#using sitcom and series quotes actually help me getting ocs characters

[luukka]

Konomaë: You IDIOT !

Satoru: I'm sure you're right, but why ?

[tumblunni]

Trying to think up names for my stories at last, cos it gets awkward to talk about them. Well, they have like their tag codenames but that’s dumb :P So umm... IDEAS! Tell me if any of these sound good or bad or if you have any better suggestions. You can find more info and art for all the ideas using the tag name thingies here.

Better names for “Changeling Sim”: ....Changeling Sim could actually work, since it was inspired by the game series Princess Maker and Monster Rancher which both have names that sound like someone’s placeholder description XD But I kinda wanna keep the lame descriptive name as a last resort, yknow? Alternative equally self explanatory but a lil more catchy suggestion: Fae Builder? .... Leprechaun Artitecht? XD

Better names for “Zombie Sim Thing”: Give Up The Ghost Dead To The World Better Off Dead Cradle To Grave One Foot In The Grave (except that was an old sitcom in my country and the copyright is probably still running...) (and its a shame the protagonist is a mum otherwise i could have used Dead Beat Dad...) (anyway i dunno why but i feel like it should be one of those games with an idiom or saying or quote for a title. but not something pretentious, more of a pun. puns are good.)

Better names for “Witch Mansion Game”: Lost Abode (....which is just another self explanatory awful name. dammit.) Apprentice Quest (.....MY IDEAS ARE SOMEHOW GETTING MORE WORSE) Witchery Widdershins (...IM JUST POINTING AT COOL WORDS NOW) Something to do with ‘fork in the road’, or ‘branching paths’? The big point of the story is finding out the truth of your past and having a lot of choices. Puzzling Spire... Paradox Spire... Labyrinth Spire, Tenebrous Spire... I mean that’s... equally as self-explanatory, but at least its not quite as boring a way to say a descriptive thing.

Better names for “Cathedral Tower Defense”: Could maybe just be the name of the cathedral town that the game revolves around? if I can think of a cool name for it. [Something] Abbey is a catchy title, like how Downton Abbey was a sitcom or something... Kind of an over the top badass idea: Hand Of God Cos.. yknow... literally you are a priestess, defending the church as one woman against an army, using only a bow and arrow. But could also fit well with the game’s more cute and funny moments cos it abbreviates to HoG! XD Or maybe a title that’s named after the main character? [Something] Amity, Amity’s [Something], Amity of [Something] Abbey...??? I dunno, I just feel like since the protagonist is a huge badass and the focus is on singlehandedly defending, rescuing, rebuilding and befriending a town of loveable characters, the name has to be something kinda tough n cool. Usually my name ideas are just boring descriptiveness or KH style word salad but that wouldnt fit here...

OKAY ACTUALLY Lets sit down and think about what ideas I have for what KIND of name would fit each one, maybe that’ll help me out? CTD needs to have a badass strategy game type name, because... its a badass strategy game. Tho its more like ‘rune factory if it was a strategy game’. Badass but also full of cute people. You become badass because the game is cute and charming and your single arrow is the only thing between these cinnamon rolls and death! The reward for badassitude is further cuteness! And as the game goes on you rebuild this base and train all these people so they start joining your party to defend their home, until all the cuties are badass at the same time your stoic badass protag has become full-on cutie too. FRIENDSHIP. FRIENDSHIP, MY LAD. Y’ALL GONNA CHOKE ON IT!! .... so yeah how do you sum that up in a name? XD And then ZST needs to have a sort of nostalgic melancholy feel even though also its gonna be cute and funny cos everything i ever make is cute and funny. This story starts out at a very sad place before getting better, I want a name that feels as mournful as the protagonist begins. Hence the idea of it being some sort of idiom or saying that’d be instantly recogniseable, but like some sort of zombie pun too because puns. I like Give Up The Ghost cos that is literally the plot, ‘hey is it really possible to protect my daughter when she’s already dead?’ Hmm maybe it could be like a song lyric or a line from an old pom or something.... Changeling Sim... all I know is that compared to the others its gonna have a very happy and cute name that doesnt really have much stake in it. like, it doesnt matter as much if its perfect, i dont need to describe the whole premise in one word. The premise is pretty damn simple, you’re just adopting a fairy child and having Amazing Mum Adventures. The Less Sad Mum Game! It could be a goofy KH type word salad maybe? Random possible idea: Red Leicester. Which has nothing to do with anything, its just a type of cheese that sounds cool. But it was the name of my first comic during high school, which was just a dumb ‘lol me and my friends get superpowers’ thing that never got off the ground. So its a bit nostalgic to me! Possible other idea: Spectrum Heart, which is another name thats just been floating around in my brain for ages and i cant find anything to use for it. (it was the name of my digimon oc’s xros army at one point lol) RELATEDLY, maybe something could be Fiend Sympathy cos that was another cool name i thought up for a project ages ago but it didnt work out. That could work for witch mansion game.... AAAAAARGH now ive just gone from not enough ideas to too many ideas and none of them work!!!