How do you name your projects before the release title?

kuligs2

Hello, im new here, not sure if this was asked before, but im curious, how do you guys name projects when you first start working on them, either on paper, notes, or in godot, and how does that differ from the released product or something that you would release it under?

I know some maybe all game industries have "CODE-NAMES" for the projects that they work on, and then they release under a different name.

As someone that havent released anything i have only projects and their respective code-names.

Godot projects

Blender stuff

Toxe

kuligs2 how do you guys name projects when you first start working on them

Very boringly. ;-)

Usually something like:

Game 01 - Defender Clone
Game 02 - Isometric Endless Shooter
Game 03 - Portal Shooter
Game 04 - Sidescrolling Planes
Program 01 - Tablet Trainer
Program 02 - Touchscreen Trainer
Program 03 - Hotkeys Manager
Test 01 - Blender Export
Test 02 - Modal Dialogs
Test 03 - Gamepads
Test 04 - Combine Images
Test 05 - GDExtension

I give it a rough name and enumerate them.

xyz

I just use whatever first pops into mind and eventually rename later. Don't forget computers make renaming stuff really easy 😉

kuligs2

xyz but what names pop into your mind? thats the point of this thread 😃 unless youre shy showing your project names.. no pressure

Toxe

kuligs2 For me it's usually a rough description of what that game, program or test is about, like "Isometric Endless Shooter" for a game or "State Machines" for a test project.

xyz

kuligs2 xyz but what names pop into your mind? thats the point of this thread 😃 unless youre shy showing your project names.. no pressure

It changes constantly as stuff constantly pop into my head. Currently I have only a single personal game project active whose name was changed several times. For tests, ideas and prototypes I use descriptive names that say what the thing is about, similar to what @Toxe posted. Here are some folder names of past game projects from my drawers:

alpine 2
climber
cellvasion
concentric
elementals
escape from fishing community island
escape from hell
expander
fall of the cog
fde (stands for "fully destructible environment")
gagarin singularity
high functioning
homeostasis
infinite velocity bike
kraken 3d
nucular ballistixxx fetisch
panhandlers inc
pastoral
placebo girl
retro metro
sausage 3d
slip slop
troll the game 3d
tube
up the pudding

kuligs2

xyz sausage 3d

very sus

xyz

kuligs2 xyz sausage 3d

very sus

Why?

kuligs2

xyz

kuligs2 Let me dispel it for you. It's about a granny and a butcher teaming up to chase and slaughter a pig and turn it into a processed meat product. Make of it what you will 😂