How dud everyone get their company names??
goliath
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Hey guys, this may be off topic a little but how did everyone get their company names? Once I finally get a few games under my belt, I plan on switching to a company name (i already have 1 in mind) so I was wondering where everyone came up with theirs..
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Ok so i wanted to set up a market stall selling PS1 games a good few years back now
I was sitting in the bath with a dictionary looking for inspiration got fed up closed my eyes flicked through got a pen stabbed it at the dictionary and opened my eyes and there was Utopian whala Utopian Games was formed.
I went on to have 2 market stalls then a shop selling games and enjoyed the business for several years then i got into developing and never looked back
Darren.
Originally I started making a Virtua Racing clone in Unity. It was an old-school non-textured Polygon racer. I was intended to do a bunch of retro styled polygon games. POLYGAMe is a mix of polygon and game and also a bit of a play on words... the small e means it can be pronounced "polygamy". HAHAHAHA. I thought it was funny and it has stuck ;-)
Innybin games.
I'll share mine.. P-o-m, when I was about 11 years old I started to perform in magic shows, by the time I was 14 I already had a professional magic show with actors and pretty womans and smoke and mirrors and all this stuff.. So p-o-m stands for :
Prince of magic - that's how they used to call me then.. Resently I just came up with the idea of p-o-m : Potential money. Haha
That's my company name story
I needed to first discover what the app store and games are really about, I mean we know what it does but I wanted to know it from a metaphysical point of view. I locked myself in a room with no windows and only a pencil, this allowed my thoughts to flow uninterrupted as I scribbled all over the walls. After this I felt somewhat disappointed as the company name still wasn't there. With this feeling of unease I took a long walk at night along a quiet beach, the sound of the waves lapping the shore started the seed of a thought in my mind. I ran naked into the water and that is when it finally came to me.
I took the product, the thing that I would be creating. APPS! With this I gave it something personal, the most personal thing I could give it. My name. The result... StusApps
It was quite a journey but in the end it was worth it.
**Alternatively, it could have been the first and easiest thing in my mind. Which I now regret as it is lacking thought, originality or any kind of interesting features. But I like the first story more.**
It took me a couple of days to figure it out, but "Beansprites" popped in my head, as it's a play on the word, "BeanSprouts."
There you have it!
"AppSolute Entertainment" was born Apple told me i could change to business profile from individual. I was bitching about having to get a business license. They said i could setup as an individual account and then when i had proper paper work for them i could change. I never did it though i just waited a few extra days for my license.
Where most people rely on their gadgets, I think it's supposed to be the other way around. While technology has it's good points, there's a very deep and dark side, as we've all seen in the news this past week about the 18-year-old Rutgers student who committed suicide when his supposedly trusted roommate broadcasted his sexual encounter and revealed his yet private sexual orientation over the internet.
We as a people should need to go "beyond the technology" and remember what we were doing all this for. It's supposed to help us to go "beyond yourself," to better ourselves, and not trap us into living trivial, meaningless lives.
We invented the wheel so we can move things faster. We invented the refrigerator to make our food last longer. We invented the telephone and now the videophone to communicate better over long distances. We invented the internet to bring us closer together. But what has the rest of the world done with it?
It kinda disgusts me all these stupid reality TV shows (so much that I'd rather watch infomercials), people Twittering about taking a dump or eating a salad, bickering and comparing their lives against long-lost friends they've "reunited" with over Facebook, and spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on virtual farms, animals, weapons, avatars, etc. Granted, we cater to some of these audiences sometimes, so it's a fine line we have to walk.
Maybe I'm dreaming of that Star Trek / 23rd-century utopia, maybe I'm just bitter about how they way the world and our generation is evolving, maybe it's because I haven't toked up since 1995, maybe I've been lost after 9/11. Whatever it is, we need to start making some serious changes and go "beyond."
Back in my 2nd year of uni back in 2001. I had a full size storm-trooper cardboard cut out that was in my uni room. Everyone used to dress it up with Afro wigs and flowery necklaces, hang a supersoaker3000 over its shoulders, stick cigarettes in its mouth etc etc..He was (and still is called Stormy). Though he is currently living flat packed some where in our house.
So when coming up with a name for my first bit of freelance work, stormygraphics was used...and then I moved house and had a spare room. Still working freelance at the time, I made a sign for the door and called it stormystudio....
for ages I had the free domain name: (still works)
http://www.stormygraphics.freeuk.com/
Then when I started doing a website for apps, only this year, I bought
www.stormystudio.com
However, I'm thinking of switching it to "wolfflow Media/Enterainment/Studio" or something like that. I like the palindrome effect on my name...
Robots vs. Wizards http://www.robotsvswizards.com
I really used to like my name and purchased the domain about a year and a half ago.
I came up with it a couple years ago and was gonna make some shirts on the side. This was before i got into making games.