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Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

Hello there, as some of you may know, I'm currently studying Games Development in college. However, in less than a month, I would have finished college and will be moving into University to study to become an English teacher (odd progression, I know). During uni and whilst teaching, perhaps even for as long as I'm physically able to, I plan to create indie video games in my spare time with the intent of publishing them wherever I see fit (eg: Steam, App Store, etc.).

As part of my final assessment in college, I'm creating a game that I intend to continue to work on even after it has been submitted (my college allows us to retain the rights to any games we create whilst on the course). I intend to publish this game on Steam as my first official game. In preparation for this, I'm looking to start up social media platforms to promote my game; that brings me to the topic of this thread:

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I need a brand name. Currently, it's the only thing holding me back from, what I consider to be, beginning my journey as an indie game developer. I've always assumed that I'd just go with "mutantdevle games" but more recently I've decided that I want to go with something less generic.

My best idea so far is is the brand title "Devle's Advocate". However, I want to get some feedback on that. My friends had a mixed reaction to it, some saying it was really good and others saying that it seemed too silly. My main issue with it is that it doesn't really roll off the tongue too well. Especially when put in the context of "Devle's Advocate Games", "Devle's Advocate Studio" or "Devle's Advocate Games Studio".

I'd quite like to include 'devle' somewhere in my branding but that's not set in stone. I'm basically just looking for feedback and/or suggestions on names I could use for my indie branding.

TLDR:

I'm looking for suggestions/feedback on what brand name I should publish indie games under.   

Thanks for the help.

Thanks to everyone's help, I've settled on a brand name. However, I'm now looking to create a temporary logo for myself. My art skills aren't very good, so it's unlikely I'm going to create anything with a wow factor, but I still want to create something that's passable for now. Later on, most likely once I get a bit of profit from publishing my first game, I intend to pay someone to redesign the logo to make it look nice and professional. For now though, I'd appreciate feedback on the images that I post in the thread. This feedback could be colour suggestions, critiques of the design, or any general advice/guidance you can give me on creating my own logo. Thanks for all the help.

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Re: Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

That's odd progression indeed

If Devle is your nickname, I don't think naming a game studio in your own honour by simply showing your name into the studio name is a good idea
Consider changing it a bit so that studio's name maybe contains a reference to your name, that would be interesting
Here's what came to my mind:
DevLevels
DelveGames (this isn't misspelled)
Elved Studio (Devle backwards, also after I wrote this I realized "Elved" sounds like a verb word for "Elf")

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mutantdevle

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Re: Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

DevLevels

I really like this one tbh.

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Re: Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

so you want a name on where all your game can be foudn hmm name dpends alos if your gonna be alone or gonna do it wiht a ffirend if do it wiht a friend maby combine your an dhis name? and or your/his usernames on th einternet (liek yours is mutantdevle)

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Re: Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

so you want a name on where all your game can be foudn hmm name dpends alos if your gonna be alone or gonna do it wiht a ffirend if do it wiht a friend maby combine your an dhis name? and or your/his usernames on th einternet (liek yours is mutantdevle)

It's essentially going to just be me. However, my specialism is game design and programming. I'm also fairly decent at creating sounds, music and voice acting but if I want something more than just basic sound then I'd need to pay someone for that. Whilst I could make all the art myself, I'm planning on outsourcing all of my art and paying others to create it for me as this is literally the best of my art skills:

As you can see, I used wheels to avoid adding a walk cycle and I also gave up trying to add animation to the arms so I changed the robots to basically have a psychic stump.

So whilst it is primarily just me, at least 1 other person will be involved with every game. Ideally, I'd like to have the same artist each time. But the point is that I don't really want the brand to be exclusively me since others will also be involved but I would like it to reference me in some way.

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Re: Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

I realize this probably sounds generic too, but what about IndieDev Productions?

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Re: Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

so you want a name on where all your game can be foudn hmm name dpends alos if your gonna be alone or gonna do it wiht a ffirend if do it wiht a friend maby combine your an dhis name? and or your/his usernames on th einternet (liek yours is mutantdevle)

It's essentially going to just be me. However, my specialism is game design and programming. I'm also fairly decent at creating sounds, music and voice acting but if I want something more than just basic sound then I'd need to pay someone for that. Whilst I could make all the art myself, I'm planning on outsourcing all of my art and paying others to create it for me as this is literally the best of my art skills:
https://i.imgur.com/eHJMS1U.png

As you can see, I used wheels to avoid adding a walk cycle and I also gave up trying to add animation to the arms so I changed the robots to basically have a psychic stump.

So whilst it is primarily just me, at least 1 other person will be involved with every game. Ideally, I'd like to have the same artist each time. But the point is that I don't really want the brand to be exclusively me since others will also be involved but I would like it to reference me in some way.

the robot is not bad exept the head could be tweaked about your name maby somethign wiht indie games (i dont knwo what an indie game is)

lalos maby: satans game production

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Norwee

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Re: Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

Indiedevler games.

