EDIT6: Due to Steam needing an email from me so that I could get a new link, I decided it's not worth the hassle to change its name (Keeping the name polled high anyway).
EDIT5: yolo, Infrastruction it is.
Thank you @MurrayL@lemmy.world and everyone.
Thank you for all the ideas! Shoutout to "pussy eaters republic".
EDIT: added non-twitter poll link
Since my game is not (only) about villages, but building up an entire nation, I thought of changing the title to make it more appropriate.
"Nation Architect" and "Sovereign Architect" and "Sovereign Roads" are the other ideas.
Game concept: You play as a country leader, tasked with building up a country (either immortal president, or some form of AI). You will need to plan roads and factories, then launch bidding process to see your blueprints get built. You will manage "teams", which are generated by towns at certain milestones, specialize them and buy them vehicles. Eventually, relations with other countries will come into play as well.
A single badly-planned highway bridge is enough to bankrupt you, like irl for weaker economies.
Link to the name change poll:
The game (pre-demo prototype in the works):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4136240/Country_Architect/
If you have other suggestions, I'd love to hear them as well.
51 Comments
Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 35 pts · 257d
Is there any media link that isn’t to X? Many don’t like giving clicks to the Nazi social media stronghold.
I’d love to see your game!
EDIT: Your steam link was great.
I recommend simplifying it: Architect
This also leaves you open for sequels/expansions that may have a different theme than “country.”
brsrklf@jlai.lu · 45 pts · 257d
A bit of warning : I've seen indie developers mention that having a single common word for their game title was a mistake. It makes it hard to search for. A combination of words or a simple phrase is better in that regard.
Searching only for "Architect game" right now already yields a bunch of things, like a Korean MMO, actual house architect simulators, and you know, the very popular Prison Architect.
DaMummy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 257d
The song Track 17 by Unknown Artist was the best song on Napster!
Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 257d
Fair enough.
purple_mimosa@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 257d
Thank you so much!!!
You're right, I should have made some google poll or something, darn it. (EDIT: added non-twitter link, removed old one)
There are games such as Prison Architect (that are my inspiration in various ways), but I wouldn't bee as bold as to name mine just Architect. 😅
Another idea was Nation Builder, but that also seems too generic to me.
You're the first person to explicitly say to like my Steam page (even though I am fully aware the graphics are kind of atrocious), so thanks again. I'll keep developing this project, and see where it goes.
Red0ctober@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 257d
Architect: From The Ground Up
SmokedBillionaire@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 257d
I like this and had the same thought. My other thought was calling it something like "Breaking Ground"
Apeman42@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 257d
Nationeering?
PhatalFlaw@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 257d
Nationeer?
samc@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 257d
Honestly, +1 for Nation Builder. Generic isn't necessarily a problem. It gives space for the gameplay itself to define the game's identity, rather than its title.
purple_mimosa@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 256d
It turns out, Nation Builder is already taken as a board game name.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 256d
Nation Builder was my thought.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 25 pts · 257d
You mean how it's used to describe rural areas, too? It still works the way you expect it to, even under that definition. 🤷♂️
Or do you mean the genre of music? 🤔
markz@suppo.fi · 9 pts · 257d
Such dirty double entendre
Aneb@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 257d
I like Country Architect too! It could lead to a country-esk builder who builds small towns and leads them to building nations based on principles the player learns from starting simple and escalates on the premise that different cities and states will act according to geographic landscape and resources. I wish OP the best in naming his game and designing the systems of play that bring education and principles into the forefront of a player's motivations
purple_mimosa@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 256d
tysm!
biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone · 18 pts · 257d
You'll make a certain real civil engineer upset by naming it architect and then having a engineer on the front. :)
Nation Engineer gets you away from some of the genetic architect slop (which often follows a successful game) and maybe draws a YouTuber into playing it.
