Locking this down so that these ideas can be voted on.
Please post your ideas for a theme for this jam. Themes will be voted on at the kickoff event.
So I have a few ideas. If this is too much, let me know and I can pare it down to my favorite.
Themes Related to the "Motor" in Motor City
Replaceable Parts
Internal Combustion
Man vs. Machine
Phrase Themes
Which way is up?
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Raise the stakes
You can also find a random theme generator based on previous Ludum Dare suggestions here: http://www.cowfacegames.com/handytools/ludum-dare-theme-generator
I really like Man vs Machine or Replaceable! Maybe we can have a vote at next meetup?
Man vs. Machine !
Some ideas that I came up with while driving around Detroit.
Homelessness
Cycling
Drinking
Getting Lost
River
Business
Some other random ideas inspired by my 4 year old
Wind / Kiting
Kids
Drones
Rockets
Balls
Huge
Ideas inspired by the news
Espionage
Russia
The color orange
Missiles
More ideas just floating around in my head
Prehistoric
Randomness
Eating
A few ideas:
Screen-within-a-screen
Ruined Places
Gravity
Neon
Snowglobes
Runied places, neon, snowglobes
how about...
-Quality control
-Fidget Spinners (I'm sorry)
-Exotic goods courier service
-Smuggling
-Documentary films/film crew
-Game Shows
-80's straight to video action films
-Tech noir
-Fad diets/workouts
-Pyramid schemes
-Area 51
-Life without spoken/written words
-Out of place artifacts from our time (example: aliens land on our abandoned planet in the future, find an everyday object from day-to-day life and have no idea what it is)
-Cold war space race
-Rube Goldberg machines built for everyday tasks
Bad Parts, Good Parts
Some Assembly Required
Rock and Roll
In The Dead of Night
I.C.P. (interpret initials as you wish)
Elevators
No Escape
Rolling The Dice
Breaking Laws
Abandoned
Small worlds (like "in the palm of your hand" feeling)/isometric
cute animals
no violent
play as a car (not a human driving a car)
man vs machine and ruined places also caught my attention sounds cool
I personally like cute and nostalgic but I also like being genuinely surprised. Dark and gritty also catches my attention.
Wow, a lot of good ones here, a few to add to the sorting hat of topics
Retro refit (update a classic game)
Lost
Growth
Invent-a-sport
Out of time
Fish out of water
Cruelty of Dark Souls but twice the depression? You mean QWOP!
Hey I know these may sound weird but:
Dog Park
Altered Rd
Avatar
Prison Life
dog avatar
No matter what gets the vote, I will be making a Lion's fan simulator.
