{"author_name":"hdon","cat":"LD #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"bluescrn","time":"August 19, 2010 12:40 pm","epoch":1282239600,"text":"I’ll never understand LD48 voters… To me ‘Time Limit’ is quite a nice theme – flexible enough to do a lot of fun things.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"August 19, 2010 1:09 pm","epoch":1282241340,"text":"I expect that people vote for what inspires them. ‘Time limit’ doesn’t sound inspiring, it just sounds like a particular gameplay element which appears in many, many games. ‘Claustrophobia’ gives you a feeling. Game devs can channel these feelings into a fun and\/or unique game design. ‘Wheels’, if you can follow the idea here, is too generic and doesn’t excite.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"August 19, 2010 1:12 pm","epoch":1282241520,"text":"I think ‘Time Limit’ is a bit too generic and plain vanilla but it could certainly work. But honestly this time I didn’t spend much time thinking about what to vote, just went through the list and voted most of them down except for a few that I thought would be fun.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"SonnyBone","time":"August 19, 2010 2:06 pm","epoch":1282244760,"text":"Time Limit is a great theme, I think. The potential for a 4th wall shattering LUDUM DARE: THE GAME would be amazing.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"August 19, 2010 2:16 pm","epoch":1282245360,"text":"I didn’t like time limit because it’s too specific. We’d end up with a bunch of random games all with time limits. I think a more abstract theme without a straighforward interpretation is more interesting because you see all the different things people do with it. I don’t think it discourages anyone.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1282238520,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"70266","p_author":"hdon","p_authorkey":"1900","p_urlkey":"106086","p_title":"Time Limit","p_cat":"LD #18 - Enemies as Weapons - 2010","p_event":"LD18","p_time":"1282238520","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"5","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1900","us_name":"hdon","us_username":"hdon","event_start":"1282262400","event_key":"4","event_name":"LD18"},"text":"

I’m also curious what you guys think about themes like “time limit” getting voted so far down. I think working within boundaries helps people be creative and a theme like “time limit,” I think, forces designers to be creative and allows a lot of flexibility. What do you guys think?<\/p>\n

Also: I tried to complete on time for LD7 and LD17 but failed both times. Let’s hope the third time is the charm!<\/p>","time":"August 19th, 2010 12:22 pm","title":"Time Limit"}