He Watches

Started by WHAM, Fri 17/06/2011 22:03:09

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WHAM

"Dark" and "Darkness" are both way too overused words in game names, so I made a conscious effort to avoid them. Though now that I've gotten some feedback, both on and off the forums, "The Rushdie Mansion" has begun to seem less and less like a good name.

I shall revert back to "project: mansiongame" and keep working to come up with a final name by the time I release the demo.

At this time the potential names I have in mind are:
"The Rushdie Mansion"
"Rushdie"
"Absolution"
"Seeker of justice"
"Justice"
"Punishment"
"Echoes"
"He watches"
"The Dark mansion on a Dark hill in a Dark forest Quest "

Feel free to voice opinions!


EDIT: Also: Thanks for the kind words, Mark Borg! Its always nice to hear people have noticed the evolution of my art from the days of yore. The game will feature a darkness setting, which can be adjusted at the start of the game, so the game should be playable with different monitor settings without issue.
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arj0n

#41
"The Urbex Mystery"
"The Adventure of the Solitary Traveler"
"The Mystery of the Empty Mansion"
"Missing Without a Trace" / "Without a Trace"

WHAM

Drat! Without a trace sounded good to me, and fit the theme of the game, but its been used elsewhere quite recently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Without_a_Trace
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arj0n

#43
Mystery Mansion: Traceless
What Lurks Around the Corner
Beyond Fear
Sinister Soul
Faces of Fear
Fiendish Fear
Ominous Omen
Foreshadow
Malign Mansion
Minatory Mansion / Minacious Mansion
The Vicious Circle

CaptainD

 

WHAM

I'll take all suggestions and compile a list of the best ones later, which I will go through in the coming weeks. Thanks for all the suggestions so far, keep 'em coming!

It's always good to hear what sort of ideas others come up with.  ;)
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vertigoaddict

How about...

"The abscense of light"

Say it a couple of times and after a while it actually sounds pretty cool.

(My bro's name is Rushdee so that title felt weird to me simply for that reason  :P).

cat

I think naming the game after the mansion is a reasonable thing, but I don't like the name Rushdie for a mansion. That sounds badly made up.

WHAM

Rushdie was the surname of some English lord from way back when, I simply took a historically accurate name and had him build a fictional mansion. =)
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cat

Wait, the name of the guy was really Rushdie?  :o

NickyNyce

#50
Here's a few names to maybe give you some inspiration, considering the light will help you stay alive, I rolled with it.....

Light source
Moonlight mansion
Lovers light
The last light
Last Night
Blacklight
Pitch black
Shades of darkness
Days End
The Dying light

WHAM

Quote from: cat on Wed 27/07/2011 14:08:29
Wait, the name of the guy was really Rushdie?  :o

Hmmm... I can't seem to find the wikipedia article anymore. Maybe I was dreaming? What the...
Maybe I should just pick a different name after all, something more inherently English.

Thanks for the ideas NickyNyce!

EDIT: Cat, I think you may have gotten me here. After shuffling the internet for a while, it seems I was tired when I came up with the name and in googling occultist stuff along with english names, I encountered the name "Rushdie" in the context of some satanic verses, and somehow made a mental connection there.

Either that or I am going mad! Well, now I have to change the mansion name anyway, so there...
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WHAM

I think I have enough ideas for the name now, by the way. Will do some combinations on the ideas I have received and create something out of them. I think I have few coming up now...

EDIT: Yeah, the mansion was renamed into "Baddeley Mansion" after an actual historically accurate family.
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Snarky

Quote from: Snake on Tue 26/07/2011 23:52:49
Quote from: Dualnames on Tue 26/07/2011 22:26:21
Quote from: WHAM on Tue 26/07/2011 12:11:00
I finally, after much deliberation, decided on a final name for the game: "The Rushdie Mansion"
The demo is very much in the works, am hoping to release it next month!

Don't take this the wrong way, cause you know how much I respect your work and how much I'm looking forward to this game, but Rushdie Mansion is really a bad name for this game. It strikes me a bit wrong, kind of putting me off from this greatly enchanting project of yours. Just a thought I think I should mention now, cause I should.
Yeah, just name it House of Darkness, Darkhouse, TROICA or The Legend of Leitor's Edge :P

On a serious note, I like the name. It says that it won't take the house too long to kill you, or at least that's how I take it.

Sounds like a game where you go on a visit to Salman Rushdie. At his mansion, which he apparently has.

Creed Malay

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Quote from: WHAM on Wed 27/07/2011 15:40:42
Cat, I think you may have gotten me here. After shuffling the internet for a while, it seems I was tired when I came up with the name and in googling occultist stuff along with english names, I encountered the name "Rushdie" in the context of some satanic verses, and somehow made a mental connection there.

Either that or I am going mad! Well, now I have to change the mansion name anyway, so there...

Yep, I'm guessing you were reading about Salman Rushdie, who wrote a novel called The Satanic Verses. Not an occultist, as far as I know. And he's British, but of Indian descent, I don't think Rushdie is an "old" British name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses

I don't want to start dissing on your new name choice, but Badderly sounds a bit too evocative of "badguy" to me, making it all sound a bit cartoonish.. quite possibly just me though.

The game is looking ace though, really looking forward to playing it. I love a good atmospheric haunted house game. :D

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vertigoaddict

Looking up the occults for name inspirations? I'm surprised you didn't consider Crowley...but then again that's almost obvious.

Tabata

I like the graphic style and think, that you are on the right way for another cool game.
Keep up the good work!  :D


btw. suggestions for the games name:
Dark Mansion
or
Dark³
... in relation to one of your own thoughts about a name with 3 times Dark in it  ;)

WHAM

@vertigoaddict: Precisely: I try to keep things a little cryptic and try to mix fact and fiction in a way that would allow the more inquisitive player to find reality-based links, while still keeping them on their toes about what it all means.

We'll see how it goes, and you should get a little more information once I get the demo released (was scripting it when I decided to check the forums again)

@Tabata: Good to hear you like what you see! Thanks for the awesome name suggestions, especially the latter one, but I think "He Watches" is mysterious enough to keep for now at least.  ;)
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mkennedy

If your going with names of occultists you could call it "Crowley Manor"

Anian

Arcane manor or Lucent scowl or something.
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