Company name opinion. Thank you.

Pandoras Game Box +2

Dream Golem has a very manufactured feel to it; like a committee came up with it based on two buzzwords they heard were cool with the kids. Which makes sense, because it sounds like that was your process. It's very much like Penny Arcade's satire of ominous-sounding fantasy, the Realm of Shadowdark, which is haunted by Witchaloks, etc. The words "dream" and "golem" have nothing to do with one another and aren't evocative, particularly this far from Prague, where Golem is more associated with Tolkein than Rabbi Loewe.

I like Pandora and Atomic; they both showcase the idea that there's a lot packed into a small box. They both have this image of the box rumbling and bursting, ready to explode its exciting innards into the world.

Atomic Games also comes with a strong branding possibilty. Here in the States, anything "Atomic" carries an association of the 50's technolust. Think the Fallout computer games, the board games Rocketville and Rocket to Mars, classic cars with tails and jet-engine names, all chrome, fins, and power. A website that reveled in this 50's vibe would be very attractive and fits in with your idea of sleek euro-american hybrid games in small packages.

Name variations: Atomic Games, Atomic Game Company, Atomic Board Games, Atomic Boardgame Company (ABC! Maybe a bit too haha-clever though). Atomo Games and Atomizer Games are also possibilities. The logo, of course, is Bohr's model, with dice or pawns or something as electrons.

Pandora is also great. Although Pandora's Box wasn't filled with anything GOOD, the idea of her insatiable curiosity -- what IS in that box, anyway? -- is worth trading on. Going with a classical allusion also speaks to the rarity of your product line; each game is like a single unearthed treasure displayed at a museum, and the consumer is an archeologist.

Pandora Games (my favorite), Pandora Game Company, Pandora's Box Games (I don't like this one very much, the possessive singluar "Box" clashes with the plural "games"). Logos might involve urns, shattering vases, and generally "ancient greek" visual elements like hard lines and terra-cotta colors.

Also worth noting is that there's a very strong brand already with Pandora, which is Pandora.com, an internet radio company that picks music for you based on your preferences. So you'd be fighting that.

Along the lines of Cheapass Games' blunt honesty (which I really appreciate), you have ideas like Niche Games, MicroPublisher, Cottage Games, Apartment Game Company, Tabletop Publishers, Garage Games (alliterative!), or Tinyman Games.

Finally, may I suggest "Napoleanna"? A "Pollyanna" is a wide-eyed provincial, ready to see the best in anything, based on a literary character with that personality. Combined with the tiny-but-packed-a-punch french general with globe-spanning aspirations, you have a nifty pun that goes towards the heart of your company.

combine 'Ameritrash' and 'Eurogame', but then I realised 'Eurotrash' has another meaning.

is a chain of board game shops in Australia, but you should be able to register it in Europe.

Sleeping Giant?
Precipice?
Games: Unearthed!
Quantum Fusion

I personally like Sleeping Giant. If you don't use it I probably will. =)

-Darke

All good thoughts about the name game.

Garage Games is the company that produces the Torque video game engine, originally used in the Tribes games - I'm a big Tribes fan :)

I remember reading an article in OMNI Magazine (remember that?) way back when about the naming of Exxon. They wanted a name that sounded big and chemical, but had no real world meaning. They paid the guy $10K to come up with a name; the article claimed that at $2K per letter, it's one of the highest paid writing jobs ever.

(Sorry, that was a bit of a tangent...)

How about 26 Dreams? It's not in use...

DreamLab 26?