Theme suggestions please - for the TOTB4 GameSalad Game Design competition

StormyStudio

Theme suggestions for the TOTB4 GameSalad Game Design competition

As the title suggests, I'm after everyones theme suggestions for the contest.

The final theme will be announced at the start of the contest on New Years Day. (count down clock at:
http://www.stormystudio.com/totb4.html)

Everyone entering the contest has to create a game some how based around the given theme.

The previous 3 themes have been:

Space,
Arctic and Antarctic,
The Ocean,

So please give ideas of any sort...

either something similar to before...(i.e. The Desert, Jungle, Farm animals, dreams,)

or perhaps a bit different i.e. (end of the world, electricity, political monetary systems, sharing, )

or perhaps make the theme a technical one i.e. (one touch games, use two multi touches, use the accelerometer in a new way)
....

Be great to see what ideas people come up with...it would be great to find a theme thats popular but not over down on the app store...(i.e. Zombies are cool but there are so many zombie games out there..)

calvin9403

how about Mars?

LeonardDeveloper

food......... (It would be an interesting one)
The Earth (Loads of possibilities, i dunno>>worms)
Flying

JackYd

fiery evil theme

mu-kowAPPS

How about "black and white"

LeonardDeveloper

I like the idea black and white!!!!.......
How about we make an ultimate theme for this years TOTB
CRAZY, INSANE, OUT OF THE BOX (IT CANT BE FROM A REAL THING I.E> SEA, EARTH ANIMAL, YOU HAVE TO COME UP TITH EVERYTHING... EVERYTHING HAS TO BE NUTS!!!!)

mu-kowAPPS

I really think an abstract theme would open more creative avenues. I am not competing but am interested to seethe results.

LeonardDeveloper

@mu-kowAPPS I actually agree with you!, I really really really really like the black & WHite idea, I want to do that

MarkOnTheIron

Maybe this time instead of using an environment oriented theme you could go for a time oriented theme, something like Prehistory, Medieval Europe, Roman Empire, etc...

That way I think you could get a lot of ideas flowing. For example if you set something like "Seventeenth Century" as theme you could get entries that may go from action packed pirates games to brain challenging puzzle games set in some king's court.



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IsabelleK

My ideas:
Life in Motion (games about any sort of vehicles - cars, trains, planes etc.)
Orient (games about anything related to Middle or Far East - like food, culture, ninjas, karate, crusades, etc.)
Fantasy (I think I don't have to explain this one
Sci-Fi (I think I don't have to explain this one
Love (games about anything releted to Love - relationship, family, God, dates, romance, etc.)

Just my 2 cents

StormyStudio

thanks guys....

some nice ideas in there..

more are welcome...

mynameisace

Based on your latest work Stormy... Sound... This can be interpreted a million different ways, so might be fun to see what people do with it.

Ace

gteteris001

cars
platformer
ninja
robots
flying animals

mu-kowAPPS

A couple more ideas:

Steamboy
Space
Retro
Rubber
Evolution
Temperature
60 seconds (all levels have a 60s time limit, or something to that effect)

I'll post if I think of more

morphinegamingmachine

arcade remixes. twists to old school stuff. no original game play allowed

gteteris001

Underground/digging
tunnels
water
puzzle
mystical creatures
the city
fire
forest

ccp

I like the idea of a "Jungle" theme. Also, "Black and White" sounds cool.

LeonardDeveloper

I think "Black & White" Would be a great theme, because it would realy show how creative a developer really is!!,
I.E have a look at the top selling iPad app: Contre Jour http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/contre-jour/id440693481?mt=8
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applaudmobile

irritable avians ?? ;-)

JPickard

pre-history

applaudmobile

dreams
post-apocalypse
the future (robots etc)
parallel universes
love

LeonardDeveloper

Germs

LiquidGameworks

I'll second time based themes. I think you could generate a wide range of creative ideas if you just went with something like "The Past".

StormyStudio

ooh 'inside of a box' .. I see what you did there :-)

Like 'Rubber', leads to game ideas that would make good use of the gamesalad physics system...


more and more please....

App Surge

Sports
Grunge
Burgers
Giant evil ants

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ozboybrian

Just do ZOMBIE... Like in the image. I like Zombie

Benjamin_m5

Please nothing with sci-fi or the space...

I would like a topic like:

- sport
- factory
- etc.

Ferin

White & Black sounds cool, it gives not only literal possibilities but also metaphoric ones. Like evil - good, etc.

If i can suggest something guys, this trade supposed to help stormystudio to choose one theme, so giving him like ten doesn't help.

JPickard

I could have fun with Black & White, too, as long as it's not taken too literally.

LeonardDeveloper

Black and white as in dark and basic art not necessarily the colors black and white;
I meen more like this style:


Just my two cents!! ,
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JamieOneil

Well, it is 2012, the so called 'end of the world'

So i think something along the lines of that! Theme- 2012/End of the world.
You had a great idea in your examples...