I think this goes here because using a company name is a way to help distribute games (like if people like a game, they might look at other games from that company)...


How do people come up with names for their game "companies"? I want to tag my games with a company name, but I can't think of anything. Where do people get their ideas from?

From a group of friends all happening to find that they like the same object and mental images. In my team's case, it was wolves and a shadow of one silhouetted against the sky. Yup. So, we got NightWolf Gaming. Name has stuck since sixth grade, which is like six years.

With some of my more private projects, I use my initials, or I seriously go: "A creation by Joshua N Boren."

Expand. If it sounds lame, then it has a chance of being cool.

Seriously, what kind of name is EA or Blizzard?

Mine (SD Games) is my initials and then "Games". Very creative, I know...

lol thats funny,

I dont have a company name but it might be prettycool to have a compeny, really cool if a GAMEING COMPENY hehe *gets happy*

My future company name is Simple Games!! I got my idea because my games are simple!! GET IT!! LOL

yeah i get it...umm yea for sure hahaha

*whispers to the guy next to me* what is he talking about *whispers to the guy next to him*

Yeah, I agree with stinkoman, my "company" name (CV Games) is just plain and simple, sometimes I'll even use my full name like "Chris Vergilio Games". I had an old one, "Ninx Ltd." It didn't work to well....
hahaha

I got mine because, after rigourous thinking, my friends thought of Rebel Games. It sounds pretty cool!

Try to think of random things, that helps. I can think of something random now--Burnt rubber games. lol It's easy when you get random.

The best thing to do is make a name, then google it and search the web...if no one has it, then you can use it for yourself, otherwise pick a different name. These companies that people have mentioned aren't really companies at all but rather they "said" it was....making a real company requires trademarking the name and symbol, in order to that, you cannot have the same as another real company (hence the searching you should do). If you don't get the trademarking, then if it's a good name, you may lose it to someone who does....and if you accidentally front a true company, you might get into legal trouble.

If you don't get it trademarked, I suggest you just pick something random and garbage (that you are willing to throw away)...wait until you have a real company trademarked and then just re-sign all your games under it.

I know that they'r not real companies. That's why I said "companies". Anyway, people can stop posting. My company name is now Laughing Dog Games (LDG).

Good idea for a name!

Callisto Productions was created as a reference to my username, which is based off of the name of an impact crater on a moon called Callisto, which orbits Jupiter I think. The crater is called Valhalla.

-Tv

EA stands for Electronic Arts, though you have a good point.

Mine is Boisseau Games, which is just my last name and "games". "NAME+GAMES=WIN" Although, I more frequently brand things with "REIG" or "Reigalius" because its more unique (turns out it a wookie character or something... never would've guessed... I just made it up for one of my old RPGVX characters lol)

Coming up with a good game "company" name is hard.
I made few games together with a friend of mine, and we made up the "company" name with our name initials + "games". So we got "PC Games". Now it seems kind of a lame idea.

I've had many others in my mind too, but they failed even more.

Lol, what a coincedence that your name initials make PC.

Lol hahaha PC games very strange, IF you ever get really big and come out on another console will you make it. PS6 Games

I don't really have a "company" name at the moment, but lately I've been thinking of using "IMPerfect Productions". Simply because my signature (based on my username) is IMP, which reminds me of "imperfect".

Just come up with something that sounds good.

Laughing Dog is interesting.

-IMP

Actually, you can found a company here and now (at least in the UK) and you don't even have to tell anyone to make it official. Of course, unless you trademark it you could lose the name to somebody else, but trademarking isn't actually a legal requirement to call something a company.

I think it's pretty pointless having a company unless you're commercial, though, so in my current game I'm just calling the people working on it the Feudal Dev Team. (Feudal being the name of the game in question)

If you do want a company name, try and think of something catchy, and preferably relevant. But catchy takes priority.

I plan on just using my name, and it will become a brand similar to as if it were from a company (Though, I am making programs, not games.)

If worse comes to worse, just use your name, then add Games or something to the end. You'll get props for being an indie developer.

mine = randomman159 productions



Randomman159 = my username on all the internet things i am part of (lol i registered for youtube ages ago with it and can't remember the email adress or the password i used)

Productons = i dunno?!??!!?!?!??!?!

Mine, which is Phoenix Flame Studios, was given the name from the first game I've designed which was Phoenix Flame. It was like a Shenmue-esque game. I'll get around to creating that game after my current project is finished.

My company name "Chees-E Ink." was completely a pun. Originally I planned to make not-so-serious media, which is why I used a name suggesting that the work was cheesy and the "Ink." part is a pun of "inc." (the originaly logo had a spilled ink jar)

Mine is C-O-G Productions, and, as you have guessed, C-O-G is short for my user name(commander of games). Productions, well, I am sure everyone knows what that means...

Mine(2D Game Makers) came as a company name because 2D games are the easiest to make. Also I like to do stuff for free so I used this and my website to distribute free 2D(and sometimes 3D) games. So far I don't have any games on my site(because i switched hosts). lol. But i'm making a 3D online multiplayer first person shooter last man standing type game. And the walls are appearing as a background.

epic Creations. It's my name as a musician and if I ever make anything useful with GM, it'll be for the games.
epic Creations

http://www.epiccreations.co.uk/
I would be careful with your name.

Roket Enterprises, because Roket Productions is a too similar name as another company to be on the Australian Business Register (and yes, Roket Enterprises is a legally registered company in Australia).

