Question about game title

IPv6 · Post by **IPv6** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:41 pm

Hello!
i`m developing casual game and finally i reach the point when i should choose the name for it

i`m already have one, but since i`m not natively English speaking person, there is a common advise for newbies like me (in casual game development) to ask native speakers about the name of the game (may be non-obvious associations, etc)
2 words about the game: casual, match3 style game with diamonds but really unique (yet easy to understand and fun to play with) game rules (never seen before, by me at least

). i decided to name it "Jewelsland".

So there is a question to native english speakers - what associations are raised by this name in you? for example if you accidentally look at this word on game sites like bigfish.com, popcap.com (this is weel known casual game publishers), etc.

Thanks in advance for replies!

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 4:31 pm

Okay I'm an english speaker and I just about scraped through english class in high school (10 years ago) but I can't remember proper terms for anything, so i'll say- "thing of nouns" becomes "noun thing"

"land of jewels" is "jewel land"
while "jewel's land" is "land belonging to a person called jewel"
and "jewels land" is kinda badly translated english..
it seems to be something non-native speakers get wrong all the time, like ads and spam touting a "downloads accelerator", "websites publisher" or "messages distributer". hope this helps

IPv6 · Post by **IPv6** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:17 am

Yes, surely this helps!!!

Thank you for the answer!!! i didn`t expect this word to be completely wrong and illiterate. So Jewelland is more correct word for such a thing? (Land of jewels of course

)

May i ask for some more help on this topic? What can you tell about following words (i know 2 last of them are made-up words... is it ok BTW?)

GemVale
JewelVale
Gemstitution
Gemtuition

IPv6 · Post by **IPv6** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:19 am

Up...

can anyone comment on the following name of the game - Gemtuition? is it ok for english-speaking auditory?

Thanks!

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:24 pm

gem tuition also sounds wrong, not sure what the proper grammar rule is but i think "gem tutor" sounds better.. but then it sounds like a kids game with an education agenda.
I think gemland sounds best, but that name has probably already been used 100 times by different people!

IPv6 · Post by **IPv6** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:08 pm

Opps

i thought it will make associations with 'intuition', not 'tutor'... Am i wrong? It seems that it is harder to find unique name than to write unique game