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How Do You Come Up with a Good Title For Your ROM Hack or Fan Game?

Pixel64

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    This is my first thread, so hello everybody! :D

    The title is pretty self-explanatory, but I'm specifically looking for advice for deciding on a title for a difficulty hack (like the Drayano hacks). So fire away! I'd love to hear what everyone's processes are for title-generating.
     
    This is my first thread, so hello everybody! :D

    The title is pretty self-explanatory, but I'm specifically looking for advice for deciding on a title for a difficulty hack (like the Drayano hacks). So fire away! I'd love to hear what everyone's processes are for title-generating.

    first off welcome to the community pixel.
    A name is a difficult but also simple thing. often I think the reputation of the hack can be what makes a hack name recognizable or sound cool.

    As long as you put thought and feeling into it, whatever you come up with should be fine.

    like there's the drayano hacks like you said, he has Blaze black volt white, logically the phrase makes no sense, but it rolls off the tongue and sounds good enough, and because the games are so good, people tie it together and the name has a great impression in people's minds.


    Then there's also the "kaizo" series of games, which are known to be extremely challenging, because they are so notorious and all follow the same naming convention.
    A kaizo game is immediately recognizable.


    Just figure what you want to go for, sounding cool/good or having a title that's descriptive of the inspiration of the hack.
    For example I made a metronome only hack, and I had two titles for it, the post title is "the random hack"

    my alt title for the game itself was pokemon Z Random.

    Which was kind of a play on the sound from "The Random" and loosely inspired by Dragon Ball Z.

    So just put a little thought and care into it, and may a good game, and you're pretty much set.
     
    first off welcome to the community pixel.

    Thanks!

    I'm trying to incorporate the double battle aspect of my hack into the title, but i can't find anything that really fits. i'm going to focus on making a fun game and do the title later. thanks for the advice!

    no prob. :) lol and it sounds like its time to start putting words in on thesaurus.com

    duple , double-trouble, double team: another assault - The Seconding!! XD
     
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