Arcade Berg aka. "Learning Game Design with Arcade Berg"

Is Project Name an important thing?

I'm currently using some of my spare time to work on the pre-production of a little game project together with other people. A couple of days ago a friend who's part of the small team kept nagging me about deciding on a project name. I said that I didn't care much about that at the moment since we're still so early in development and everything is still floating in the air. Anyhow, he disagreed and kept nagging and nagging untill we finally came to the decision of "Iskall".

The little man became full of joy and said that finally the "first step" was complete.

So I've been thinking. Maybe a project name is really important when working with people. Not only because of communications, as that's a given but because with a name the project all of a sudden got way more tangible. At once, there was something new to strive for, to work on "Iskall".

The name in itself acts as a hub for the team.

When you've set a project name, you've actually created something, perhaps making you and the team more motivated to "keep working".

It got me thinking...

By the way, Iskall is Swedish and means Ice cold.