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 Idea: Difficult decisions
Games often ask us to make hard and meaningful choices. Let's collect the moments in gaming which had us put down the controller and think hard about what's the right course of action.
Theme idea: (Good) Jokes
Simple, yet easily found almost everywhere - jokes in games. Be it obscure references, awkward ones or something else - share the jokes you can find with us!
Theme idea: Alone.
Something on its own in a much larger setting - a player, a rock, a tower, whatever.
Minigames
Screenshots from a minigame in a game you like and play.
Like, for example, Sphere Break in final-fantasy-10-2
Theme: Gaming Tatoos, or How do you rep gaming IRL?
Show us how gaming shows up when you are not in front of the screen!
Theme: Out of Doors (IRL)
Show us your epic gaming moment (preferably an outdoor scene), that happens while you yourself and your gaming rig (of small or large proportions) are also out of doors!
frightening Allies.
Show the ally that makes you scared; even you know she/he is on your side.
Theme idea: Out of bounds
Anything cool or interesting that's placed outside the bonds of a map, or anything that requires you to go out of the bounds to see close or in better detail.
Theme idea: Is this for ants?
Anything that's way smaller than necessary, clearly made for Mr Chang.
Theme idea: From father to son
Screenshots of a younger generation taking on the roles of their elders
Show us your favourite exploit in the form of a screenshot!
Theme idea: The Great Outdoors
Submit a screenshot of an outdoor scene - anything that isn't indoors!
From the TimmyJimtionary: "outdoors, adverb: anything that isn't indoors" (credit)
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Theme idea: Relaxing
Any location, scene or environment you felt was quiet, relaxing or enjoyable for your senses.
Theme idea: Machines of War
Show us your weaponized vehicles made to smash, burn, and otherwise destroy your opponents' stuff.
Theme idea: Aerials
Screenshots taken from midair or from flying vehicles.
Theme Idea: Preinstalled Games
You've just bought a new gaming device, or fresh installed your operating system. What games or demos were preinstalled? Which ones do you remember fondly (or not so fondly?)
Theme: Cute and Cuddly
Any animal/creature really cute that made you say "Awww!"
Theme idea: A still more glorious dawn awaits
Show your coolest sunrise/dawn screenshots.
Theme: Sheer Dominance
Something where you dominated. Maybe you owned the enemy team with your 67-3 K/D ratio, beat someone's personal best record by an insane amount of time/points, or whatever you feel you were dominant at!
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Theme: Supernatural & Undead
Some paranormal/supernatural/undead thing, like ghosts, zombies, ghouls, demons, or something "attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature." (according to Google's definition).
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Theme idea: Card battles
Show us a cool screen from card game battle.
Theme idea: Teeny Tiny
Screenshots of small or tiny things
A mountable creature/animal such as a horse, dragon, or similar.
Related: Screenshot of the Week #56 - Sweet Rides, Screenshot of the Week #58 - Pets
An image showcasing a collection of gold, gemstones, trophies, or anything particularly valuable.
Capture a moment with characters playing musical instruments and/or dancing (the more the merrier).
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Theme idea: …oh.
The disappointment you feel after getting hyped for something that turned out to be a dud.
Theme idea: Environmental storytelling joke
For screenshots of funny visual gags left by the developers in the environment
Theme idea: Colored Squares
Submissions must come from pixel-graphic games (8-bit and 16-bit).
Theme idea: Exclusive
Share your favorite Mario, Halo, Ratchet & Clank, or any number of console-exclusive characters with some that may not know them!
Games must be exclusive to a single company's consoles, for example only on Sony PS3 and PS4. Also acceptable are titles getting a later PC release, such as The Master Chief Collection.
Theme idea: Spells for Real
Which in-game ability/spell you wish you had in real life?
