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[Urthvas Williamson]

Haha, your game Tilebased looks a lot like mine!



Watch out, those wolves are badass!

[EmilMeiton]

I'm working on a game right now that I call sweeper. Reading this thread I realise how bland it sounds. What do you all think about the name "Take me home" or maybe "Swipe me home"?
The game is a puzzle game where you controll a character through a series of random generated puzzle maps.

Here's my devlog
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=34595.0

[Fugsnarf]

Sweeper is much better than either of those names. A quick Google search doesn't show that it's been taken, so I would consider keeping it. If you don't want to, then I would suggest avoiding pronouns. It sounds and looks very odd and unappealing.

[Spacew00t]

I need help naming my game, I made a list of names you can choose from (or suggest your own!)

Description:
Build your ship, hire crew, and voyage across the stars... only there's no fancy warp drives, wormholes, or faster than light travel. You're tasked with managing your ship on the generations long trip between each star system, keeping them happy, healthy, and under control! There'll be various hazards, missions, and resources to mine in proceduraly generated galaxies.

Screenshots
Note: The galaxies will not be so hidiously colored, they're just like that for debugging. each color represents a different spiral arm.

[tnr]

The Adventure of Hero Quest

Hero Quest is a professional hero, mainly because he happens to fill almost every heroic prophecy you can think of. Village destroyed by evil villains? Check. Mysterious marking on the back of hand? Check. Legendary weapon (the Axeblade) check.

It's sort of an action-platformer parody of games with a legendary hero.

[rek]

In My Opinion Here are
Things That Make It Easier
To Come Up With A Name For Your
Unnamed (Or Poorly Named) Game

Who: Tell us about the player character(s), including any names or back story you may have for them.

What: Tell us the game's genre, defining mechanics, and look/feel/experience.

Where: Tell us about the game's setting, the world it takes place in, and any names you may have for it.

When: Similar to Where, tell us about the game's setting in time – the past, the future, a lost age shrouded in mystery, the 1970s, etc.

Why: Tell us the player-character's goal, and what you hope the player feels in pursuing that goal.

Do

1. Be aware of the importance of a memorable and unique name. Games with generic names can be difficult to find online. Convoluted fantasy names are hard to remember. Names that sound like existing things are easily mistaken for them (lawsuit time!) or lost among search engine results.

2. Research. What are some words and names you like, and why do you like them? Is it the sound or shape of the word? Are there synonyms you can use to make your game's name stand out?

3. Take your time. If you're still in the early stages of development, a project name can be used as a place-holder for the final name.

Don't

1. Don't ask us to pick from a list of terrible names. You know they're terrible because you couldn't commit to one yourself, so you're here asking strangers on the internet to convince you they aren't terrible.

2. Don't mistake art style or genre for name components. It's needlessly limiting, and it's been done to death. Retro 8-Bit Pixelvania isn't unique, it's forgettable, and it doesn't communicate anything about the game other than the most superficial things.

3. Don't forget to follow up. If nobody replied to your initial post it's probably because there wasn't enough to go on.

[Sved]

@TheNineRings Sorry, but Hero Quest is also a board game I spent half of my childhood with.

[darkhog]

Rek, this is so wise post.

[AlienSync]

The Intergalactic Trashman or Intergalactic Trashman? The second one rolls off the tongue better.

[Homamo]

Hello!

This is my first post in this forum I'm hoping to get some help in naming the game I'm working on.

Game Description:
The game is a 3D third-person space-shooter with a cinematic experience.
The action takes place inside continuously transforming wormholes and dense nebulae, facing a myriad of different enemies infected with a nasty AI virus. The final fight will be against the virus which manifests itself as billions of atoms materializing in terrifying shapes.

Possible Names:
- Void Encounter
- Abstract Impact
- Void Destructor
- Behind Void
- Event-H

Open for any additional names.
Many thanks!

