I’m currently creating a god game where the player is put in the role of a god who starts the game with their empty universe and the idea of the game is to create Galaxies, Solar Systems,Planets and you can manage each respectively with the aim of the game being to create life and guide it through its journey of evolution and civilization. You will take your life forms from their early cell stage right through to becoming intelligent space fairing beings and perhaps even further?.
I’m still quite early on with the games concept and have been trhowing a few names for it around and just wanted some feedback from you guys on some names. Being that the games main focus is on creation and god like activity the title needs to be something appropriate to this, I have a few latin words for creation/creator that are as follows:
Genitor - Latin word meaning: Ancestor, Creator, Father - Again Nice ring to it but not sure if the father/creator is about a humans or being father because of the “Ancestor” part.
Principium - Latin word meaning: “that which is first” or “an origin/beginning” - This one has less to do with actual creators or gods but has the nicest ring to it I think.
Godan - The Latin word for where “God” originated from - To close to Peter Molyneux’s “Godus” for me.
Deus - This was what the christian god was commonly refered to in Latin - Again though, Deus Ex…
Any feedback or suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated.
lemme get this straight. The game is just an idea atm? why are you so concerned with the name? it should be up there in the ‘of least concern’ category. The game idea itself sounds like it would be a lot of work. Enough that it probably wont even get finished. Hard to know what the exact scope you have in mind is… maybe im reading too far into it.
Give it an internal name… “godmode”, then finish the game, or get it 70% complete, then worry about the trivial subject of its name.
Going with other languages is definitely a good way to get a cool name easily. Maybe just put god on google translate and find something you like. If you want to go with japanese I recommend romaji.me because translation services tend to not give romaji.
Just remember to do 1 word at a time because you never know when having multiple words will alter the grammar. Some services try to force some kind of grammar when there’s more than 1 word so you don’t get a literal translation of each word.
Wow…first comment, Patronize much? This is exactly whats wrong with this community everyone is always condescending to each other, Who are you to tell me this project wont get finished? have you read my Game design doc? no so I would appreciate if you could stick to the subject topic. I posted this in the general discussion as I wanted some feedback on the names I was going with. Whether my project was viable or not was not the question. These sort of sarky replies are exactly what puts me off engaging in this community.
Name of your game is least thing you need to be concerned about. You have a Game Design Document? Good! You should’ve said that in the first place because 90% of people ask for a useless feedback like “Name of the project” and in the end don’t get the job done. Community have seen hundreds of people who don’t have a GDD, so people just assumed you don’t have overall idea.
People are right though. Give your project some sort of alias for now while you get basic design and mechanics down.
I give up…I understand and appreciate what you are saying, But! All I asked for was feedback on these names i didn’t ask when I should be naming it or to be spoken to as if i have no experience in game design. I have so few post in the community because its always like this. I thank you Elmar because you didn’t feel the need to subtly insult me in your replies.
Cosmocrator. Evolver. Germination. Space Seed. Crevolver. Genesist. Pay no mind to those who doubt your abilities. It will only get in your way… “You will never be a famous artist”…well maybe that ain’t the frikkin’ goal. Maybe the goal is to do art for it’s own sake.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Wait until you finish your game and try to get it on the market. What people say will make you long for the good old days of being trolled by JamesLee. Better get used to it or, as you say, “give up” completely.
We are sticking to the topic. We are providing feedback on choosing a name. Our feedback is that you’re doing it too early.
Out of those four names though, the only one worth considering is “Principium”. The last two are not original enough and the first one could very easily be altered to “genital” (like BoredMormon was hinting at).
Agreed. I always have a name for my projects since I was a toddler. Works great for me. I have a too huge catalog of imagery and techniques in my head and a good name nails down the section of the catalog to browse for inspiration.
If you want to impress the community put up a prototype. An idea and a GDD mean nothing.
You’ve proposed a scope so big that no one who has yet tried it has succeeded. And some big names have tried. So forgive us for being a little skeptical.
The general tone of the advice, use a working title until you are close to market, is sound.