EDIT6: Due to Steam needing an email from me so that I could get a new link, I decided it’s not worth the hassle to change its name (Keeping the name polled high anyway).
EDIT5: yolo, Infrastruction it is.
Thank you @MurrayL@lemmy.world and everyone.
Thank you for all the ideas! Shoutout to “pussy eaters republic”.
EDIT: added non-twitter poll link
Since my game is not (only) about villages, but building up an entire nation, I thought of changing the title to make it more appropriate.
“Nation Architect” and “Sovereign Architect” and “Sovereign Roads” are the other ideas.
Game concept: You play as a country leader, tasked with building up a country (either immortal president, or some form of AI). You will need to plan roads and factories, then launch bidding process to see your blueprints get built. You will manage “teams”, which are generated by towns at certain milestones, specialize them and buy them vehicles. Eventually, relations with other countries will come into play as well.
A single badly-planned highway bridge is enough to bankrupt you, like irl for weaker economies.
Link to the name change poll:
The game (pre-demo prototype in the works):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4136240/Country_Architect/
If you have other suggestions, I’d love to hear them as well.
Infrastruction or Infrastructor?
So, I think I’m choosing Infrastruction.
Ooh, I like this
Edit: I think part of why I like it is that it’s evocative of both “construction” and “destruction”, and civil engineering necessarily involves aspects of both. Like, even when there isn’t existing infrastructure to demolish, there’ll still be tasks such as digging into the ground to anchor support structures, which I could consider to be a kind of destruction
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Hope it works well - best of luck with the project!
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Thank you.
Infrastruction or Infrastructor?
oh my.
I don’t like anything with ‘sovereign’ in it because it makes me think of the Sovereign Individual and the big tech people preaching it.
I’d probably think of Jargon of the industry, words, phrases, etc. that people use who work all that infrastructure stuff at the core of your game. And then hope they inspire something. Some games that make think of this, for example: Tropico, Anno, Satisfactory
Check out the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and think of that instead the next time.
An Architect?
Shame
Shame
Shame
not that kind of architect 😓
AI Slop Architect?
It sounds very infrastructure/trade based than politics, so I’d stay away from nation/country terms. Regional Planning would be a generic term for the infrastructure piece, could use Commerce if trade is important. >
Jeff
Jeffland?
‘Architectcracy.’ Which is more or less, “rule by architects.”
That would be architectcrazy.
How about …
Masterplan Nation
Build of Nations
Birth of a Nation, Fledgling NationEdit: kind soul pointed out the shitty connotations of Birth of a Nation, definitely do not call it that!
Birth of a Nation is also the name of a well known film which is notorious for containing racist stereotypes and portraying white supremacists as heroes. Fledgling Nation is good though.
Oooofff, thanks for pointing that out!! Yikes - Birth of a Nation, dead in the water, terrible suggestion, strike it from the record, definitely don’t use that.
That film straight up resurrected KKK, which was dead by then, and invented cross-burning.
*Dear Leader
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Nation Building
AuthorityAustraliaArchitects don’t design countries. Town planners or Master planners do…
Technically those don’t design countries either. They just tell people where what is allowed to be build.
Actually, we are kinda looping back to architects do design countries. Puzzle piece by puzzle piece.
This kinda convinced me to stay with Country Architect (for now). It seems like no matter what I pick, there will be some downside, people telling me about (very valid) concerns about legibility, clarity, accuracy and whatnot.
Also, someone said there are terms such as “the architect of this or that idea, concept, big thing”, that is basically synonymous with “creator”. That’s what I was going for anyway.
![Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of ["Infrastruction" it is.]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e9c4ecc9-9e7f-4a91-a28d-66cf5b69c941.png){kind=link}