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.
You’ll make a certain real civil engineer upset by naming it architect and then having a engineer on the front. :)
Nation Engineer gets you away from some of the genetic architect slop (which often follows a successful game) and maybe draws a YouTuber into playing it.
Good luck with your game!
Very good ideas and information, thank you.
Infrastruction or Infrastructor?
So, I think I’m choosing Infrastruction.
Hope it works well - best of luck with the project!
Thank you.
deleted by creator
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
deleted by creator
Infrastruction or Infrastructor?
oh my.
Sounds more like a Civil Engineer than architect - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel who built countless bridges, railways, ships, tunnels etc…
Birth of a Nation, Fledgling NationEdit: kind soul pointed out the shitty connotations of Birth of a Nation, definitely do not call it that!
Jeff
Jeffland?
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. >
How about …
Masterplan Nation
Build of Nations
‘Architectcracy.’ Which is more or less, “rule by architects.”
That would be architectcrazy.
National Architect?
State Architect
deleted by creator
AI Slop Architect?
Architects 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}