In my last post I told you that all my work was gone. It were only 5 hours because I coldn’t start earlier, but I knew the theme all along. In the first 12 hours I couldn’t come up with anything, because this theme means everyting and nothing at the same time. That’s because “Connected Worlds” is more of a broad concept than a theme. More than that, even if you count it as a theme, it is a very bad one. There are one trillion ways in which you could interpret this theme, and even more ways to make a game that somehow, in some way has something to do with connected worlds. The problem is that you could just about make any game and then somehow kind of fit it into the theme.

For me, a lot of the fun was allways in the tight constrains of the Compo, but this time, more so even than with the last themes, those constrains that allways spark creativity were meaningless. Thus, I have zero motivation to start anyting again, even less then in my earlyer posts.

And I know I’m not alone in this. I can tell from the frontpage posts, from all the “So I have this and don’t know what to do with it”, “maybe I will use it, maybe not, I don’t know” and the “I kind of have something that could fit the theme” ‘s

Thus, I want to ask you, the ten people that will find this post inside the compotime frontpage mess, to watch out at the next compo what themes you vote for. Please don’t let us reapeat this.