The Game Name Game

[Melon]

Here's a little forum game for everyone to play.

Imagine you're in charge of a games company and you've got a reasonable budget. You're allowed to make what you like, on any platform, etc., but with only one condition. You've been given a name for your game and your game MUST be about it.

So what's the best ideas you could come up?

I'll go first. I'll come up with a name for a game, and you all pitch in with ideas, storyline, what it would be about, etc. After a while, I'll decide what I think is the best, and then the winner gets to make up a name, and decide the winner from there, and so on. If you win but don't want to come up with a name, then first person to come up with one gets to be "host" instead.

So the name to start off with is:
The Daz Doorstep Challenge

I'm going to base this not only on the best idea, but making a funny one would help as well.

Get brainstorming! Remember, the more terrible the name, the better!

[bonz]

The Daz Doorstep Challenge
A Paperboy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperboy_%28video_game%29) type game, where you have to deliver papers to the customer's doorsteps with the main hero called Daz.

It features highly sophisticated BMX bike simulation like the Dave Mirra and Matt Hoffman games and physically correct newspaper throwing ballistics.
That allows you to do lots of tricks and stunts in the various, interactive delivering locations (sub-urban, small village, city,...) where also many dangers occur (competitive delivery companies, dogs, angry wierdos, traffic,...).

It also features multiplayer where you can fight (throw papers) in various modes.

[Akuryou13]

A Paperboy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperboy_%28video_game%29) type game, where you have to deliver papers to the customer's doorsteps with the main hero called Daz.

It features highly sophisticated BMX bike simulation like the Dave Mirra and Matt Hoffman games and physically correct newspaper throwing ballistics.
That allows you to do lots of tricks and stunts in the various, interactive delivering locations (sub-urban, small village, city,...) where also many dangers occur (competitive delivery companies, dogs, angry wierdos, traffic,...).

It also features multiplayer where you can fight (throw papers) in various modes.paper-toss deathmatch! that would be great! :D

[Paul.Power]

You play as a Washing Powder Advertising Gimp. Faced with the daunting task of getting reluctant housewives to swap two packets in exchange for one (or something), you must construct ever more elaborate devices to separate them from their beloved packets of Daz.

My brain isn't working very well today, but I thought I might as well submit an entry pertaining to... well, Daz washing powder.

[Squirminator2k]

No, these suggestions aren't "mature" enough. The industry would never pick them up. Here's my take...

It is the year 2417. Humanity is facing extinction, Earth having been invaded by the ferocious, war-like Daz - heavily armoured humanoid creatures that resemble dinosaur-rhino hybrids. The leader of the Resistance has managed to acquire a ship, and now intends to find every last human on the planet and take them away to safety.

The problem? What is left of humanity has been enslaved. The resistance must now sneak into various Daz complexes and fortresses across the globe - on ground, under the sea and in the sky - in order to rescue the last remaining humans... right off of the Daz's very own doorstep.

Rated M for violence of a graphic nature, some swearing, and really impressive bumpmaps designed to distract you from just how poorly-designed the gameplay actually is.

[Alien King]

A Wii only game.

You are a member of the Divine Automated Zealots*. They are a division of robots who's sole purpose is to run up and promote the company for which they work for. Your gole is to convert as many people to your product as possible, competing against your co-robots and rival companies.

Your conversion techniques can involve throwing free samples of the product at people, smashing windows or doors in the process. This would fully utilize the Wiimote. Other techniques may be much nicer, such as knocking at the door and forcibly suggesting your product. Again, the wiimote would be used to its full effect :D.


I have yet to think of a full list of possible conversion techniques or Wiimote actions. But I'm sure a large number of suitable options will present itself.


*Yes, I suck at names. But it was the only thing I could think of to form the acronym DAZ

[Vader]

In this Action Adventure game, you start off as a packet of Daz, held tightly by Shamne Richie. As he approaches the door to a terraced house on a rainy day in Barnsley you awake, startled from a dream about your father. In the dream he was dying but in real life he is long dead.

Or so you think...

As you are carried towards the doorstep you are dropped. Your side splits and your innards start pouring over the floor, foaming like an angry dog's mouth or cappucino. Mr. Richie punches a camera man and storms off and a young female boom operator picks you up and scoops some of your brains back into your skull.

Fade to the lounge of a contemporary apartment in London, a bachelorette's pad if you will, bachelorette is even a word. You gain control of the character and find you are gfted with incredible powers. You can blow soapy bubbles and make things clean. Okay, not such great powers; it's not like you can slice through buildings with your elbow or anything but you can make things clean.

