Theme Baffilation

simonwittber on 2006/08/29 04:07 of Entity Crisis

At first, I was a little baffled as to why all the themes had a common undertheme...

I even became a little disappointed...

However, having slept on the problem, I now have some good ideas, and I believe the theme choice was good. It has forced me to rethink my ideas, and come up with something new.

Gameward Ho!

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Cthulhu32 on 2006/08/30 06:18:

I'm hoping I have the same revelations, I'm pretty much baffeled with the current theme choices.

I'm not too into making kiddy games, so something like pull a rabbit out of the hat I will have to stretch way out... waaayy out for.

Oh well, I guess I should not have expected a theme such as "Classic Arcade Game Remakes" :-D

simonwittber on 2006/08/30 10:17:

I don't like kiddie games either. I always like to try and make some kind of impact with a game, negative or positive.

I've started thinking of a survival horror game, based on an encounter with a theme park trickster. Trouble is, it will require _loads_ of artwork, which will be in short supply for me, this time round.

Ron on 2006/08/30 12:51:

I tried not to be distracted by the overall "circus performance" feeling of the themes. If I focus on one title, forget about the others, then I can think of a much wider spectrum of games.

For example, pick a card could be about a story where a girl/guy draws a card at a fortune tellers, and it changes her/his life forever.. from a story like that, you could create a game of any kind.

As Richard said, the theme elements are not required to be pushed on every pixel of the screen, they are just to make your mind roll.

shang on 2006/09/01 09:24:

I think the overall circus theme is just meant to be a "cute" way to present the options. I.e. "pick a card" doesn't have to be a card trick thing, but any card-based game and "sawn in half" can be anything that has a game mechanic based on halving.

eikonoklastes on 2006/09/02 01:45:

That's no fun. Literally sawing (people, cows, boats) in half is better. :(

eikonoklastes on 2006/09/02 01:52:

I want to make a game where you're the Kool Aid man and the objective is to smash through the walls of people's houses. "OH YEAH!!" Maybe for another pyweek. (Probably get sued though.)

Marlow on 2006/09/02 18:32:

Could the theme be just a starting point for an idea for the main game? How close to "on theme" or "on underlying theme" do we have to be?

Jay on 2006/09/02 22:09:

You don't even have to follow the theme at all if you really hate it. You'll get marked down, but whatever. This competition is about learning.