I was curious what all the past Ludum dare themes were and thought I would share what was on Wikipedia. (I tried copying and pasting, the table, but it all came out as one giant paragraph when I posted)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludum_Dare#Results
I see two types of themes that tend to be weeded out... the really bad ones, and the really good ones.
The best themes seem too limiting at first glance, and since there's so many to slaughter, they never get that second glance.
In the final rounds, people will vote for their favorite, but also the ones that aren't absolutely terrible. The former being more polarizing than the latter means that the "eh it's okay" themes wind up being the winner.
I think it'd be better with we only were allowed ONE suggestion. If we had to really put thought into our one suggestion, we're more likely to make it a good one. It'd make the initial slaughter round less time-consuming and give us a better selection in the end.
Like, consider this. What if in the end there are three choices and only two people voting on it, and they have to pick there first and second choice: 1 - Great theme that the first person loves but the second person does not. 2 - Great theme that the second person loves but the first person does not. 3 - Generic and mediocre theme the both people feel they can work with.
In the end, the first theme gets one vote, the second gets one vote, and the third gets two. The generic and mediocre theme wins out.
Scale that up to ten themes and thousands of voters, and the great themes have no chance. The throwaway themes that people suggested just because they felt they needed to have three win every time.
On the contrary, the greatness of the other themes will become evident to the person who didn't choose them once they actually start developing.
This is my first time to attend Ludum Dare. I've heard about this event for years, and this time I decided to join! Really excited about this!!:smile:
but what's the plan for the spam comments on posts and games? although they're less intrusive and fun to dunk on so if they have to stay then i'm fine with that lol
Me: Could you give me a list of 5 of the worst themes you can think of? Like... The programmers need to reeeeaaaly hate it. The dread would be 10/10 if one of those would win
GTP: refuses
Me: I won't acctually suggest any of those, I swear!
GTP: Here are five hypothetical themes that could potentially be difficult for Ludum Dare participants:
Testing this to trigger spam, please ignore. #random I am a spam tester!
Second test, please ignore. Testing again. One more test for good measure!
Third and final test, please ignore.
Well if I can my engine/framework done in time I'll participate ;)
It looks like people like to post their suggestions? I figured these had some fun possibility space.
And looking at the front page, it seems as though people like to post their suggestions, so, you know, when in Rome...
It's my first time participating in this event, I dont really understand what's going on here but I can already tell it will be fun :)
These are my theme suggestions
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modular: doesn't necessarily mean a game that is entirely modular; you could take it more as inspiration rather than as directions
alternate reality game: not to be confused with ARG (augmented reality game, for the few who don't know), this isn't just "what would __ be like in a different universe," this could be completely off-the-wall, "what might a game from a different universe look/play like entirely" (admittedly not the best theme, but could be fun, have had the idea floating around since LD52)
mixed metaphors: a watched pot gathers no moss, a bird in the hand makes Jack a dull boy; could be fun coming up with wacky ideas, as they say "The sky has its day" or is it "Every dog is the limit"
Normally, I would try to think of themes that are more evocative of actual concrete ideas rather than topics to use, but I had the one idea for a while, and the other two I thought could be fun.
All in all i think they are relatively decent
One of the things that bummed me out about the site move was losing the nice page with all my games in one place. I had 15 (in a row!) on ludumdare.com, and having them be split really sapped my motivation.
The old site being removed was another blow, so I decided to go onto the Internet Archive and save all my old games, repackage them and upload them to itch.io. Now all 18 of my Ludum Dare games are finally in the same place and I'm ready to join in for 53. Bring it on!
Leave from work booked, ready to go in a little over 3 weeks :grin:
Obligatory theme suggestions list: - Mysterious origins - Hopepunk - Fishing-horror (yes, I've been a watching a lot of "Dredge" gameplay videos...)
I'm very proud that I stopped myself from submitting "spam" or "spambot" as a theme suggestion.
As usual, will be using Unity & Aseprite. Will also use Trello again for planning, as not doing this until day 3 last time wasn't particularly useful :grimacing: .
Hi all. I hope everybody is doing well.
I was prevented from joining ludum dare the last 2 times. And I'll be honest it was no fun! So a dayjob preventing me from joining events like this is a no-no from now on! Now I am back and just want to share my enthusiasm for the event.
Thank you all for making this possible it really is a highlight in my life. :smile:
My theme suggestions for this event:
I am a little bit disappointed reading all these comments about ChatGPT. I dislike this way in order to define a set of themes - or a behavior. Boys, where is your creativity? Of course, ChatGPT is fun - and the technology behind the curtain is amazing. Honestly I like how it can structure its answers - more concisely than Wikipedia for mobile devices and often clever, but what about us - the LudumDare Community? Do you really need to free your brain of pure human being's reflections? However, if you want to try ChatGPT, I created a console application in C# which allows you to send some requests to OpenAI according to its protocol. It's fun for a while - no more. The repository is shared on GitHub at the link below. See you later. I wish you the best ++
https://github.com/geckoo1337/ChatGPT
