To make is easier to track what themes have been suggested, this will be a central location for proposing themes for future Screenshot of the Week contests.
Please limit answers to one theme per answer to allow for voting on individual themes. For submission, please have a short summary like "Glitches and bugs", followed by a small summary.
Theme: Epic Fail
Show us your face-palming, gut wrenching, embarrassing epic moments of failure!
Used in SOTW 66:
Theme idea: Moments before Disaster
That split second before Murphy's law kicks in.
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Theme idea: Secrets / Easter Eggs
Show off your favorite things in games that reference other things!
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Theme idea: Residence.
Whether it be a humble abode, intimidating castle, ivory tower, or fortress of solitude: it's time to show off your hours of work.
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Theme idea: 90s (1990-1999) - No HD Remasters
Get retro. Only 90's kids will remember these.
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Theme idea: Classic.
All submissions must come from a game 10 years old or older.
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Theme Idea: Hero Pose
It could be you or an NPC, show a character striking a cool pose for the camera!
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Theme Idea: Living with Nature
Screenshots of you working with nature/the environment, from buildings to befriending animals to using nature to defeat your foe
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Theme idea: Victory.
Win first place? Finish that impossible level? Conquer the world? Triumph and success, no matter how small, can be quite satisfying. Show off your victories.
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Theme idea: Love Declaration. (for a Valentine's Day week?)
Either between characters or from a character to an inanimate object/concept, either funny or sad, there's a lot of ways one could declare their love.
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Theme idea: Glitches and Bugs
Any weird/fun glitches or bugs that you experience while playing.
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Theme idea: Water scenes.
On the water, under water, ocean views. Scenes with water as a major part of the composition.
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Theme idea: Loading Screens.
Everyone hates to have loading screens, but some are quite interesting or hilarious. Show us the best you've found.
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Theme idea: Winter.
Winter is coming! Show us your frigid adventure, or cozy home you are holing up in to wait it out.
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Theme idea: Halloween.
Ghosts, pumpkins, monsters, demons, witches, and spooky stuff. Whatever your traditions are, show off something that represents Halloween.
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Theme idea: Achievements!
Show off your hard work in a game.
Your promotion in a competitive game. You standing victorious over that one Boss. You dinging to max-level.
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Theme idea: Space Exploration.
Take us to where no person has gone before. What are you coolest finds out in space?
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Theme idea: Explosions
Make something go boom! The bigger, the better.
Theme idea: Robots/Synths/AIs
Show your appreciation for your robot overlords.
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Theme idea: Destruction!
Images of the highest level of carnage, debris, or otherwise broken and explodey stuff.
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Theme idea: RNG!
Do the RNGods favor you? Show us your (un)luckiest moments.
That ultra rare drop you were lucky to get. Absurd moments caused by the world generator. You dying to that rare triple crit by the basic enemy.
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Theme idea: Night
What makes you afraid of the dark? Does something lurk in the shadows?
Is it a peaceful, starry night? Does the night sky shimmer with dancing lights?
Scenes taken at night.
Theme idea: Photorealism
Screenshots that are impossible to distinguish from IRL photographs.
Recurring Theme Idea: Game of the Year
Show off something from your favorite game from the past year. This could be an annual theme that happens every December or January, maybe coinciding with the Winterbash?
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Theme idea: Inventory
Immense stacks of potions, a pet, a fancy hat, trivial trinkets, mountains of gold, that one weapon-that-will-be-extremely-useful-in-that-very-particular-situation: show us what you got!
Theme Featured in: Screenshot of the Week #74 - Inventory
Theme idea: Scenery
For sharing all the picturesque, hidden, or otherwise interesting locations or objects.
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Theme idea: Giant monsters.
I already have a good one for this category, I want to share it. ;)
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Theme Idea: Pets
Whether it's something traditional, like a dog or cat, or fantastical, like a chocobo or tiny dragon.
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Theme idea: Christmas
Just thinking ahead :)
Also: snowy landscapes, guiding stars, comfy carols, pagan ceremonies, useless gifts, trees with lights in them, krampuses, turońs, zwarte pieten, and other figures that perpetuate misopedic, sexist, and racist traditions. Merry Christmas!
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Theme idea: Into the storm!
Rain, snow, sand, flower petals, arrows, or anything at all that could be considered a storm worthy to remember.
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