The lady who brought you here likes that you cleaned her white cotton sofa just by sitting on it. She likes it a lot. She likes it so much she wants you to wear her underwear and roll about on her sheep-skin rug.

You gain control of the character and have to carefully roll about on a white rug in womens' underwear. The tricky part is that you can't touch the red carpet or you'll get everything pink.

Of course, the game is rigged so that you do get it pink and the lady gets really angry and kicks you in the face 8 or 9 (randomly decided on every play through) times before pouring you down the toilet.

Flashback to the dream in which you see your father falling into a bucket of water.

Half way through the flashback you go into another flashback of you as an inanimate box being filled with soap powder. You realise you are not sentient and are, in fact, just a box of soap powder.

Roll credits.

Refund offered with every purchase.

[Melon]

That looks like all the suggestions we're getting.

Vader wins this round. Now you get to choose a name and judge for the next winner.

[Vader]

Sorry for the delay; I've been really busy. Anyway, here's the title:

Sock it to me!

Feel free to abuse the title somewhat, e.g. "Socket to me" or "Soq est Umie" or whatever.

[Paul.Power]

Borrowing heavily from bonz, you play as a courier whose modus operandi is to slingshot goods to people using an old sock (via the Wiimote, of course).

[SomePerson]

Your fairly generic fighting game, only the characters are all sock puppets.

[Squirminator2k]

Detective Jacque Etumi has only three days to solve a murder - his own.

In the heart of Paris in the early 1930s, reknowned Psychic Marie Bella tracks the detective down. She has seen his death, and she has seen her own - she will die within mere moments of informing him of his fate. Etumi is skeptical until Marie steps out into the rainy night and is run over by a speeding motorcar... just as she had predicted...

Using the only clue Marie was able to provide - the image of a Nine of Spades - The race is on to find out who will kill him, why, and more importantly to stop it from happening - to prevent Marie's death from having been for nothing. But is his investigation attracting unwanted attention? Will his probing and detective work ultimately lead to the very murder Marie was trying to prevent?

The game will be advertised as an intricate puzzle-adventure game slash story-telling experience, but will actually be a third-person shooter with lacklustre controls, mimimal puzzles of insultingly easy difficulty, and poor dialogue. It will later be ported to the Wii, for which reviewers will praise the improved aim but bemoan the lack of extra content, but still feel it necessary to give it a score two points higher than the original because otherwise the publishers won't send them review copies anymore.

[Melon]

After years of terrible comedy, the Chuckle Brothers decided it was time to make a Chuckle Brothers game. Unfortunately (or fortunately), they split up and separated after an unfortunate prank by Barry involving Paul's precoius pet poodle Shnookums.

Not to let years of work go to waste, Barry continued the project and released "Sock it to me" on his own, only for it to be shadowed by Paul's far superior game, "Sock it to you". Facing financial ruin, Barry eventually died a few months later suffering a heart attack after laughing too hard when visiting a comedy club. The irony.

The game itself was billed as a children's game, that is, it was far too easy and insulted the intelligence of all who played it. It involved helping sort out the Chuckle Brothers washing, and you had to use their individual skills of being annoying to help pair up their socks with the correct colours whilst having to listen to dodgy catchphrases on repeat.

"Oh dear, oh dear"

[Alien King]

The player controls a variety of sock characters who's sole purpose is to avoid being scooped up by the evil Humans and being placed into the Washing Machine.
Multiplayer modes included*
Single Player largely consists of some sort of Adventure mode.

* Game modes include Time Limit games (avoid the Human the longest) and getting as dirty as possible - winner is the sock who is most filthy after the time limit.

[Paul.Power]

After years of terrible comedy, the Chuckle Brothers decided it was time to make a Chuckle Brothers game. Unfortunately (or fortunately), they split up and separated after an unfortunate prank by Barry involving Paul's precoius pet poodle Shnookums.

Not to let years of work go to waste, Barry continued the project and released "Sock it to me" on his own, only for it to be shadowed by Paul's far superior game, "Sock it to you". Facing financial ruin, Barry eventually died a few months later suffering a heart attack after laughing too hard when visiting a comedy club. The irony.

The game itself was billed as a children's game, that is, it was far too easy and insulted the intelligence of all who played it. It involved helping sort out the Chuckle Brothers washing, and you had to use their individual skills of being annoying to help pair up their socks with the correct colours whilst having to listen to dodgy catchphrases on repeat.

"Oh dear, oh dear"

I enjoyed the Chuckle Brothers :p

[Squirminator2k]

I didn't. Even as a child I was repulsed by them.

