[POLL] GAME TITLES

Well not really all video games, but yeah, there are quite some with demons that side with the good ones.


I don't know much about the "background" story, but I voted for Mashetani Liberation because that sounds best and would appeal to me the most of I read it as a game title.

Actually almost all of videogames if you get a little broader on what counts as a "demon"

(rydia suddenly became a lot more frightening)

I think Mashetani Liberation sounds quice nice.
As for naming, I generally name my stuff based on the last thing I ate or something like that. LOL

author=alterego
Why not just "Demon liberation" or "Day of Liberation"? Heck, why not just "Liberation"? Is it really that important to make the title of your game sound all obscure and stuff? Will at least the Swahili language be prominent in the game or something? And if so, why not just "Mashetani *insert-swahili-word-for-liberation-here"? and avoid mixing languages.

I don't know, it's cool if your game has a mythos and everything, but unless it's very interesting, I'd rather understand what I'm reading.

I guess it doesn't matter much for RPG Maker games, but usually you'd want your game to be found via Google and that only works well with unique names.
Finding a game named liberation might be quite hard.

When John Lennon wrote "Imagine" he had intended to call it "Can You Imagine". I agree with the statement that just "Liberation" would be fine. The title of any work of art should never be about "how easily people can find it". That puts an unfair limitation on your creativity. If you doubt this, try Googling Imagine. You'll find that John Lennon's song comes right up, and the word "imagine" has numerous other uses.

If you're worried about Google searches, why don't you try employing some SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Your first step would be to have Google's (and other search engines) spiders, as they're called, "crawl" your page leading to your game. This is done by submitting your website to search engines (search "submit my website" in every search engine you know). The next step is to submit your website to banner exchanges (you'll need a banner graphic...check the exchange rules to see what size you need). You will need keywords that tie to your game. It is doubtful that anyone other than us will be looking for your game. It's important to make it look attractive to people who otherwise have no interest. Point is, nobody is going to be looking for specifically the title you choose unless you're spending thousands of dollars in advertisement, so your contention that a simple title would make it hard to find is a rather weak one. No, on the contrary, most people are going to find your game by STUMBLING on it. As a matter of fact, this is how I found the RPG Maker community and even started with RPG Maker 2003, and now, thanks to you posting, I know about your game, and you'll be interested to know that in both cases, I didn't use the terms RPG or Maker in my searches, nor did I use Mashitani, or Liberation to find this thread. I just clicked on a thread that interested me.

SEO is your absolute sure way of making sure it is found. The search engines you submit your download and description site to, after about a week, will put your site on the first page (after high priority submissions, i.e. those that actually pay for preference, are out of the way. It usually takes about a week before non-paying customers see their link on the top page).

In closing, feel free to choose the title you like the most. I like "Liberation". That's my "other" recommendation. In the end, what's really going to matter is how many people it attracts, not how many people are looking.

author=LockeZ

author=RedMask
Mashetani Liberation vs The Land of Mwanga

The former gives me the impression that the game is about action and battle. The latter gives me the impression that it's about exploration and discovery.

So, I'd say to pick whichever one fits your game's genre better. I don't know enough about your gameplay to tell you that.

With the original list of titles it was easier to pick one without knowing much about the game, because they were all similar. With these two it's basically up to you to decide if the game is more about the liberation or the land.

Maybe if we knew more about what the game was about. To be honest, "Land of Mwanga" doesn't put me in mind of demons or liberation, and I thought that was what the post said the game was going to revolve around.