Hi again,
Thank you a lot for all your feedbacks!
About
brotherhood I didn't know it was having a strong male connotation... I'm not a native english speaker as you may have noticed, it's my biggest problem with this title research thingy and that's why I value and appreciate your inputs a lot. Actually, there is already a playable female character (the archer on the screenshots... in fact EVERYBODY I showed the game to, has said "oh it's a girl? seriously?"... my graphic designer will have to revamp it ^^). We also hope to put some outside passages but that's not a problem : the center of the game is really underground, towers and dungeons.
So if we still go for this title, would it be better with the comma or not? Plural or not?
● Dungeon Brotherhood
● Dungeons: Brotherhood
Before going further I think I should give you more information about the game so you will have all the variables:
- The player will manage a pool of heroes not only 4 characters. He will choose before each quest which ones he wants to send. And of course death will be permanent as soon as he will leave a dungeon without being able to resurrect a dead character.
- All the rules I'm creating for this video game are entirely compatible with real life boardgaming : all the mechanics are based on dices and simple formulas (between vanilla HQ and Descent). I intend to provide a pdf rulebook along with the tilesets/rooms we made: a free print-and-play boardgame to encourage players to have a look to the video game.
- The background is not very serious: I'm a big Terry Pratchett fan so most of the quests will have funny parody elements and a lot of criticism against our modern society. For instance a mayor will ask to eradicate a zombie threat in his city's sewers. But the heroes will discover that the city's board was actually exploiting zombies to clean the sewers. And now that they are leading a pacific strike to get recognition (1 copper coin and 1 day off per week) the mayor wants to break this strike. Another example: a king is asking to bring him back his daughter that have been abducted
"one week before her wedding, my poor little sweetheart, she was so happy". But heroes will find out that it was not a rapt, the princess actually ran away with her true love (a paladin) to avoid an arranged marriage with an old creepy minister. And the heroes will have to slay the paladin while being attacked by the princess to succeed the mission.
Because of this setup and even if the main storyline will be slightly more serious, I think a too serious title like "Heroes of the Epic Era" is not a perfect match.
The idea of giving a name to the land where the heroes are going to travel like "Heroes of Allemar" or "Dungeons of Allemar" is seducing... In this case I need to find a joke for the country name...
Or "Dungeons of the Ancients" / "Dungeons of the Elders"?... the "ancients" and the "elders" being in fact us: the old school games players
. Talking about this, I also like the "Legacy" idea, because this game is a direct legacy from the past : HeroQuest, old school D&D dungeons, adventure books... "Dungeon Legacy" already popped in my head some time ago but after a search I found that it was already taken by a web comics. I build up more titles with "Legacy" (by the way, let's share my full title research list, there are more than 200:
https://goo.gl/s0UHXB) but none are really cool.
In fact, I'm a little jealous of the "Knights of Pen and Paper" game: it's an original title and it rings immediately in the head of all potentially interested player
. That's the kind of title I would love to find.
My attempts of creating a title with "tactical" was coming from the hope that by just reading the title everyone would understand instantly what kind of game it is (when I need to explain what kind of game I'm doing to people who are not aware of the HeroQuest "boardgame genre" I describe it as a crossing between Final Fantasy Tactics and Diablo). Counterparty being as you said that it's not very inspiring.
So, all in all :
● maybe "Dungeon Brotherhood" or "Dungeons: Brotherhood"
● maybe "Heroes of FunnyLandName" or "Dungeons of FunnyLandName"
● maybe a variant of Dungeon Legacy like "Dungeon
s Legacy"
Thank you again if you have more feedbacks or ideas!
And about the beta testing no worries: the game is developed with Unity so it's plateform agnostic and is already running as good on Windows, Mac, iOS and Android
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