Take the following as an example:

http://www.vertigo-games.com/Pages/About.html

http://www.vertigogaming.net/

If you're really interested in company and product names in terms of branding, do a marketing course. There's a lot of research done on branding and it's pretty interesting.

If you just want to come up with a name, just ask your friends, give it some time, think of something personal or in relation to the type of games you're creating. Though if you can't even come up with a name for your company, I don't understand how your company could be successful, seeing as creativity is one of the cornerstones of game development.

Also, realize it's not actually a company, you're probably referring to trying to find a name for your game development team, which can consist of just you yourself.

Yeah... Not sure what I'm going to do about that. Maybe I should get it trademarked (if it isn't already). I'm going to get an actual domain soon, anyways, and so it'd be good to do that beforehand.

I have North-See (check my sig). I make, and distribute my own games and other peoples (on special occasion). I came up with North, my middle name, then added see to it. Because I was all into the visual arts so I wanted something that sounded visual. Then came the time where I had to ad the hyphen in the middle because the web name was taken without it. And that is how I got http://north-see.com

There are lot's of ways to come up with good company names.
Just thinking of random words and adding STUDIOS, GAMES, PRODUCTIONS, or SOFTWARE after the word.
Virus Productions
Mayhem Games
Fat Lady Singing Studios

All of those I came up with within 4 or 5 minutes.

I normally just come up with something realted to computing. like, a megabyte is a unit of memory. Also, mega, is another way of saying cool. I like it. Two sylabuls (spelling) and the 'games' at the end works quit well.

ByteAlity Productions is a name I thought of years before I even knew Game Maker, as soon as I started making stuff in BASIC I wanted to give it a name and ByteAlity was the first I came up with. It's supposed to be a portmanteau of "byte", standing for the fact that it's about digital stuff, and "vitality" meaning that it's somehow good (). Productions is chosen because it's broader than just games. The problem with the name is that it's quitre easy to pronounce the wrong way, but it should really be pronounced like "byte" + "ality". Well, surely it's not a name already in use.

Daym. Is your office located in Las Vegas?

Make it easy to remember, unique to avoid confusion and getting top-spots in search engines. Something that will work with your, work.
For example, look at id's name, I'm pretty sure it suites there common-style of games. Raven Software, a dark name to for someone who generally makes dark-ish but graphically awesome games.
Epic Games, because there games are epic

My "company" name is Instant Arts. Because, I thought of it was I was 10 (almost 6 years ago) and went with it. It's instant and it's really good

Writing down a list is always good, then reading over it, combining names is always fun.

been thinking of a name for 2 years, can't find any good ones.

For me, a name has to be 6 things:

Original

Meaningful

Catchy

Something that would make people excited about the product

Not anything with a inappropriate double meaning.

Flexible, eg "Bloodbath games" or "Rainbow software" would not work, even if we planned on making gory games.

Our team/company name is "Plasmide Games"

At first it was "Plasmzorg Games" as a joke but then we changed it to something bit more serious Also, i got an idea of a really cool logo with all kinds of plasma types of swirls and things, so we took that as our team name. Also it wasnt already taken so it was really good.
We are releasing our first commercial game early next year The price is going to be around 2-5 dollars for the registration key for the full version... Its a really high quality TDS

www.plasmide-games.tk
Bah... I know but we are getting our domaing pretty soon

Zezuken Games (or Studios)

Pretty much randomly made up, don't plan on having it get too well known too soon though.

My company name is "Mud & C.O Interactive Studios"
I got the idea from my character "Mudman"
You could use your best character as a company name...like "Duckie team" or "Duckmen" or soething like that!
Else you can make a simple name like "Stardust" or "Swimming pool games" hope i helped!

Well my company name has been blackhawk down games for about a year now. Im thinking of changing it to blackhawk games. It sounds shorter and better to me. Anyone have an oppinion on that?

My company name is 'orange08 games'

Here's how it happened:
When I joined this forum I named myself orange08 because I liked oranges and it was the year 2008.
Then I saw how other people made themselves out to be companies by naming themselves things like Daman productions or Blachrat studios.
So I named my company 'orange08 games'

Clever, eh?

Maybe u should try to make a company name by making letters that stand for something. My company name is Cogex. This stands for COmputer Gaming EXperts. (I not really an expert,but it just sounds cool...)

I was going to leave this topic alone but the more member/company names I see around here the harder it is to ignore..

-please, FOR THE SAKE OF FLYING MONKEYS look up your name in the urban dictionary just to make sure it isn't a racial slur (I have seen on here) or slang for some body part (yep seen that too)

-If you are going for a totally epic sounding name please please don't make it rhyme with butt or farts (seen that too)

-Be careful if you share your name with a song or movie or something. At least make sure it doesn't conjure up bad Celine Dion lyrics or corny acting.

i named mine A Games it was the first thing that popped into my head but i might change it because i have a couple of more people working with me but if we do i'm not sure what it would be called but i dont know ive been using the name ever since i started to make games

I use Ante Entertainment because it's a subtle pun. The word Ante literally means before, so my company name literally means Before Entertainment. I thought it was funny in sixth grade and it has grown on me over the years.

Right now I have Absolute Zero but I don't know if I like it. For me thinking of them starts with thinking about a logo or intro video.

I've been trying to think of a company name but since it's just me in my "team", I'm just gonna leave it "Riley McLaren Productions" or something along those lines.

Neo Generation Games, because 'neo-' means new, and generation meaning... generation...
Dont put .inc or incorporated, people get into legal problems like that.