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My 2nd time around. I'll be using GMS2 and Piskel. Good luck!

Seriously?

How can there be so many people suggesting "One Button", every single ldjam, again and again. Same with all these pseudo-smart entries like "RandomNumber RandomWord".

One Button, One Life, 60 Seconds, 10 Seconds, Two Minutes, One Game.

It's all been here before and it has never been creative in any way. I feel like those are > 50% of the themes in slaughter-round.

I got through all the themes, was a some good once, and a lot of jokes and just bad once. Maybe everyone should only be allowed one suggestion, make people think a little before choosing and cut down the total amount.

For me, the theme slaughter round is now just an irritating chore. It used to be fun but now with all the repetitive, trolling, jokes, and random senseless themes, I'd rather just skip it.

Now, what if...

... only the ones who got in the top 100 or 200 or whatever in the previous jam can submit themes? so it's like that will be their reward? everyone can still slaughter and vote on the submitted themes. I mean, if you got a high rating, you probably take LD seriously and don't treat it as a joke. So you'll be more likely to submit a serious and workable theme.

Anyways, this is just a random thought that popped up in my mind. Now, back to slaughtering...

Just thought it was a neat. Of course they came in from the bottom up.

My slaughter is complete. :smile: Though at these numbers it's probably more of a genocide. How can we make genocide more fun? isn't really a question I want to be asking, but there are probably ways to make this slog, well... less of a slog.

I can't help but wonder how many Light/Dark variations were suggested. However, at what intangible measure of subtle difference do you determine whether something is or isn't a duplicate? I get it's no easy task to streamline this system as long as we have a ton of people throwing three suggestions each into a hat. It's then either: less suggestions per person or less people suggesting and the latter doesn't seem fair. That said, no one is forcing me to vote yes/no 3300 times, If everyone does 500 or 1000 we would probably still get a useful spread.

Just remember, in the end:

1. The Theme Always Sucks™
2. The Theme Doesn't Matter™

I though i've kept more themes than last time, but it was about half. Whatever.

Heya! My team from AAGH Games and I had to skip a number of the past Ludum Dares while working on getting our first game out on Steam (which, btw, we did in August), so we're looking forward to taking a break to jam again.

We'll be livestreaming progress on our Twitch channel again, as we always do. Good luck to everyone, and have fun!

I just saw it's coming up the weekend after next. I'm totally down! I'll use Unity, Gimp, Inkscape, Audacity, and whatever open source or free to try goodness I can find! Good luck everyone! :)

I'm excited to join you all for LD45. It's my second time, but my first going completely solo! I think I'll use Unreal, Photoshop, and probably free resources for the audio to save time ;w; but we shall see~

Good luck everyone, let's all have fun!

I was rather picky this time. My criteria seemed to boil down to whether after rating fifty games it would still be fun and interesting to see everybody's interpretation.

Some of my favorites were: * If the state of florida had a baby * Inconvenient Superpower * Reverse Character Arc * Too Many Ducks * One Overpowered Ability * 1st World Problems * An Ant, a Pig, and a Dragon * Social Samurai * A new sport * Words Have Power

I down-voted every theme that seemed to advocate basic functions, like "The camera follows the player" or "Something changes", which are part of almost every game.

As far as voting on 3000+ themes is concerned...

I think rather than having every person vote on every theme, a playoff bracket might work better. X participants are grouped together and assigned X percentage of random themes to vote on, and then groups are reassigned and the winning themes go head to head, etc, etc...

Excited for the theme; There are good ones however far between.

I have been wanting to learn to code and make games for years, figured this might be a good way to motivate myself. Now I have a deadline to learn how to use Godot and make basic (yet consistent and pleasing!) art.

I wish we could look through all of the themes again. Maybe it's so people can't go back and change their mind on a bunch of things?

The themes I had put in were:

• hand held
• infestation
• everyone is mad at you

Edit: typo

It's been a whole year since I last competed my Ludum Dare. In the past year, I have released two games on STEAM , and my understanding of games has deepened . So you see ,I'm back , I'm looking forward to doing something interesting this time.

Congratulations on the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China

Guess, I'll join, when most of you would already have prototypes :)

Anyway, good luck, everyone!

hello my name is jannick, im a 3D artist. i have only been part of one game jam before that i did alone, but this time i was wondering if i could join a team. is there any team that needs a 3d artist for the upcoming game jam? you can see some of my work on my twitter, and my last game jam on GameJolt :)

twitter: https://twitter.com/JBL_1995

Ludum Dare 43: https://gamejolt.com/games/RunningWildGame/382869

Haven't been pixelarting for quite some time. Just something to easy the hype for upcoming event.