[Luciano]

could be :


Artificial Apocalypsis or something in that way

[MrBones]

Name:
Double Death

Description:
A squad based survival shooter with over the top customization and gameplay, all bundled in a retro comic book stylization.

Screenshot:
N/A at the moment.

[AdventureIslands]

Name: Tiny Guns

Description: Sunset Riders inspired, fast-paced Run and Gun game, where you control two bounty hunters on a quest to save the Wild West from bandit invasion. You jump, run and shoot your way through hordes of bandits to reach a difficult bandit leader at the end of each stage.

I originally wanted the name to be Gunparade, or Dashing Desperadoes, but what do you know, two games with those names already exist.

Screens:



Some logo designs:

[eyeliner]

Can anyone think of anything better that "Spellbound" or "I Dream of Witches"?

Your name "I Dream of Witches" is fine. I'd stick to it. It tells the story of the game, you can't get a lot better than that.

[karlozalb]

Name:
Double Death

Description:
A squad based survival shooter with over the top customization and gameplay, all bundled in a retro comic book stylization.

Screenshot:
N/A at the moment.

Cool name. Sounds like Jean Claude Van Damme 80's film. If the style is retro, I think that the name is perfect

[TheHermit]

My current project is called 'Travelogue', and is an exploration game where you wander around and stuff happens to you, sort of like Oregon Trail if it were more of an RPG. One gimmick based on this is that the game records everything that you run into on the roads into a journal that you can export at the end of the game.

[mattiasf]

My game's named Machinist-Fabrique.



It's a puzzle game where the Machinist visits a city/abandoned factory called Fabrique to get the machines working again. The player plays the Machinist and reprograms (actually uses a graphical programming language) machines to deliver orbs to goals.



It's a puzzle game and it's a teaching game that'll teach you about programming while having fun and being challenged.

Fabrique means "Factory" in french - I use it because I like the sound of it.

If this game works out I want to create more Machinist games where the Machinist programs other machines in different settings, so there could be a Machinist-Atlantis in the future.

See http://www.indiedb.com/games/machinist-fabrique for additional details and please let me know what you think about the name!

[team23]

Hey Folks, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Working title: Zombie Blocks

Summary:
Boxel/Voxel game set in a procedurally generated city.  Player explores the city looking for supplies to survive and weapons/arms to defend themselves from the zombies that have taken over the city.  Zombies attack the player in waves during the night, requiring the player to either fend them off, or attempt to evade them until dawn.  

Gameplay:
The player will be searching buildings to find items/weapons to assist in their survival.  During which time they will be combating/evading zombies during the day.  They will then need to find shelter as night falls and may fortify their shelter by crafting new items, or by modifying the shelter itself.  Finally at night they will fight off zombie waves that will pursue the player until the player is dead, or daylight arrives.  

What I want the player to feel:
Basically I wanted to make a world too big for the player to explore, and to make it evident to the player.  I want them to know that every building out there has stuff inside it, but also they realize that there's no way to clean out every building.  I'm hoping it will introduce a small sense of unease, as while the player has an idea about their surroundings, they're never quite sure.  

I want the game to be much more about modifying existing structures, and not as much about building your own.  And I want design to be functional, so enemies can break walls, dig into the earth, or scale buildings to get to the player.  

Words I'm currently using (Not required in the title, just what I'm using atm):
Dead - Obviously a strong "this game has zombies" nod
City/Metro - My programmer side saying "Just describe the game"

Screenshot of a small city chunk (Obviously not final):

[makehimanoffer]

Currently Working on a sort of much improved version of my newgrounds game jam game called XCVB

As such I named it simply: Super XCVB

XCVB refers to the controls needed to play it.

[cyrohzin]

My game's named Machinist-Fabrique.

Machinist-Fabrique could be pretty good. Using the french word for factory is clever, although it could be off putting because it does (to me at least) kind of sound like fabric. The interesting part here is that Machinist-Fabrique could double entendre (oh snap french) in that the factory creates the machinist (the player in this case), because it teaches them