Community Help choose the The New World's new title

[daveyd]

Mayflower 2 or Mayflower 2xxx (whatever year this is supposed to take place).

 

[Atrachasis]

One more vote in support of "East of Earth".

Alternatively, to keep with the "Pilgrims" theme: "Pilgrims from a distant world"?

 

[Volrath]

Starfarer sounds fucking gay.

 

[Latelistener]

Maybe you should get a better name for the ship and then name the game after that ship.

As I mull this, I would throw out a possible alternative name to Starfarer for the ship: Leviathan.

Leviathan's Journey

Or maybe something from the game's lore, like Mass Effect or Altered Carbon.

 

[Rinslin Merwind]

And ofc shitload people started spewing "funny" and unoriginal names in attempts to gather ratings. How pathetic.
Anyway my thoughts about name of game:
Ark of the Damned
Strangers in The Void
Pilgrims to a distant world
Wanderers among the stars

East of Earth sound nice too, but there some possibility that critics will be making shitty pans about it.

Name for ship: Salvation

 

[tindrli]

"Wanderers among the stars" this one is great

 

[Gylfi.Fenriz.Conquests]

"Wanderers among the stars" this one is great

not much of a game name, though

 

[hello friend]

Salvation is actually a pretty good ship name, lore-wise.

 

[4too]

Depth Sounding: Mark Twain


My thoughts floated / streamed to Mark Twain’s “Innocents Abroad” , a title that may be public DOM. enough … if not, consider the panache / élan of Vault Dweller negotiating with the ‘Samuel Clemens’ CORPORATE CLUSTER INC.
Then behoid ...

I think you should consider a title with the word "Bound" in it. Bound for a place, bound together, stuck within the bounds of the ship. Also the idea of a leap (of faith, of science). Plus a hint of the hope and excitement that was contained in the idea of a "new" world. …

But God Damn, BOUND has a resonance, a language lover’s pernicious punning, a coat of many - meanings (for all us prodical SOB's), I can never deny / refuse.

I ping / riff off Ismaul’s sound founding … with a hint for the literary, (love that Twain in these darker daze - AIN’T PC )

INNOCENTS BOUND is my suggestion.


4too

 

[Latelistener]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/243930/Bound_By_Flame/

 

[iguana_trader]

I shall try with another batch of propositions, maybe of use:
Ascendence
Dominion
Faith Nomads
A New Dominion

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Ten generations away from Earth

 

[Life of the Party]

Ascendence

 

[hello friend]

Someone here suggested Generation, that was pretty good.

For search engine optimisation, 10th Generation could be an option, while also evoking biblical lore and how after a few generations people inevitably fuck shit up for everyone. That's the plot of the game right there.

 

[Ainamacar]

There are some existing titles incorporating it, but the word "dominion" can carry a religious connotation in the right context without demanding it the way "pilgrim" does. Also a good name for the ship.

Dominion's Children
Dominion's Bastards

The big naming conflicts are the card game, the strategy series "Dominions", and an old RTS "Dominion: Storm over Gift 3." Might be possible to work around with word order, e.g. Children of Dominion.


Inherit the Void
Works literally, and the reference to Inherit the Wind works both as a biblical allusion and the religious conflict embedded in the play. Only conflict I found was an album by a Finnish metal band.

 

[Jrpgfan]

I think someone ITT suggested Between Two Suns and Between Past and Future. Those are pretty good names IMO

 

[Ainamacar]

Someone here suggested Generation, that was pretty good.

For search engine optimisation, 10th Generation could be an option, while also evoking biblical lore and how after a few generations people inevitably fuck shit up for everyone. That's the plot of the game right there.

The Biblical genealogies are sometimes called things like "The Generations of Noah." Given an important figure in the lore with a catchy name maybe "Generations of ThatGuy"? Or use the ship itself. "Generations of the Starfarer" is clunky, though.

 

[Viata]

Just call it Space Odyssey. Or Odyssey in Gray(or the ship color) to avoid some lawsuits.
Since the ship is moving away from the Earth, Redshift would be a nice name, but then there is Amazon Redshift.
Stellar Association has a nice meaning in astronomy that kinda works here, since the origin of all the people in the ship is the Earth and they are all "moving" together through space.
Anyway, an one word name would be the best, but quite hard to find.

 

[Saduj]

Timelapse Vertigo
Van Buren
No Truce With The Furies

 

[HeatEXTEND]

Age of Decadence II

 

[Cynicus]

Pilgrims Across the Dark Expanse
Pilgrim's Passage
God's Flock and the Sea of Stars
Prayers in the Dark
Salvation's Reach

I Have No Bible and I Must Thump
Space Quakers in Trouble
A Fistful of Psalms
Ah Crap, We Forgot the Pope
It Sure Is Dark Out Here

 

[Pentagon]

Feet of Clay (Daniel 2:31-35)
Age of Clay
Iron and Clay
A Ship of Clay
A Ship of Iron and Clay
Spacefarer: A Ship of Iron and Clay

 

[daveyd]

Someone on ITS forums suggested "The Promised Land" which I rather liked... And apparently, going by the concept art it's the name of a fine establishment.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Unpromised Land

 

[CyberWhale]

Parable of the Lost Ship