Brainstorming about changing Game Develop name

[ThomasCVB]

@4ian

Asking first on the English forum allow to have opinions and hints from English speaking people, to avoid some caveats (For people speaking only french, any english name sounds cool).

Allow me to doubt it… The French language has known an unquestionable back in favor for a few years. Moreover, the “made in France” is promoted much currently. This is why to assert and strong this side high “made in France” would be on the one hand a beautiful pride, and on the other hand, a foot of nose to the anglicization excessively which one has trend find where it should not be.

Or then, you could to make name which wants nothing to say, which is not based on an existing word in some language that it is, that would be a solution to satisfy everyone.

[spoiler]Permets-moi d’en douter… La langue française connait un retour en grâce certain depuis quelques années. En outre, le “made in France” est beaucoup promu en ce moment. C’est pourquoi revendiquer haut et fort ce côté “made in France” serait d’une part une belle fierté, et d’autre part, un pied de nez à l’anglicisation à outrance qu’on a tendance à trouver là où elle ne devrait pas être.

Ou alors, tu pourrais faire un nom qui ne veut rien dire, qui n’est pas basé sur un mot existant dans quelque langue que ce soit, ça serait une solution pour satisfaire tout le monde.[/spoiler]

[Darkhog]

Perhaps maybe use one of names I suggested?

More suggestions:

GameMagic
GameProcessor
GameWand
GameSpark

[videotas]

For people speaking only french, any english name sounds cool

You can achieve almost the same effect for the none french by putting “le” or “la” in front of the name.

Replace letters in the name by numbers, like you did with your username 4ian.

…playground
…field(s)
…studio
…laboratory
…garage
…basement
…workshop
…toolshed
…sculpturer

CompilGameEngine

[ThomasCVB]

I propose names that could be pronounced either in French and in English, including playing on the words that exist in both languages ​​(studio, centre, etc…) …

• Studio 4 (reference to “4ian”)
• CFR (“concepteur de jeux par Florian Rival”, “game designer by Florian Rival” in English)
• V-Concept (“V” for “Video”)
• CJ Studio (CJ for “créateur de jeux”, “game maker” in English)

These proposals could be pronounced in both languages​​. For example, “Studio 4” would be pronounced “Studio Quatre” as “Studio Four”.

[mercenario]

@blurymind

well, first place to look would be google
google.bg/search?q=gdevelop … e&ie=UTF-8

who is using that name and are they stealing a lot of search results.

I like gdevelop - someone got the youtube page with the name though .

Now if you are willing to go wildly creative in exploring names, I would suggest checking this website
thesaurus.com/browse/prototype

Here are some words I dug up from it based on -flexible,powerful,clear…

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tour%20de%20force
TDF engine

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/probity
Probity

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lucidity
Lucid (expressed clearly; easy to understand.)
Lucid logic engine
lucid fire/rush/force/boost
lucid dream machine (ldm) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream)

thanks, he chose some years ago.
What google says going to church, so gdevelop me, took many years battling with the name, jjejejej … I was the first one to chose.

If you like gdevelop name and choose to set yourselves, gdevelop.org is yours!, Free one year hosting services!

Best regards

[who_is_da]

I have a few:

BrainChild
(that’s what our games is to us and that’s what this engine is to you.)

Rachna
(Sanskrit for Creation)

Engage (Engine)
(Create games that engage)

Using name like these would make sure Google hits directly to you and not the process of game development like it does. Also they allow for plethora of complimenting logo designs.

[ThomasCVB]

I like the names “Rachna” and “Engage”, because they are names that can be pronounced in both French and English.

[blurymind]

everyone is requesting it!
Change the name already. We are getting the same comments at forums and websites.

It’s kind of unfortunate that it’s named “Game Develop” – it can be difficult to search for relevant info sometimes.

Not to mention the Game Develop (really needs a more Google-friendly name!) is LGPL, meaning one isn’t required to release all source code (only that which alters the core engine).

why you gave the online version the google friendly name (gdevelop) and the open source one keeps the same name.

I propose calling it
OpenGdev
or
something along the lines.

The name should promote its open source nature imo.

gamedevelop is a too generic name that search engines hate. Everyone agrees

[Glaydur]

I have no suggestion for names but I’d just like to say that I don’t think it’s a good idea to add the word ‘game’ to the name.

