Working on a new skating project (side scrolling infinite obstacles type deal). Need to come up with a name for this one. Any help would be greatly appreciated 
Some other possibly important data: heavy female skater focus, heavy late 80’s, early 90’s aesthetic in color palettes.
Totally Gnarly Dude!
No - thats the suggestion for the name, not about the video. 
The board style/shape is inconsistent with the popular shape/style of that era. There were straight boards around, but they were not as numerous/common as the other shapes. This shape was a fad but lasted about 10 solid years.
Are you planning for more board shapes/styles?
Sk8 only with the 8 sideways like an infinity symbol.
Yeah, I’m not going for that type of literal design. It’s still modern clothing, modern boards, but I wanted to incorporate those color palettes and designs into the modern aspect. I am not against actually putting in some retro gear, retro boards and skaters. I actually skated during that time period, late 80’s, early 90’s so I know these types of boards and designs pretty well I had an old Powell Peralta deck very similar in shape to this one. Would have been about 12 or 13 yrs old then.
I would like that except it’s just too close to the name “Skate” which is a really popular existing game series.
Where do you get the licenses for using the artwork from those old retro boards? I’d imagine it’s hard to track down the original artists.
I wouldn’t personally use any of the actual original artwork. Would end up creating vector designs in Illustrator based off of some of these palettes and geometric shapes. Forgot to mention disregard the hasty texture placeholder I slapped on the bottom of the skateboard in the video. That is a really cool existing design by or for Vision skateboards. Wouldn’t ever see the light of day in a commercially shipped product though.
Oddly enough another source of inspiration for illustrating designs of this period are the older Trapper Keeper folders for school. Not sure how many people here would remember those or know of them?
That’s good to hear! I was concerned when I saw you edit out the text overlay from the source image.
Yeah that was intentional too, to avoid extra discussions about using an existing commercial design when I am replacing it as placeholder once I start illustrating.
Shred the Patriarchy
Not a serious suggestion I guess. How inclusive/ exclusive do you want to be?
I have fond memories of that time period, as I also had a Powell Prealta board, the red one with the helmeted skull. (I think). My first was a hot pink Nash! OMG how loud those colors were back then!
Depending upon the core theme - skate park - which weren’t very common in those times, or pool skating, or street skating or ramp skating could lend to the name.
Drop In - is catchy and instantly recognizable to the core community you will be targeting.
JAMES ARNDT SKATEBOARD GAME 1993
Isn’t the standard naming convention in skating games to name it after a famous skater? Is there someone you can track down who you can lisence from?
If you do this it has to be Christian Hosoi the only man to give Hawk a run for his money back then - and who could fly higher than any other person on a board.
Hell yeah, definitely interested in a Unity skate game! Desktop or mobile? The skateboard looks cool so far in your video.
As far as naming it after a skater, there are a bunch of super cool female skaters out there you could look into, depending on how serious the game idea is.
Speaking of skating, I haven’t been on a skateboard since like 1987 (hah!) but I’m starting up again and just got my first new deck the other day. It’s made by “Silly Girl Skateboards”, a female-run deck company. Other good female-focused skate companies are Meow and Hoopla.
I am working on a PC version right now, but I see no reason it couldn’t be ported to mobile with a little UI and input adjustment. I don’t know how successful I would be at getting a skater to lend their name to my project, but hey who knows. I am leaning towards a one word name, maybe a trick or something. I played some of the older games like Skate or Die or 720 and always thought they had really cool, simple names. I am using a lot of reference of Britney Conrad, Lizzy Armanto, and others. Watching a lot of their televised runs to get an idea of their different styles, both in skating and a more realistic idea of how these skaters dress. Googling “Skater girl” was the biggest mistake. The fashion industry has an entirely non-realistic idea of what the style is. I’ve found it’s usually function and comfort over form for skaters who actually do this for a living.
I did a little update today showing the modeling progress so far for the starting character.
Just call is it something rad man … like Skate or die!!!
names :
Acid Drop
Skate or die
R.A.D
Cruz
Totally whale
concrete waves
GrinderGrrrlz Sk8 Party. It has a tough word…grinder…has girls growlz… grrrlz for further toughtalking, an alphanumeric pronunciation meme and a party.