Contest Theme Suggestions

[Raz]

Post your suggestions for the next Level Designer contest, whether it be Last Legacy or Super Mario 63, here!
If it's a theme that would only work for one game or the other try to clarify. Also, please make sure you can actually do something out of your theme suggestion. Provide a few ways for your theme to work, like a good tileset for it, some gimmicks to make it fit the theme more, etc. If you have to pin it down to a really precise glitch, then it's way too specific. If you have no idea how you can make it, it's impossible for the average level designer.
Also, now that we have a brand new thread, try to check previous suggestions now that we don't have about 200 pages of suggestions.



Old Suggestions Topics
Super Mario 63

Last Legacy

[l.m]

All the themes that were used on LDCs in the past:

SM63

• Hot and Cold
• Bowser's New Castle
• Desert Oasis
• Halloween
• Unfinished Level
• Airship
• Ruined Treasure
• Garden
• Runouw.com
• Bridge Over Troubled Waters
• Galaxy
• 2012
• Alternate Dimension
• Beach
• Pure Platformer
• Earth and Sky
• Musical Moods
• Winter
• Freestyle
• Death
• All Things Mario
• Storytelling
• Cave
• Fire
• Science
• Jungle
• Forest
• Conflict
• Water
• Urban
• Grasslands
• Finale / The Ultimate Battle

LL

• Spooky
• Time Travel
• Snow with Mountains / Mountains with Snow
• Ruins
• Temple

[Charcoal]

Oh is this part of the new rearrangement? Cool.
Alright umm...how about cubism? Like Picasso. Could that work in SM63 and LL?

[l.m]

Also double post (EDIT: oh wait thanks Ninja Veso) but I gave a quick look at the old Contest Theme Suggestions thread and I got some themes (Note: It doesn't include the LDC themes) (Also Note: It's in Google Docs so you can Edit it and help me)

Here's the list

[1018peter]

How about "Natural Disasters"?

Making a level involving one of the many natural disasters, or even two.

For example, I can make a level about a foreign land facing a massive flood and Mario has to save them somehow. Or, I can make a level about Mario having to fight against hurricanes and landslides to reach the top of a mountain.

[Harmless]

How about an Artificial theme of sorts? Stuff that's not natural, like maybe man-made materials or whatnot?

[l.m]

Natural Disasters could be good; just not sure about the hurricane part.

Artificial is hard to imagine something concrete, unless you mean stuff like Plastic Beach, in which case it's a little bit too strict.

[Charcoal]

Natural Disasters could be good; just not sure about the hurricane part.

Did we have that one before? I can't quite remember.

[~MP3 Amplifier~]

Night time or darkness theme maybe? Unless that's too much like Space.

[Doram]

I'm sure a number of these have already been suggested, but I'm running down everything I can think of right now...

SM63 Only

• Hat Trick (Must use the Cap Powerups)
• Stars and Stripes (Must use lots of either Red Coins or Silver Stars - no plain Shine sprites)
• Lone Star (No Red Coins or Silver Stars)
• Flooded (Must use FLUDD)

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LL Only

• "Hands Free" or "Kick Boxing" (Only weapon allowed is Handcuffs)
• "Shot Put" or "Thrown" (Only allowed weapon is thrown - fireball, axe, or ring)
• "Duel" or "Sword Fight" (Only allowed weapon is swords)
• "Upside Down" "Topsy Turvy" or simply "Gravity" (Whole level must be gravity altered)
• "Colorful" or "Rainbow" or "Monochrome" (Whole level must have color modification of some sort - either multiple colors or one specified color)
• "Blind" or "Spotlight" (Must use the Darkness trigger at 100% for the whole level)
• "Slo-mo" or "Lag" (Must use Time Control trigger)
• "It Takes a Village" or "Villager" or "Townie" (Must have some part of the level set in a village/town with multiple NPCs)
• "Grinding" (Finishing the level must be by collecting multiple drops from enemies, or gathering specified number of coins or similar mechanic)

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Both

• All or Nothing (either uses all available powerups or none at all)
• Bottomless Pit (whole or most of level needs to be platforms over empty space)
• Mining (Finishing the level by breaking through the ground - breakable blocks for SM63 or lots of Delta for LL)
• Vertical (Self explanatory)
• Tragedy (Unwinnable level, but asks that you die in a specific way)
• Long Haul (All entries must be at least 999 in one direction)
• At Death's Door (Must play level with little to no life and/or no health powerups)
• Bouncy House (Must have some mechanic in it for bouncing the player along for some part of the level - either platforms or bouncing off of enemies)
• Race (Level must played under some kind of time constraint - either an actual timer, or forced movement/autoscroll)
• Moving blocks (Level must be made of only moving blocks)
• Switch (Finishing the level must require hitting a switch of some kind)
• Underwater (Whole level must be under water)

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