First time entering a big game jam, can't wait for the experience! Here's my themes:

All In the Name

Infinite Limits

Out of Time

Bosca ceoil is an app for making music, but the instruments sound really bad. Please don't use it. Especially the percussion. It sounds like someone blowing into a microphone. It's sometimes better to just not have any music, then to have bad one.

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I'm a little worried that the majority of the themes haven't really called to me. I felt that for a lot of game jams. And so I took a look at my favorites and compared them. It didn't take long to come up with a general rule that seemed to apply to all the themes pretty well.

Dan's theme rule:

Any word in the theme should inspire how each team member sees the game. I.e. A theme word should pull up visuals and game mechanics and sound and story...

For instance, Global Game Jam's previous theme, "No Place Like Home" didn't really thrill me. "Home" brought up images, but none of the other words did. Home did not really lend itself to game mechanics, or sounds. It sort of lent itself to story, but not in any way that felt strong. Now don't get me wrong. Most teams came up with games. Mine did. (a snail trying to makes its way through different parts of the house, where you played in VR, and could run up walls. - it was a fast snail) But it was more the comradery that made it worth while to do so. I'm sure that theme may have worked great for a few. But I think over all it was harder to connect to.

Some words that do work for this rule: (for me anyway) - Apocalypse - Adding a some concepts to this first one as an example. - Story: Stopping an Apocalypse, building up from the ruins, restarting civilization, even trying to grow a farm to get enough to eat. - Visuals: world in ruins or could be going that way. - Mechanics: escaping zombies, finding supplies, running game even - Sound: Could be horror/zombie, could be intense/fast paced, could be slow/environmental - Escape - Dark - Fire - Transmission - Social - Survive - Destroy - Faster - Distraction

On ideas that don't lend them selves to helping shape every role's perspective, I typically think it is far more biased. I.e. I like "Surviving on less" but worry I'm biased, because it encompasses a particular game concept or two that I was interested in, not because the theme words really help shape all parts of the game. I.e. "Surviving" works for the rule, but "Less" does not. However, "less" in this case provides direction and shaping for surviving. I'm not sold on a rule that allows for this. For that matter, I'm not 100% sold on my rule as is, but for now it seems pretty sound.

I'd love to hear opinions on this.

My LD45 submission : https://zwodahs.itch.io/ld45-squareworld and My itch https://zwodahs.itch.io/

My tools for this time round are

• Language: Haxe
• Framework: Heaps (with some helper libraries at https://gitlab.com/ZwodahS/hh_common)
• Dev Environment: Vim + Terminal
• Graphics: aseprite
• Sound: sfxr ?

I tend to have a slight bias towards building simulation or mechanics. My submission tend not to have any level designs. I hope to do some type of level design in this LD.

All right, mates. I spent some time in thinking bubble and here's what I've got for you:

Or the same in copy-pasteable text format: - Dismantle to progress - In a loop - Armor suit is a key feature

Comments would be appreciated! Cheers!

And who can advise me on a good writing service? Looks like publishing failed.

And who can advise me on a good writing service?

My success rate has been rather less than ideal these past few years. When I think about why, I come up with the usual reasons.

• Theme paralysis
• Out of practice with tools
• Sleepy

1 is a bad excuse, 2 is fixable, and 3 just needs better planning.

For 1 if the theme is stupid, I'll embrace the stupid.

For 2, I'm going back to my own rather ancient set of libraries and tools. Ye olde GrogLibs

For 3, I'm going to try to get something running in just 4-8 hours. Then I can spend the rest of the weekend on improvements (at least that's the plan).

After missing out on the last jam or two I'm glad to be back at it again! This time around I have a couple more helpers, so I'm hoping we can make something really awesome with the theme we get!

Speaking of themes, here are my suggestions: - Minute to win it - It comes naturally - It never ends

WHO'S NOT A NERD, FOLLOW AND I'LL FOLLOW BACK!

I just wanna get new jamming homies u knoeeeee 🥺

HELO GAIS HEY DO U LAIK MI THEMS TO THIS YEER?

Decided to join up even though I have not created a game before.

(Except for a simple console based battleships game + turning cards game in swift at school).

This is going to go so well ... ... setting the bar at not completing, I can always only surprise myself positively.

(Curious to see where this blog appears - be it on my profile or else where).

Regardless, suggested the following themes: - The unknown beyond - The roads not traveled - Walls of isolation

... and if any of them are chosen I am pretty clueless on what I will make. I guess time will tell.

Half a year really just flashes by what the hecc.. amazing

1. Have fun
2. Improve my skills
3. Add an entry to my portfolio

My previous entries:

LD45 : Hero Without A Stick

LD44 : The Hostage

LD43 : Sacrificium

LD42 : Animal Wrath

LD41 : Skate'n'Snipe

Check my other jams games.

See you soon!

Because of the corona-virus, LD46 is likely to be a real online gamejam.

I tried to make them sound cool but also remain open enough to have different interpretations.