you play as the Wendigo from American Indian folklore, chasing down people to eat them.\n\n- A stealth game where you need to avoid a Minotaur as you escape the Labyrinth.\n\n- An idea I had for \"Mirror\" was a game where you're hunting Medusa, but you can't look directly at her, only her reflection around corners.\n\n- A racing game like Mario Kart on Rainbow Road, where you're chasing a Leprechaun to the end of the rainbow to steal his pot of gold.\n\n- A Pok\u00e9mon Snap style game where you're trying to snap pictures of Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster.\n\n- A quiz game featuring the Sphinx.\n\n- A sea battle simulator where you need to fight off a Kraken.\n\n- A simulator where you're a Mermaid having to do Seaworld-style tricks.\n\n- The Monkey King of Chinese folklore could have mechanics based of either the cloud he rides on, or his shrinking\/extending staff.\n\n- A hunting simulator where you need to track and kill a Jackalope.\n\n- A sumo game where you play as Paul Bunyan competing against Goliath.\n\n...and some more that came to mind afterwards:\n\n- You're a werewolf who keeps transforming back and forth whenever the clouds cover the moon.  Attack as a wolf, hide as a man.\n\n- A snowboarding game where you play as a Yeti\n\n- Game Genie. Basically just make any game you want, but every time the player starts, they can choose three cheats to have enabled.\n\n- Stealth game where you're an alcoholic and have to steal a beer from the Devil's Chair in Florida without paranomal investigators seeing you\n\n- \"Untitled Chupacabra Game\"\n\n- A rhythm\/music game where the Fremont Troll of Seattle comes to life and starts a grunge band\n\n- A Q-Bert style game where Jiangshi are hopping after you\n\n- Have you seen the dogs playing Poker painting? Werewolves playing Poker.","comments":4,"comments-timestamp":"2023-04-12T16:20:59Z","created":"2023-04-07T22:00:15Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":333271,"love":12,"love-timestamp":"2023-09-19T00:49:53Z","meta":[],"modified":"2023-09-19T16:53:17Z","name":"Why \"Folklore\" might be my favorite theme suggestion ever.","node-timestamp":"2023-09-19T16:53:17Z","parent":332448,"parents":[1,5,9,332127,332448],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/$332448\/why-folklore-might-be-my-favorite-theme-suggestion-ever","published":"2023-04-07T22:01:12Z","scope":"public","slug":"why-folklore-might-be-my-favorite-theme-suggestion-ever","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":1149327},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"333271","n_urlkey":"406354","n_parent":"332448","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/$332448\/why-folklore-might-be-my-favorite-theme-suggestion-ever","n_slug":"why-folklore-might-be-my-favorit","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"11376","n_created":"1680904815","n_modified":"1695142397","n_version":"1149327","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/$332448\/why-folklore-might-be-my-favorite-theme-suggestion-ever","text":"![_ludumDareFolklore.png](\/\/\/raw\/07c\/2\/z\/577d9.png)\n\nThis made it to the final round last year for LD50 and I was pretty disappointed that it lost.  I wound up getting sick and having to abandon that jam anyway, but I'm hoping it comes back and wins someday.\n\nThere's a huge amount of source material for inspiration, and with no restrictions on game mechanics, it allows for a lot of variety.  I had more immediate game ideas that ever before, here's what I came up with in about 5 minutes:\n\n- A pet simulator where you need to take care of a Griffin or Cerberus.\n\n- A Pac-Man style game where you play as the Wendigo from American Indian folklore, chasing down people to eat them.\n\n- A stealth game where you need to avoid a Minotaur as you escape the Labyrinth.\n\n- An idea I had for \"Mirror\" was a game where you're hunting Medusa, but you can't look directly at her, only her reflection around corners.\n\n- A racing game like Mario Kart on Rainbow Road, where you're chasing a Leprechaun to the end of the rainbow to steal his pot of gold.\n\n- A Pok\u00e9mon Snap style game where you're trying to snap pictures of Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster.\n\n- A quiz game featuring the Sphinx.\n\n- A sea battle simulator where you need to fight off a Kraken.\n\n- A simulator where you're a Mermaid having to do Seaworld-style tricks.\n\n- The Monkey King of Chinese folklore could have mechanics based of either the cloud he rides on, or his shrinking\/extending staff.\n\n- A hunting simulator where you need to track and kill a Jackalope.\n\n- A sumo game where you play as Paul Bunyan competing against Goliath.\n\n...and some more that came to mind afterwards:\n\n- You're a werewolf who keeps transforming back and forth whenever the clouds cover the moon.  Attack as a wolf, hide as a man.\n\n- A snowboarding game where you play as a Yeti\n\n- Game Genie. Basically just make any game you want, but every time the player starts, they can choose three cheats to have enabled.\n\n- Stealth game where you're an alcoholic and have to steal a beer from the Devil's Chair in Florida without paranomal investigators seeing you\n\n- \"Untitled Chupacabra Game\"\n\n- A rhythm\/music game where the Fremont Troll of Seattle comes to life and starts a grunge band\n\n- A Q-Bert style game where Jiangshi are hopping after you\n\n- Have you seen the dogs playing Poker painting? Werewolves playing Poker.","title":"Why \"Folklore\" might be my favorite theme suggestion ever.","wayback_source":[]}