Good luck with your game!
purple_mimosa@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 257d
Very good ideas and information, thank you.
adhd_traco@piefed.social · 13 pts · 257d
I don't like anything with 'sovereign' in it because it makes me think of the Sovereign Individual and the big tech people preaching it.
I'd probably think of Jargon of the industry, words, phrases, etc. that people use who work all that infrastructure stuff at the core of your game. And then hope they inspire something. Some games that make think of this, for example: Tropico, Anno, Satisfactory
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 257d
Check out the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and think of that instead the next time.
MurrayL@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 257d
Infrastruction or Infrastructor?
purple_mimosa@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 256d
So, I think I'm choosing Infrastruction.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 256d
Ooh, I like this
Edit: I think part of why I like it is that it's evocative of both "construction" and "destruction", and civil engineering necessarily involves aspects of both. Like, even when there isn't existing infrastructure to demolish, there'll still be tasks such as digging into the ground to anchor support structures, which I could consider to be a kind of destruction
purple_mimosa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 256d
MurrayL@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 256d
Hope it works well - best of luck with the project!
purple_mimosa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 256d
Thank you.
purple_mimosa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 256d
purple_mimosa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 257d
oh my.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 257d
Sounds more like a Civil Engineer than architect - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel who built countless bridges, railways, ships, tunnels etc…
Forester@pawb.social · 8 pts · 257d
Building nations
Send me a key if you use it
jazzkoalapaws@ttrpg.network · 5 pts · 257d
National Architect?
mtpender@piefed.social · 4 pts · 257d
An Architect?
Shame
Shame
Shame
purple_mimosa@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 257d
not that kind of architect 😓
JackLSauce@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 257d
Jeff
l_isqof@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 256d
Jeffland?
verdi@feddit.org · 3 pts · 256d
*Dear Leader
fulcrummed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 257d
Birth of a Nation, Fledgling NationEdit: kind soul pointed out the shitty connotations of Birth of a Nation, definitely do not call it that!
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 257d
CountVlad47@feddit.org · 10 pts · 257d
Birth of a Nation is also the name of a well known film which is notorious for containing racist stereotypes and portraying white supremacists as heroes. Fledgling Nation is good though.
fulcrummed@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 257d
Oooofff, thanks for pointing that out!! Yikes - Birth of a Nation, dead in the water, terrible suggestion, strike it from the record, definitely don’t use that.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 257d
That film straight up resurrected KKK, which was dead by then, and invented cross-burning.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 257d
'Architectcracy.' Which is more or less, "rule by architects."
purple_mimosa@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 257d
That would be architectcrazy.
I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 256d
How about ...
Masterplan Nation
Build of Nations
pheonixdown@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 257d
It sounds very infrastructure/trade based than politics, so I'd stay away from nation/country terms. Regional Planning would be a generic term for the infrastructure piece, could use Commerce if trade is important. >
bryndos@fedia.io · 2 pts · 256d
Nation Building
AuthorityAustraliaAussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 257d
State Architect
Deconceptualist@leminal.space · 2 pts · 256d
Maybe... Nation Modernization
But if you call it that, you'll have to build out some scenarios for the player (either like stages or selectable by difficulty) where they have to solve the problems with your prebuilt nations. Of course you could keep a sandbox/start-from-scratch mode too.
Epp2@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 257d
Petri Country.
fulcrummed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 257d
l_isqof@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 256d
Architects don't design countries. Town planners or Master planners do...
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 256d
Technically those don't design countries either. They just tell people where what is allowed to be build.
Actually, we are kinda looping back to architects do design countries. Puzzle piece by puzzle piece.
purple_mimosa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 256d
This kinda convinced me to stay with Country Architect (for now). It seems like no matter what I pick, there will be some downside, people telling me about (very valid) concerns about legibility, clarity, accuracy and whatnot.
Also, someone said there are terms such as "the architect of this or that idea, concept, big thing", that is basically synonymous with "creator". That's what I was going for anyway.
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -2 pts · 257d
AI Slop Architect?