Friends! I need your feedback.
I am considering renaming the game once again. "The Yearning" is still a good fit, but it's confusing, pretentious, and easy to forget. It's also impossible to infer anything about the game from the name alone.
I'm considering renaming it to "Skirr".
"Skirr" is the name of the city in which the game takes place. Reasons I like this name:
- It means "to flee". The game is about fleeing the earth to escape an apocalypse.
- It sounds like "scurry", which evokes the creepy-crawly nature of the spider-bots.
- It doesn't have much competition on Google.
- To me it sounds like an action/adventure title.
- Taking inspiration from Astroneer, "SKIRR" in all caps looks acceptable and could help draw attention.
Reasons I don't like it:
- Confusing spelling. People who hear the title spoken might think it's spelled something like "Scur".
- Confusing pronunciation. People who read the title might think it's pronounced something like "Skeer".
What say you? Too confusing still?
Another title I thought about for a while is "Caligula", after a play by Albert Camus. "Caligula" is the name of the refuge planet in the game. Unfortunately there's already a "Caligula" game in development.
Apologies for so many rebrands, but I would rather nail the title than stay shackled to a bad one in order to minimize confusion. Besides, No One Knows About Your Game.
In other news, the dock is finally finished:
