Ahoy! I'm currently working on
One-Thousand Cuts (or stylized as 1000CUTS), a pixel-art one-hit-kill side-scroller about a 16-bit samurai torn between loyalty and honor. 1000CUTS is title I'm pretty happy with, HOWEVER, I'm putting out a separate demo build of the game based on numerous suggestions, and I'm struggling to come up with a sub-title that appropriately communicates "This is a demo"
The Top Contenders:
- One-Thousand Cuts: JOMAKU (Japanese for an opening act / monologue to "raise the curtain" on a kabuki play)
- One-Thousand Cuts: IAIDO (meaning "Drawing of the sword" it's the first thing you'd do when engaging an enemy with a katana)
- One-Thousand Cuts: HAJIME (meaning "begin!" shouted at the start of a kenjutsu match, which features heavily in the demo)
- One-Thousand Cuts: ZERO (like the number 0).
The primary goal of the demo title is to catch the eye, high click-through rate, all that. The description of the game is explicit that it's a free demo build and not the finished game, and will also likely contain the definition / explanation of the subtitle if we go with a Japanese option.
Thanks so much for your feedback and any other suggestions you might have!
PS - this is my first ever attempt at making a game, feel free to check out the current demo build
here.