Would anybody be up to participating in a ludum dare/experimental gameplay type competition/event for the Daily Click? I just thought of it the other day and didn't think it'd fly. So, would any of you participate/be interested in such an event thingy?
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Well, for ludum dare, the idea is to make an entire game from scratch(or use engine code) including all assets, music, sound, etc, within a 48 hour period. A list of themes are suggested, voted on, voted on again to narrow it down, voted on a third time for the final theme. Then people need to build a game that at least matches that theme. LD17's theme was islands, so everyone had to make an island themed game. Games are then submitted for judging with source and are then "judged"(critiqued mostly) by everyone who participated.
In the case of experimental gameplay, the theme is pre chosen. For ie, this month was repitition/repeated gameplay. Participants have to make a game withing roughly seven-ish days and then submit it. The submitted games are posted on the site at the end of the month. In both cases, the game must be completely made by one person.
@omc: In a nutshell, that is the reason why Ludum Dare exists. (according to the keynote speech anyways). This is that time that you specifically set aside to making a game. Since, you already know in advance when it's going to be, just put everything else on the backburner and tinker with a game for a few hours.
@marko: Does that help?
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I like this idea The most fun competitions I've entered have been those based around a theme. I'd try to make time to enter it.
I also like the idea of people working on all of the assets in the game, as many people seem to lack confidence in their graphics or music abilities. Perhaps it could be combined with Assault Andy's idea of teams for one of the competitions, but I do prefer the idea of working on each game alone.
@scott s: Most of them generally are, I think. That's what the miniludum dare is and that's what last weeks was. So, weekends would be a definite time to set aside.
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I think, that when the new site poll comes up, it should be about this question. That way, we get a good amount of people saying that they would participate. Now, if we can just nudge one of the admins in that direction...
Or I could start one this month with an admin backing up as well. That'd be cool.
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I was actually going to start it at the end of the month. That way so as not to interfere with mother's day and all. (you guys did remember right?)I was going to pick something from the last list of themes of ludum dare. But I'll see what your guys opinions are:
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2030: The Year We Make Contact
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5
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Aardvarks
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Abandoned
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Absolute
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Abstract
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Achilles Heel
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Afterlife
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Age
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Aggression
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Alien skies
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Alphabet
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Alpha Men
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Android Hell
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Animal Kingdom
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Annihilation
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A (very) non-addictive game
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Antarctica
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Anti-gravity
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Apologise
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Ambiguity
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Attack of the Zombie Gnomes from Hell
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Armageddon
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Atmosphere
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Arcade Games
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Armada
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Artificial Intelligence
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Asian carp
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Asymmetrical Multiplayer
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Augmented Reality
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Authentic
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Autobiography
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Bacteria
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Bacon
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Bad Luck
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Bad is Good
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Baked Goods as Weapons
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Bank Job
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Bards
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Batteries not included
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Bats
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Battle of Archenemies
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Before and After
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Betrayal
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Blood/Bloodyness
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Board games
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Boredom
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Boring and Generic Theme that Does Little to Stimulate Creativity
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Boundless
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Breaking laws (of physics especially)
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Braiding
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British Simulator
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Buggy game, to win you have to workaround the bugs. or die trying.
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Bullet Hell
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Burning
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Cables/Wires
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Cash
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Castles
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Cats
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Cat and mouse
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Cellular automata
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Centrifugal Force
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Childhood
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Choose your own theme
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Claustrophobia or Agorophobia
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Claustrophobia AND Agorophobia
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Clay
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Clockwork
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Clowns
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Code Breaking
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Coffee
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Cold
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Collecting
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Collective
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Colours
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Comedy As A Weapon
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Comic Mischief
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Commodore 64
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Companion
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Conciousness
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Conundrum
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Confusion
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Consequences
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Conservation of energy
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Constellations
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Continuous motion
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Contraception
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Contrasts
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Controversy-baiting
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Conversation
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Corporate Evil
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Sheep + Wolves
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Create a game that the computer plays, try to outsmart it
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Crew
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Crisis
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Cyberpunk
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Cthulhu
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Cryptozoology
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Curiosity
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Cute War
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Darkness
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Database
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Death
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Deceit, Deception
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Deep holes
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Deities
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Delayed reaction
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Democracy
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Demoscene
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Dentist
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Determinism
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Deviousness
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Diabetes
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Dictator
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Diplomacy
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Direction
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Dirigibles, hot air balloons, airships, etc
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Discipline
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Distress
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Downfall
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Dreams
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Ducks
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Duel
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Duplicates
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Dystopia
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Earthquake
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Economics
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Ecosystem
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Edge
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Elderly people
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Elephants
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End of the World
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Enemies as Weapons
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Enemy Is Cheating!
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Endless War
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Escape
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Evil
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Evolution
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Excessive Explosions
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Existentialism
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Fairy Tale
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Falling
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Famous Boss Fights, Reimagined
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Farming
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Fear of Clowns
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Fight for your future
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Fishing
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Floating
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Floating islands
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Flocking
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Flood
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Food
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Food Chain
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Forest
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Four seconds to midnight
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Fractal
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Freefall
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Friends
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Frozen
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Frustration
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Gears
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Gender Equality
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Genius
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Ghosts
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Gibs
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Gifts
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Gimmicky Mechanic
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Gliding
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Glitch
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The Goal is to Lose
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Goliath
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Good and Evil
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Goodbye
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Gore
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Gotchas
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Graveyards
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Gravity
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Greed
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Grid Based
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Hello World
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Hide and Seek
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High-brow
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Highnoon
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Hints
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History Rewritten
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Hitch hiker
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Hollywood Physics
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Homages
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Horror
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How everyone votes for the only theme you don't have an idea for
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Hunt
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Humor
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Hype
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Hyperspace
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I don't understand how you can believe that!
