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Theme ideas Sticky Locked

A topic by Motor City Robots created May 07, 2017 Views: 703 Replies: 14
This topic was locked by Motor City Robots Jun 08, 2017

Locking this down so that these ideas can be voted on.

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HostSubmitted(+3)

Please post your ideas for a theme for this jam. Themes will be voted on at the kickoff event.

Submitted(+2)

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

Jam HostSubmitted

I really like Man vs Machine or Replaceable! Maybe we can have a vote at next meetup?

Man vs. Machine !

HostSubmitted

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

Submitted(+1)

A few ideas:

Screen-within-a-screen

Ruined Places

Gravity

Neon

Snowglobes

Runied places, neon, snowglobes

Submitted(+1)

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


Submitted

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. 

Submitted

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

HostSubmitted

No matter what gets the vote, I will be making a Lion's fan simulator.

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