How does a game get its name?<\/p>\n
That’s the question No More Robots founder (and onetime Gamasutra staffer) Mike Rose posed on Twitter<\/a> today, and the responses he got are worth reading if you’re at all curious about how much (or how little) work goes into naming games like\u00a080 Days<\/em>, Rock Band<\/em>,\u00a0DayZ<\/em>, and more.<\/p>\n Luckily, Rose was thoughtful enough to make a Moment<\/a> out of the whole thread, which we’ve taken the liberty of embedding below for easy reading.\u00a0<\/p>\n It’s fun to compare this list with the weird trivia, posited earler this year, that (based on surveys of Steam data) game names are actually getting shorter over time<\/a>.<\/p>\n Devs hungry for more bite-sized bits of game industry insight might also enjoy this Twitter-sourced story from 2014 about the different ways people talk about “beating” games around the world<\/a>, or the more recent Twitter thread of game devs sharing the hidden mechanics<\/a> that make their games stand out.<\/p>\n