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[Bad Sector]

I have several names, but the only one i used to make games under so far is Slashstone, which is made of Slash and Stone. Slash comes from Slashdot and Stone is random (basically i was living in a very old house with some sort of a garden at that point, so stones were something common for me). Unfortunatelly Touchstone uses a logo i would like to use (a slashed stone or something - basically a slashed circle), which i didn't knew when i registered that name. A year later i discovered that the name wasn't easy to pronounce correctly (most people heard slashtone), something i also f*d up with another -lost- name i made (Hourgames, which sounded like Ourgames).

These days i came up with a new name, Runtime Terror, which is the coolest one and i've just registered it for releasing my FPS game under this label (i'll keep Slashstone around for webgames and my email..). The story behind it is that i was playing Doom 3 and at some point the game crashed and i've got a message about a 'Runtime Error' and that was a 'lamp above the head' point. I Googled for Runtime Terror, found nothing, the domain was available, so i decided to use it as a label for my downloadable games :-).

[Hempuli‽]

Reactor Products - err, I don't know totally. Back then there were a huge amount of finnish game makers who used clickteam products to create (very horrible) games. I dreamed that I'd like to be like them someday. Every of them had a very epic company name, like Blue Storm Productions, and I came with my own. I should really change it, even my homepage looks nothing like the name says :D

[mjau]

Not really a company name, but I'm currently using mjau panda (.com) for my small crappy games.  Website is a tad unfinished at the moment though.  Anyway, I wanted it to be just mjau, but of course being a 4-letter common word (in norwegian) all of them are taken.

I've no idea where mjau comes from.  I just like the sound of the word, I guess.  It's also the sound cats make, and those are kinda nice despite making me sneeze and such.  It's also related to the Mjaumjau comic strip by jason.  I'm unable to find a link apparently, but here's a drawing in his style (actually more of a clone, but eh):



Panda comes from this little guy which I drew on a whim one day on a web imageboard created by some guys as an entry for some previous Ludum Dare (#7 or 8, I think?).  This first drawing evolved into a platform mockup animation collab with multiple mostly bloody outcomes for some reason (and a couple nsfw ones , oh the wonders of anonymous image posting on the web), but he's a peaceful guy really.  Maybe making a platform game with him some day.



I've also got weretree.com, mostly used for e-mail and file storage.  You know a joke's gone to far when you register a domain named after it.

If I ever do some bigger games, they might get released under Rastersplit Games.  I like the sound of it, and rastersplits are one of the reasons I really got into coding back on the C64, because it made me realize what it was possible to do with assembly.  Without that I might not be coding today.

[Marmaduke Slam]

Of course, I haven't finished anything yet, but something along the lines of "Mech-Raptors Inc." or "Deathbear Corpseblood Ltd." would be suitable.

[Corpus]

I don't have any games finished to use a company name on, but I own hirsute-soft.com.

I don't know if I like that name any more, though. It might be shitty. I can never tell, with names I've thought up.

Anyway, it's Hirsute because, um, it's a cool word. Also, I don't have a beard, but I want to trick people on the internet into thinking that I do.

[policedanceclub]

Also, I don't have a beard, but I want to trick people on the internet into thinking that I do.

Cheeky.

[fish]

The Polytron brand started way back when the corporation introduced it's first computer, which was of course the only of it's kind with multiple trons, hence the polytron.

[Xion]

multitple

[Don Andy]

I'm going by the rather cheesy name of Tophat Games although it's not (as it may first seem) a silly play on the gentlemen meme popular with the indie community.

Tophats have established as my general sign of identification in my old community, so I just went with that. The whole Tophat thing with the indie community was more of a coincidence.

And technically we're nothing close to a company, yet, but I'm working on that :D

[dmoonfire]

I've used "Moonfire Games" since I started really focusing on playing with games (mostly C# libraries, but getting into the actual games writing thing now). It comes from a silly place, my last name. My wife wants to use "Moonfire Designs" for her graphic design business if she ever creates it, but when you got a last name like Moonfire, might as well roll with it, right?

[muku]

Many many years ago when I was still young and naive () I put out a free top-down stealth shooter together with my brother under the completely imaginary company name of Dohsoft. You do the etymology

[GP Lackey]

The Polytron brand started way back when the coporation introduced it's first computer, which was of course the only of it's kind with multitple trons, hence the polytron.

NONSENSE.

[fish]

the polytron corporation has a wide range of varied products.

[Golds]

PLEASE BEWARE OF THE LASERS
OR THEY WILL KILL YOU DEAD.


But seriously, I actually used a random codename generator.  I guess I picked the name that I probably would have thought was coolest when I was 15.

Since then, I thought up the name "Potential Robot", but don't know what to use it for.

[handCraftedRadio]

Stop it Golds, stop scaring people with your realistic pictures of heavenly laser beams scorching the earth.