I have a co-op game about recycling or to be more precise about cleaning up the trash in a park and then recycling it. The working title is TRASH but I don’t think that’s the best possible name for it. Unfortunately im coming up blank on any better ideas.
Anybody want to give it a go?
Litter Brigade? Don't Trash It? Green Up Central Park? Clean Up Central Park?
Are there any mechanisms that you want to highlight?
TRASH, SHART, HSART, Something like recycling the name, or RE-TRASH, something like that.
Recycling the word trash is clever but no one will get it.
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Since "trash" gives off such a negative vibe, using a synonym of trash, with a lesser negative connotation, might help. "Refuse," for example, has a nice sound to it, probably would be mispronounced as the verb however.
A lot of this will depend on the audience for the game though. What's the target age group of said game?
The Clean Team
Pick-up and De-litter
Race to Recycle
The Recyclers
The Reclaimers
Thy Brother's Cleaner
The Litter Legion
Refuse Refusal
Pitch In!
Go Green
Reduce Refuse Recycle
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
Rubbish
R^3 (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)
- (The first part should be "R" with a superscripted "3".)
Please Don't Litter
Tidy Trash
{Pick a famous park's name – ideally one that has a trash problem – and use that.}
Litter Busters!
Trash to Treasure
Litter to Lucre
- (Now I'm just being silly)
Litter Looters
One Man's Trash...
Give a Hoot
- (This may allude too strongly to what may be a trademarked phrase.)
Civic Pride
Civic Duty
Cleanup Crew
{C-name}'s Cleanup Crew
- ex: Casey's Cleanup Crew
A lot of this will depend on the audience for the game though. What's the target age group of said game?
Eco
Green Up
A lot of this will depend on the audience for the game though. What's the target age group of said game?
The game is targeted to a family audience with an age group of 8+.
Generally I like to follow these rules for titles. I don't remember where I got this (it is more specifically for book titles but, I think some of these rules apply to games too). So, here are the 14 rules to never break with your title:
The Faux Poetic but Authentically Meaningless title (“Hunt the Mist Slowly”)
The Purely Descriptive title (“One Early Morning in Topeka at Dawn”)
The Lofty Abstraction, a.k.a. the Bad Kundera (“The Lonely Shackles of Mortality”)
The Hardy Boys Special (“The Hike from Hell”)
The Grammatically Complete Sentence (“Gladys Pemberton Strikes It Rich”)
The Inspirational Cliché (“Dreams of Rebirth”)
The Uninspirational Cliché (“Losing My Marbles”)
The Alliterative Tongue Twister (“Peripatetic Papa”)
The Allusion to Another, Much More Famous Work of Literature (“The Story of Christ”)
The It-Doesn’t-Get-Any-Cuter-Than-This (“Runaway Grandma”)
The Melodramatic Image (“Blood Dries Brown”)
The My-Life-Changed-Unexpectedly-and-I’m-Going-to-Tell-You-About-It (“Epiphany in a Tattoo Parlor”)
The Bad McSweeney (“How We Lie to the Moon, and How the Moon Lies to Us”)
The Scratch ‘n Sniff, a.k.a. But-It-Will-Make-Such-a-Lovely-Cover-Someday (“In the Valley of the Gardenia Blossoms”)
Your title "TRASH" doesn't really break these rules, however your graphic designer will need to do some cool stuff (or magic) in order to make people want to buy trash. You might want to look into ecological methods of production too, just to be consistent with your ideals.
Regards,
Matthew Kiehl
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No need to mention mechanics and I doubt I’ll specify a given park.
thanks for your input.