It's also a game based mostly/fully underground. We should make that concrete right off the bat, or else people will be making stuff for above/below ground stuff, when we only need underground stuff.

Umm, we were just saying in the other thread that it wasn't entirely underground.

well, it's called beloh. kinda says what it is about right off the bat. maybe the main charector is trying to get outside? like chell?

"Journey Below" no longer gets my vote. I think it's really generic. Also "Beloh" doesn't sound that bad if it describes a person or a place, not just us trying to be "deep" with Latin meanings.

I think most of us (or at least me and AP) were leaning towards "Chthonic", if we decided against "Beloh". I mean, chthonic is a real word, with a relevant meaning, but nobody's heard of it and it looks cool.

Oh yeah, I forgot about Chthonic.

JOURNEY TO THE CHTHONIC BELOH LOWER BELOW LAND!

My two cents is "Chthonic" sounds like a adjective to me for some reason. But it does look cool.

It is.

But we can use a substantive. After all, "below" is a preposition.

I do like "journey to the chthonic beloh lower below land" as well. Anyone else want to use that?

Yeah, there's no big deal with Cthonic being an adjective. If you want we could add on a noun, but there's no real need.

Chthonic Depths? Or something like that. I don't know, just brainstorming

Chthonic*

About that word, it mainly refers to that of the underworld. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chthonic.

I got the word from a dictionary (specifically WordWeb) where it says:

So yeah. By the way, I think "Chthonic Depths" sounds OK.

I was talking about the origin of the word. The current meaning might have been broadened.

I'm not really for "Chthonic Depths". It doesn't get my vote.

Ah, OK

No "Chthonic Depths"? Well, I think "Chthonic" by itself is all right anyway. If we come up with a better idea we can use that, but I don't think it's necessary.

WELL IT HAS MY VOTE. XD

What do you not like about it, Red?

All of those consonants together in one part of the word. It's difficult to say, especially for somebody who's native language isn't English. I'm guessing that people who play the game won't have any clue on how to pronounce its title.

That's the only problem. We could promote the pronunciation though (like writing it in brackets after the title in descriptions), and in trailers or interviews (if those happen) people would hear how it's pronounced.
Some people will also Google the word, which will probably yield the definition + pronunciation. So I don't think it's too much of a problem.

Or people will just call it "Cthulhu depths" or something, because they won't know how to pronounce it.

Eh, close enough XD
But anyways, we should "concrete" (so to speak) the title, so we have something to work off. If the title goes from "Chthonic Depths" to "The World Above" that changes the style of game completely

In order for something to be considered concrete (and added to the list) there should be very little doubt or none at all.

I doubt the success of that title.

Well we should say if we decide on "Chthonic" in the title at all. Personally I don't think pronunciation is a big issue, most people will read or write it more than say it anyway.

It may not be perfect, but hey, it's just a working title. World of Goo was called "Tower of Goo" for quite a long time before they changed the name.

hey red, maybe at the top you can list all the concrete things we have decided.
Chthonic sounds okay, and so does Beloh, but if it came down, i'd choose Chthonic.
is it "kuh-thon-ick"?

I think its (chuh-thon-ick)

It's actually just "tho-nik", the "ch" is silent. As I said that's the only reason I wouldn't choose it, since the pronunciation isn't obvious, but I don't think it's that big a deal.

Hey MOM, it's not a veto. I'm definitely not in charge here. It's just my personal opinion that the game name should be something flexible, as we may change our minds. I meant for this thread to be a list of things we definitely wouldn't change later on.

I put in the bit about the word "Chthonic". It doesn't sound like too bad a word, actually. Definitely some level of creativity there.

The full name isn't something we have to worry about too much for now. Let's focus on gameplay and story. We still need some form of story boarding to occur.

I'm working on it.

*hardly working on it, wrestling with own mind to try and stop procrastinating*

Seriously though, once I get started it'll be smooth writing from there. I just have a few things to finish off first.