By combining Match 3 and Snake into one game, I think I failed the theme because the result is a fairly compatible game.

I'm not sure I'm excited to play what people have made, unless they're disregarded the theme to some degree the games will be, by definition, flawed, janky and unfun.

Scoring for Theme in this jam will be incredibly difficult to read as well. Did I get a high score in Theme because I took 2 seemingly incompatible genres and made them compatible, or did I score low because I succeeded in combining the two? How will people score success in this theme?

Knowing the motives for how people vote in Ludum Dare for 'Mood' and 'Humour' has always been hard to figure out, with Humour being subjective, and Mood been ill-defined. Now for LD 41 'Theme' will also fit into that category too.

Scoring isn't my only issue with this theme, I'm also worried about new Jammers being turned off by it. It's hard enough to make a game with one genre in 48 or 72 hours, let alone two genres that are fundamentally incompatible. So many people wanting to have a go, only to be put off by one of the hardest to fathom themes in Ludum Dare history.

We'll see next week if my fears are unfounded or not, but it seems to me that this theme was not a good idea at all.