SHINAN'S PROFILE

There are a bunch of ways to name a project. It can be named after something in the game, like a main character or a world or something else that is very important. If you don't think a name name alone is enough you can also add that it's a story of some sort. Such as having Chronicle, Tale, Adventure, Legend or any other descriptive word that says "this is a story".

Sometimes it's also possible to use a phrase that is used in the game. In movies there's always a good moment when the title is used in the movie itself (see "Snakes on a Plane" or "Law Abiding Citizen" or even "Hot Tub Time Machine"). It can also be more of a concept thing or describe some kind of action that happens in the movie. "Escape from Zombie Hotel" for example is one of those concept descriptions (though I guess it's also a story + name if there's a hotel called Zombie Hotel in the game and the word "Escape" works like Chronicle or Tale).

Another kind of concept thing is taking a profession of a character or of someone important to the game. Examples are stuff like Mage, Hero or Assassin but even seemingly mundane things can be useful like Carpenter, Dentist or Taxi Driver.

Usually a final title can be the very last thing in a game. While working on it you can have numerous working titles some of which may even stuck so much that you'll use some variation of them in the final name. "Shinan's Awesome Untitled Cyberpunk Project Number 56" can be turned into a game called "#56" and there can be a very obscure reference to the number 56 in the game or perhaps it doesn't have any major significance at all.

A couple of ideas on how to title stuff.
EDIT:
Oh yeah I completely forgot about the quote thing. There's usually verses or poetry or something that can sum up a game in a very arty way. So taking a couple of words from a bible quote or from a song lyric or similar thing can also be very useful. (and double points if a character says those words during the story)

Also because RPG Maker 2003 is NOT public domain, and we don't want to have all us old schoolers out of this event!

Well the tool used doesn't have to be public domain. You can create a weird art-thing using Photoshop and public domain images. Photoshop isn't public domain but the resulting image could still be released to the public domain if the person making it wanted it to.

Yeah I did have EpiQuest on my list but I noticed it didn't have a download when I wrote the thing (though shortly afterwards the new EpiQuest download was accepted). If I make one for next month I'll just have to throw it in there.

On the quotes and reviews I really like adding those. So I'm wondering if it might be better to do monthly roundups a bit after the month has passed. So that games released on the 30th of a given month would have some time to get a bit of stuff in the way of quotables :)

Of course it's always good if people use their blogs for release info too!

Perhaps the One Night series will follow the Resident Evil series. With 4 being a complete reinvention. (I read the Post your dead Projects thread and noticed that there was a One Night 1.5 that turned into One Night 2. There was a Resident Evil 1.5 that turned into 2 too :D These series have too many similarities to pass up)

I think one way could be to track when a game was marked as "completed" and all reviews made before that gets its own section (perhaps only separated by a slightly largers space). Making it clear which reviews were written after a game was marked as complete and which were written before. (There's already fairly obvious dates on game reviews so sometimes it's possible to tell what was reviewed based on the date. A system like this would automate it)