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Ignorance is Bliss
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Illuminati
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Illusions
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'I'm lost!!!'
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Immersion
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Immortality
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Impostors
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Imitation
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In Kazakhstan
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Infinity
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Influence
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Insanity
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Inter-continental Ballistic Missile
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Interesting Gameplay Mechanics
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Interface Screw
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Interference
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Intrigue
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Intuition
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Invention
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Inventory
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Ironing
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Irony
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Islands
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Isolation
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Items
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Japan
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Journey
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Jump
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Kittens
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Know when to quit
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Labyrinth
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Lame meme
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Large Hadron Collider (emphasis on the large)
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Leadership
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Legs
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Liars
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Life in the atom
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Light & Shadow
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Lines
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Look After You
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Look behind you!
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Lowered expectations
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Luck
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Ludum Dare 17
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Machinery and its Merits
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Mankind
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Many Missiles
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Magnetic
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Mashup
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Medical error
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Metagame
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Miracles
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Misanthropy
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Misdirection
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Missing senses
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Modding
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Multiplayer
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Mustache
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Mutation
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My first time
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Mysteries
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Mythology
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Network
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Never the same game twice
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Nightmare
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Nihilism
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Non-violent conflict
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Not Penny's Boat
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Now!
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Odyssey
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One button
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One hit and you die
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Order of operations
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Origin
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Other Worldly/Out of this world
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Outnumbered
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Outside My Comfort Zone
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Pandas
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Paper
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Parallel Universes, multiverse
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Paranormal
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Particles
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Party Game
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Pasta
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Perpetual motion
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Physics
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Pirates
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Platformer
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Player-Driven Game logic
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Player-Driven Story
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Player-Driven Vehicle
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Please enter your name
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Portals
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Pretentious Art Game
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Prison
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Procedural generation
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Programmer Art
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Psychology
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Pterodactyls
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Puns
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Pyrotechnics
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Quantum mechanics
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Random controls/physics
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Recurring dream
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Relative
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Relatives
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Remakes
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Research
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Resources (limited?)
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Respawn
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Return to Tesla City
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Revenge
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Reverse
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Revolve!
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Risk vs Reward
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Roadtrip
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Roadkill
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Robots
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Rock, Paper, Scissors
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Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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Roguelike
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Role Reversal
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Rythm
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Sacrifice
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Safari
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Science
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Schizophrenia
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Second and Third Themes Combined
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Secrets
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Select Start
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Secretary
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Seriously, WTF
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Sex
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Shapeshifting
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Showdown
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Sidekicks Revenge
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Size
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Simulacrum
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Simulator
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Simultaneous
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Singularity
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Slippery Slope
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Slipstream
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Slow/fast
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Slow Motion
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Small Violent Robots
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Smile
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Snails
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Snow
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Sound
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Sound is your friend
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Space
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Space Opera
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Spin
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Statistics
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Statsis
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Steampunk
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Story
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Strange controls
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Subjective Opinion
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Suck
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Survival
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Super heroes
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Superheroes Performing Mundane Tasks
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Survival
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Synchronization
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Taking Advantage of Weaknesses
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Tears
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Telegraphy
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Teleportation
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Telephone
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“That was easy” – “A little too easy…”
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“That's impossible!”
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The game cheats to try to win
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“The one that got away”
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The “pick the theme with the most number of neutral votes” theme
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The “pick the theme with the most negative score” theme
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The Sea
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Team
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Teamkilling
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Tech Trees
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Temperature
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Ten seconds
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Text-heavy
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The 80's
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The est Hero Ever!
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The Unknown
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Theatrics
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There is no spoon
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They attack from the shadows
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This is not a game
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Tiger Woods
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Time
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Time Paradox
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Time travel
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Trains
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Tracking
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Trading
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Tragedy
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Travel
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Tree falls in the woods
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Tripping
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Trust
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Turn Based Eating
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Twilight
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Underwater
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Universe
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Unlikely Video Game Genre Mixes
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Unpretentious Art Game
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uʍop ǝpısdn
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Vanishing
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Variable-ratio operant conditioning
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Velcro
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Velociraptors
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Velocity
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Vintage audio playback devices
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Violence has consequences
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Vote fishing
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Walkthrough Required
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War
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Water
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Weather
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Weaving
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When animals attack
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Wild West
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Win Conditions
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Words
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World Cup
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World end
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Wrestling
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Xyzzy
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You are your own worst enemy
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You don't play the main character
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You have to cheat to win this game
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Zero
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Zombies
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Zoo
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ZZZ
Oh my, that is quite the list! Anyways, see what you guys like and we'll go from there. When we got a good number of picks, I'll announce it the competition forum. Enjoy!
All platforming problems can be mostly solved here:
Just a heads up, in the next couple weeks I'll start up a competition thread for theme ideas. Then on the first weekend of June will be the start of the compo! Get your ideas brewing!
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The most fun competitions I've entered have been those based around a theme. I'd try to make time to enter it.
