What would an effective title be in your eyes? One that piques the player’s interest and makes them try it? A marketing-conducive title that’s easy to Google? One that effectively conveys what genre/tone/plot the player should expect?
There have been a couple threads on titling that may be useful:
Unfortunately, I don’t personally have any tips; I dislike naming things in general and usually go for the most heinous pun I can think of and call it a day. I find I either know exactly what title feels right as soon as I solidify the concept or I end up using something bland and am forever unhappy with it.
Thinking about titles I like, the ones that impress me the most are the ones that capture exactly what it is in a clever way. E.g.,
- Legally Blonde - stereotypical California valley girl goes to law school
- The Big Sleaze - parser game that parodies hardboiled crime fiction
- I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You - YA romance novel about a teenage girl who goes to a girls’ school for super spies
- Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover - same series
- The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window - parody of overly-serious mystery/psychological thrillers (cf. The Girl on the Train, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Woman in the Window)
For HGs, you can’t exceed 30 characters as the Google Play Store once again[1] restricts app titles to 30 characters.
It was 30, then they raised it to 50, then lowered it back to 30 for reasons known only to themselves. Apple caps at 50. ↩︎