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Devleloper (Developer)

Idk I just thought of this random name

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I have no idea what im doing and dont know if its working

IHNIW DADKIFW productions

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What about

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Devlelver Digital

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Raphe9000

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Re: Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

Sadly, my first thought of inDev is taken. I have a feeling TaskManager's DevLevels will work best. You could even do the logo like this:

DevLevels

It could use other colors of course; I just used HTML color names because I was too lazy to get color codes.

If you're fine with Devil too, you could do Devilish Game Development. It seems that a software maker already has that one though.
I was thinking Devle's (Devilish) Development Studio, but Studio 2D and 3D are taken. Studio 4D is too actually... Good news is that Studio 3D seems to be more about dance; I couldn't find any company in the development industry under Studio 3D. You could still snag that name for game development (look at Dove chocolate and Dove shampoo). If you don't want 'Studio' for indie development, you have even more possibilities.

A few more ideas I have:

Bedevled Games / BeDevled Games
VauDevle Games / Vaudevillian Games (If your name were Ian, you could be VauDevleIan Games)

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Devled Egg Games

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I have a lot of suggestions, I actually have a whole trello board full of these kinds of things here's a couple of them - it's quite a mix

• Unelected

• Wisp

• Moonquake

• Like with pie

• Ordinary days

• This Works

• Twice a year

• No ambition

• Death cult

• Continuous Thunder

• Subject of interest

• Hate his friends

• Product of habit

• By chance

• Urge to purge

• Barely awake

• Ok fine

• Whatever

• Proud of you

• Flight of the dreamer

And if you want something random (and pronouncable) pick any of the 200k words in https://live.koya.io/0x3642.json (you're basically guarenteed to get any domain you want with these)
Interesting ones:

• Noftentaghtulle

• Thuckat

• Ullunkusk

• Snazaphole

• Smucka

• Zeelo

• Urestorha Get it?

• Peumgufe

• Zoshu

• Spanilucka

• Gowollese

• Snuckante

• Smispibposing

Also from that list these are the words beginning with "Dev"

• Devin

• Devake

• Deviffond

• Devangepusk

And if you don't mind borrowing song titles, may I recommend

• Mephisto's Café

It could use other colors of course; I just used HTML color names because I was too lazy to get color codes

May I recommend https://color.koya.io/ (it's kinda broken, HEX works fine, RGB doesn't - been meaning to remake this)

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Re: Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

I made a logo concept. (Ignore the skewed-ness, I'm not very good at art. I just wanted to explore the concept).

(The colours also aren't finalised).

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Re: Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

I made a logo concept. (Ignore the skewed-ness, I'm not very good at art. I just wanted to explore the concept).

https://i.imgur.com/QASgJuc.png

(The colours also aren't finalised).

That is a pretty, original art with original brand title. I like it! even with that art condition. If it gets improved, would get better.

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Re: Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

why levels if oyu make games?

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Raphe9000

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Re: Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

why levels if oyu make games?

What do games contain?

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Re: Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

why levels if oyu make games?

What do games contain?

rooms? worlds? realms? dimensions? i give up tell me!

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Re: Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

why levels if oyu make games?

What do games contain?

rooms? worlds? realms? dimensions? i give up tell me!

It's easy dude... They contain areas!

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Re: Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

1. Is college and uni the same thing, or are you referring to two different things?
2. I am sorry for how many times I must had misspelled your username. It is the first time I notice it's Devle.

I like Elved Studio btw.

Good luck!

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Re: Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

1. Is college and uni the same thing, or are you referring to two different things?

In England, high school lasts until you're 16. You then go to college for 2 years (this is compulsory but you choose what course or courses you study - though there are alternatives to college). Then after that you can choose to go to university if you want to. College is completely free as long as you are 18 or younger when you start the academic year but if you want to stay in college for longer then you have to pay. University is quite costly, £9000 a year for most courses. But the loans they give you to handle that are actually really good because they're not really considered to be a debt by any companies and you only have to pay it back if you're earning over a certain amount of money each year (it equates to just a higher tax for going to Uni in my opinion).

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Re: Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

I made a logo concept. (Ignore the skewed-ness, I'm not very good at art. I just wanted to explore the concept).

https://i.imgur.com/QASgJuc.png

(The colours also aren't finalised).

Nice idea but it is way too big and asymetrical and the split colours don't work
Keep it simple and concise

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Re: Indie Brand [Serious replies only please]

So at this point, I've pretty much settled on my brand name being Devlevels. So now, I'm looking more into finalising my logo. I plan to pay someone to make a professional version later down the line, but for now I want to create something that is passable myself.

This is what I've created so far:

Obviously, there are a great many flaws with it at the moment and it's far from finished. But before I continue working on it, I want to get some feedback to help direct where I go from here with it.

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Hold up; is “devle” meant to be pronounced “devil”??

Because if so, there might be a significant fraction who never realise, and just think it’s weird.

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