I like the the name Engage Engine though

[4ian]

Any other thoughts about OpenGDev ?
Sounds nice having open on the name. Looks like a bit GDevApp (surely the final name of the webapp), nice also.

[ddabrahim]

@4ian

Any other thoughts about OpenGDev ?
Sounds nice having open on the name. Looks like a bit GDevApp (surely the final name of the webapp), nice also.

Honestly I hate it
Just feels too “crowded” for me, it try to represent too much information imo.

If you really want to change it I would prefer something light, short and elegant so please don’t try to put all the information of “this is open source”, “this is free”, “this is game development tool”, “no programming required” or any of it properties and functions into it name

Just find an unique name that sounds good and unique. Even your surname sounds good as GD new name at least to me:
“Rival”. Simply just call it “Rival”. Maybe it sounds stupid to you, I don’t know how common this surname in France and rest of the world but it sounds cool to me

Anyway I would prefer something short, simple like that and not related to it function and properties in any ways.

Some existing example:
GoDot
Stencyl
Shiva
Byond
C4
Tululoo

In my opinion, it name not necessarily have to refer to it properties and functions don’t even have to be a word in any language that means anything. I’m sure there are some “words” and names you really like (to use) for whatever reason, just make a list of them and try to find a new name that way. You can even change a letter in a word/name you like, for example Rival - Ryval you can even swap the letters Lavyr - Lavir - Aryl - Yral - Vyral and you can even add more letters to it to make something completely unique (or existing ) Vyral - Vyralis. See? this way I get from your surname “Rival” to words such as “Vyralis” which again sounds good to me and based on google translate means nothing in any language so it not anything stupid but this is only an example I don’t suggest to use it.

I suggest to play around with some words and names you like, and come up with some results in few days maybe we can also play around with your results and find a winner that way

But you can even use words that means something but sounds good.

Some existing example:
Gimp
Gile
Blender
Unity

Or you can even piece together two words (don’t have to be from the same language) to make an unique name for example: Leadwerks.

The point is that, please don’t use it name to refer to any of it properties functions and state. Just be simple, light and unique.

[Darkhog]

How about Libre Game Studio?

[4ian]

→ 3 word, too much

What about just changing the “official name” on all pages, on the wiki in the software and on the forum from Game Develop to GameDevelop ?
Could it be more more search engine friendly ?

[Glaydur]

How about dropping game and just GDevelop?

[4ian]

Another solution that sounds interesting because we can keep saying GD to shorten the name, no major change in the logo, and I think the name is kinda cool. It was the name of the webapp but I should change it shortly from GDevelop to GDevApp.

[blurymind]

i like gdevelop too

Having it be one word is a plus for search engines. If that word is unique- even better!
Having the word suggest that it is open source can be a plus, but it is not a must have. If you dont like it thats alright

There is only one website with the gdevelop name
gdevelop.co.za/

there are no websites with opengdev and no organizations.

I kind of like Rival. It does sound cool.
The Rival engine!

[Glaydur]

Switching to GDevelop will be hassle free compared to Rival.

Can even name the web version of GDevelop as GDWebApp

[blurymind]

gdevelop is definitelly more unique than gamedevelop.
Google and a lot of search engines will automatically split the two words and give you results if they were split. That is if they are gamedevelop- easy to identify by search engine and go to “did you mean game develop?”

If it were gdevelop on the other hand- that is a unique word. Not two generic words written without a spacing.

[Tanis]

Hi, I just found about Game Develop yesterday, I tried Construct Classic two years ago hoping to make my first games, but I quit using it (I got frustrated because I couldn’t do a proper game in fullscreen with scanlines without messing up the whole desktop). Now with Game Develop my interest has revived again, I will try to make my own game with Ghouls and Ghosts-like mechanics.

About the name, how about “GAMAKA”? It’s game + mangaka (creator of mangas, but it this gase of games); GAMAKER could be confused with Game Maker so i discarded it.

[4ian]

I think I’ll rename Game Develop to GDevelop because it’s shorter, sounds nice, is a shortcut for “Game Develop”, and GD acronym can still be used.
And the web app will be called GDevApp