Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of

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• Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is there any media link that isn’t to X? Many don’t like giving clicks to the Nazi social media stronghold.

  I’d love to see your game!

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  • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A bit of warning : I’ve seen indie developers mention that having a single common word for their game title was a mistake. It makes it hard to search for. A combination of words or a simple phrase is better in that regard.

    Searching only for “Architect game” right now already yields a bunch of things, like a Korean MMO, actual house architect simulators, and you know, the very popular Prison Architect.

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    • DaMummy@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The song Track 17 by Unknown Artist was the best song on Napster!

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    • Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fair enough.

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  • purple_mimosa@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thank you so much!!! You’re right, I should have made some google poll or something, darn it.

    There are games such as Prison Architect (that are my inspiration in various ways), but I wouldn’t bee as bold as to name mine just Architect. 😅 Another idea was Nation Builder, but that also seems too generic to me. You’re the first person to explicitly say to like my Steam page (even though I am fully aware the graphics are kind of atrocious), so thanks again. I’ll keep developing this project, and see where it goes.

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    • Apeman42@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nationeering?

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    • Red0ctober@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Architect: From The Ground Up

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    • samc@feddit.uk ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Honestly, +1 for Nation Builder. Generic isn’t necessarily a problem. It gives space for the gameplay itself to define the game’s identity, rather than its title.

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    • BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nation Builder was my thought.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  it turns out “country” has a double meaning in English

  You mean how it’s used to describe rural areas, too? It still works the way you expect it to, even under that definition. 🤷‍♂️

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  • markz@suppo.fi ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or do you mean the genre of music?

    Such dirty double entendre

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  • Aneb@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I like Country Architect too! It could lead to a country-esk builder who builds small towns and leads them to building nations based on principles the player learns from starting simple and escalates on the premise that different cities and states will act according to geographic landscape and resources. I wish OP the best in naming his game and designing the systems of play that bring education and principles into the forefront of a player’s motivations

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    • purple_mimosa@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      tysm!

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• adhd_traco@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t like anything with ‘sovereign’ in it because it makes me think of the Sovereign Individual and the big tech people preaching it.

  I’d probably think of Jargon of the industry, words, phrases, etc. that people use who work all that infrastructure stuff at the core of your game. And then hope they inspire something. Some games that make think of this, for example: Tropico, Anno, Satisfactory

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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Check out the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and think of that instead the next time.

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• verdi@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  *Dear Leader

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• Forester@pawb.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Building nations

  Send me a key if you use it

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• I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How about …

  Masterplan Nation

  Build of Nations

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• MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Infrastruction?

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  • purple_mimosa@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So, I think I’m choosing Infrastruction.

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    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Ooh, I like this

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    • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hope it works well - best of luck with the project!

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  • purple_mimosa@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Infrastructor oh my.

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• jazzkoalapaws@ttrpg.network ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  National Architect?

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• Deconceptualist@leminal.space ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe… Nation Modernization

  But if you call it that, you’ll have to build out some scenarios for the player (either like stages or selectable by difficulty) where they have to solve the problems with your prebuilt nations. Of course you could keep a sandbox/start-from-scratch mode too.

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• vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  AI Slop Architect?

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• bryndos@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nation Building Authority Australia

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• JackLSauce@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Jeff

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  • l_isqof@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Jeffland?

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• setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ‘Architectcracy.’ Which is more or less, “rule by architects.”

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  • purple_mimosa@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That would be architectcrazy.

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• mtpender@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  An Architect?

  Shame

  Shame

  Shame

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  • purple_mimosa@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    not that kind of architect 😓

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• l_isqof@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Architects don’t design countries. Town planners or Master planners do…

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  • Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Technically those don’t design countries either. They just tell people where what is allowed to be build.

    Actually, we are kinda looping back to architects do design countries. Puzzle piece by puzzle piece.

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    • purple_mimosa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      This kinda convinced me to stay with Country Architect (for now). It seems like no matter what I pick, there will be some downside, people telling me about (very valid) concerns about legibility, clarity, accuracy and whatnot.

      Also, someone said there are terms such as “the architect of this or that idea, concept, big thing”, that is basically synonymous with “creator”. That’s what I was going for anyway.

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• fulcrummed@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Birth of a Nation

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  • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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  • CountVlad47@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Birth of a Nation is also the name of a well known film which is notorious for containing racist stereotypes and portraying white supremacists as heroes. Fledgling Nation is good though.

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    • fulcrummed@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oooofff, thanks for pointing that out!! Yikes - Birth of a Nation, dead in the water, terrible suggestion, strike it from the record, definitely don’t use that.

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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That film straight up resurrected KKK, which was dead by then, and invented cross-burning.

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• pheonixdown@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It sounds very infrastructure/trade based than politics, so I’d stay away from nation/country terms. Regional Planning would be a generic term for the infrastructure piece, could use Commerce if trade is important. >

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• Epp2@lemmynsfw.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Petri Country.

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