[Pigbuster]

In Sock It Toomey, you will step into the shoes of investment banker Craig Toomey, that lovable rapscallion from Stephen King's hit film, The Langoliers!
Deal with the incredible stress of your job. Can you help your customers invest in a proper hedge fund with good dividends, or will you be chastised by your overbearing father?
Suddenly, when on a flight to Boston to attend a meeting, you will fly through a time rift and get trapped in the past with a number of other passengers. Here you will slowly go more and more insane. Attend imaginary meetings and stab the other passengers with butcher knives! Then, you will get eaten by Langoliers.
The end!

Rated E for Everyone.

[Luther]

The premise of the hit Nintendo DS game Socket Tomb "E" finds the player charged with exploring an ever more complex set of ancient pyramids. Each tomb contains a collection of devious traps, designed to kill the intruder before he reaches the burried king's treasures. You'll be collecting seemingly unrelated artifacts along the way and using your puzzle solving skills* to combine them into the solution to each deadly trap. Bats! Mummies!! Spiders!!! Sand!!!!

*Random clicking

[Melon]

Normally Vader would choose the winner now, but seeing as he hasn't been here, and I want to move the game along, I declare that Squirminator2K wins that round.

[Squirminator2k]

Magical. My supposed title:

Cacophony of Light

Narf.

[Pigbuster]

Darkness is devouring the entire world.
Soon everything will be covered in shadow.

The only way to dispel the darkness is with the glorious sound of a chorus of angels.
As the conductor of the largest angel chorus in the heavens, it is up to you to conduct your vocalists to destroy all of the darkness.

Unfortunately for you, the angels don't give you any respect.They never practice, and they go out drinking every night! No matter how much you plead, they never listen and party all night and day. The world will end unless it hears the sound of angels!

There's only one solution. Beat the music out of them. 30 levels of angel bashing fun, eventually pitting you up against the big man himself! Will the screams of the angels be enough to dispel the darkness? Find out on your Sony Playstation system.

[FutureWorm]

Magical. My supposed title:

Cacophony of Light

Narf.
god vs. satan: the game

[Akuryou13]

Darkness is devouring the entire world.
Soon everything will be covered in shadow.

The only way to dispel the darkness is with the glorious sound of a chorus of angels.
As the conductor of the largest angel chorus in the heavens, it is up to you to conduct your vocalists to destroy all of the darkness.

Unfortunately for you, the angels don't give you any respect.They never practice, and they go out drinking every night! No matter how much you plead, they never listen and party all night and day. The world will end unless it hears the sound of angels!

There's only one solution. Beat the music out of them. 30 levels of angel bashing fun, eventually pitting you up against the big man himself! Will the screams of the angels be enough to dispel the darkness? Find out on your Sony Playstation system.ROFL!!! WIN!!

[FutureWorm]

WIN!!
please don't do this

[Akuryou13]

please don't do thisI could have said "AWESOME!" or something of that sort if you would prefer.

[FutureWorm]

I could have said "AWESOME!" or something of that sort if you would prefer.
it's preferable yes

[Melon]

Cacophony of Light is a dancemat game, where two players try to out-dance each other. However, if a player does well, then the background on the opponents screen will flash increasingly brighter lights very quickly in order to distract them.

A breakdance version of the game is available for people with epilepsy.

[Alien King]

A dark darkness shrouds the land. The world become ravaged with strange twisted dark minion... things. Anyway, you are a deluded young-adult who decides he can save his town by running around with a flash-light. It is your mission to bring light to your town and the world. You kill enemies by shining your light into their eyes.
Weapons include your standard flash light, big heavy torches, pin-point laser pointers for sniping and of course, the almighty car headlights (although you can't drive cars as you lack a license).

Objectives include things like reactivating lighthouses... or turning on the flood lights in stadiums and such.

[SupSuper]

A dark darkness shrouds the land. The world become ravaged with strange twisted dark minion... things. Anyway, you are a deluded young-adult who decides he can save his town by running around with a flash-light. It is your mission to bring light to your town and the world. You kill enemies by shining your light into their eyes.
Weapons include your standard flash light, big heavy torches, pin-point laser pointers for sniping and of course, the almighty car headlights (although you can't drive cars as you lack a license).

Objectives include things like reactivating lighthouses... or turning on the flood lights in stadiums and such.That's been done.

[Alien King]

That's been done.

Damn !

[Melon]

This game is really going nowhere in here.

I'm going to create another version of it in OO. Maybe it'll get some more attention in there.

EDIT: New thread is here. (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=34728)