First of all me and probably many others h8 the theme, and think that if voting was done again, it wouldn’t be reelected.<\/p>\n
Also, I think themes like these alienate contest participants from outside world even further. It is hard enough to explain to the “normal” people how you are going to spend weekend as it is, and now with this theme its even harder to communicate the idea behind it, I mean it sounds more or less ok when you read it on the internet but if I try to explain to someone that I’m doing a 48h game compo with theme being “It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this” I’d get beat up by cool kids, or even worse, fall into dialog which looks like this:<\/p>\n
“Take what?”<\/p>\n
“… What?”<\/p>\n
“You said its dangerous, and I should take… This something…?”<\/p>\n
“Oh, hah, no, its a theme for compo…”<\/p>\n
“Oh… Well, it doesn’t relate to me in any way and you will have none of my support, call me when you grow up”<\/p>\n
Well, I can bitch about theme whole day long, but in the end I think I’ll just not participate. Too bad, I had high hopes for 20th ld, it got screwed over by theme comprehensible by\u00a0 zelda fans only.<\/p>\n
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Of course, all may not be as black as it seems, and if an idea hits me I’ll get to work to finish it on time and eat my own words. But the only good idea I had so far is already being done by at least two guys (working as item seller).<\/p>","time":"April 30th, 2011 5:28 am","title":"The theme :\\"}