Title: Game Design Challenge: Rename Katamari Damacy
vix - June 8, 2008 11:24 PM (GMT)
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| Game Design Challenge: Rename Katamari Damacy[06.04.08] - GameCareerGuide.com staff GameCareerGuide.com's Game Design Challenge is an exercise in becoming a game developer, asking you to look at games in a new way -- from the perspective of a game creator, producer, marketer, businessperson, and so forth. Each week, we'll propose a design question. You'll have one week to answer it (see below for how to submit your answers). The following week, the best answers and the names of those who submitted them will be posted along with some commentary.  The Challenge Rename Katamari Damacy. Assignment Details It's spring, 2004, and you're working for Namco. The company has recently released a new game to Japanese game players called, roughly, Katamari Damashii, and is now in the stages of planning its Western release. Namco has decided it wants a new English title for the North American version of the game -- and the job falls to you. Come up with a new English name for the game and in 200 words or less, explain your choice and persuade the company to use it. Think up with something snappy that will appease the localization department, designers, and artists, who will likely create new cover art to accommodates the new title. To Submit Send your answers to gamecareerguide@gmail.com with the subject line "Design Challenge: Rename Katamari." |
Duckie - June 11, 2008 06:44 PM (GMT)
I don't think I could come up with a good name for katamari after the fact. It's an interesting thing to think about though. Maybe I'll come up with something.
waxc3 - June 12, 2008 11:19 AM (GMT)
without an odd japaneseish sounding name it would not work ya know?