Gianni 2013-11-21 08:04:38

That's fucking horrifying. Excellent work. Although I can assure you that it'll no longer be a FEARLESS fantasy for me.

Gian90 2013-11-21 08:13:38

I really like your style-art, especially the character design.. brilliant and fresh!

squidly 2013-11-21 10:47:58

I honestly think you should change the name. It simply does not reflect the amount of work you put into it.

Doomroar 2013-11-21 19:58:37

Man the monsters are always way cooler than the adventurers, which is great but a little bit frustrating haha.

squidly 2013-11-21 20:15:34

Fearless Fantasy strikes me as absolutely generic, like one of those Brazillian shovelware games.

Doomroar 2013-11-21 23:01:34

Well the name of the game is indeed generic already, you have to recognize that, it doesn't really stand up.

I remember the gameplay trailer, so that is not generic, but the inventory, the heroes, that us just plainly conventional.

As for the monsters, dude i am loving those, again it maybe be just me, but humans will never be able to compare, they are humans after all the more average and common thing there is, you can't really do much with them, humans will be boring looking even with the most cool armor, if we put them next to one of the monster you have shown so far, they will end looking plane, and while i am at it, i don't really like their faces, but that is just me.

Lets see what Squidly has to say. But yeah i am loving the enemies!

squidly 2013-11-21 23:16:30

No I mean the NAME is generic!

But now that you mention it, except for the amazing quality of the game, it's not exactly breaking down RPG barriers but that's OKAY! Look at Epic Battle Fantasy, it works and it's not even remotely original :P

The brazillian shovelware games are what Tom was referring to in the censorship posts, just check through the portal on any given day. Bad grammar, muddied textures, static gameplay, etc.

squidly 2013-11-21 23:43:51

I mean, I know how the game is, I'll play it anyways.

However, it's a really unintresting name. You really, really, should change it. It's not just bad, it's really bad. Very hard to distinguish.

Imagine a virtual game shelf. You can buy one of these:

Fallout: New Vegas
Tales of Synphonia
Final Fantasy
Fearless Fantasy
Fantasy Star
Red Alert 3
The Last of Us

Almost missed it, right?

You need a stand out name. Even a small change of title, like Tales of Synphonia, makes it more stand out. My game was called Second Wind, despite the fact that it was possibly one of the worst names for google searching, it did stand out on the frontpage.

Think about what you want to emphasize.

Fallout - Post apocalpytic
The Last of Us - Loneliness
Limbo - Confusion
Worms World Party - Absurdity
Final Fantasy - Epic scale

So what do you want to emphasize?

squidly 2013-11-22 00:29:06

Well, your spelling just took a dip there.

I can't think of a name without any information about what this game really is all about.

What do you WANT to emphasize?

Take out a thesaurus and help yourself. One thing you definitely should not do is have "fantasy" anywhere in the title.

Words to also avoid:

Dragon
Quest
Fantasy
Magic

Emphasize what's DIFFERENT, not what's similar.

squidly 2013-11-22 11:12:26

The game RealFaction is talking about got 3rd on Pico Day and was made in a single day. Those who got the joke, such as Tom, loved it.

Look, I've seen too many generic names for non-generic games.

Think about Portal, perfect name. Emphasizes... portals.

I've never been a fan of the Kingdom Hearts name, but they don't need a good name, they've got all the marketing power in the world.

Doomroar 2013-11-22 19:00:46

Oh hold on man:
"2) Sci fi. there aint no magic up in here. z'all about science fiction"

But the name is called Fearless Fantasy, people will automatically lump it with things like Final Fantasy, plus is an RPG, so you are already giving a wrong impression to the public, is a deceitful name, haha. Oh man and now the Shovelware comparassion just hits hard, because you see people really don't like look a likes, they want originality, an example is the whole Dota, HoN, LoL, wars in which the 3 of them all are similar so the players are in a feud on which game was fisrt, which of course is DoTA, but as you can see people will blatantly ignore history just to give the they like a grade of originality.

As you see i myself don't find the tittle as anything exceptionally especial, and if it wasn't because i already know before hand about how good this is, i sincerely would skip it, just by name, you could say the game leaves a boring impression.

Man you don't have to pay us anything, we love the game, and if we can help avoid making a horrible mistake like, launching out with a name that people will forget, then is great.

RealFaction has a good point, you could name it after an element or concept that defines the story or gameplay in the game. I myself don't like the name Kingdom Hearts either, it only works because is backed by Square Enix and Disney, that means it's marketing power is huge, huge in stupid levels, so big that they cool name it something like "Fantastic Fantasy With Keys", and it would have worked.

So lets talk names examples:

Other than what Squidly said, there is also games like Fez, which is named after an element of the game.
There is The binding of Isaac, named after the main character, AND what he has to go through.
There is Faster Than Light named after an element and theme of the game, which also denotes the sci-fi of the story.

So i am sure there is a better name with more personality for this game.

When Squidly asked for more info on the game, i think (i will dare to speak for him) that he was talking about the story, no about a general theme, because we already know that you battle awesome monsters, and we know what methods we use to battle them, but we need more than just that, we need a plot.

In short we need a name that doesn't makes this sound like a fan art, just to not name it a shovelware hahaha, because is not.

Doomroar 2013-11-22 19:18:03

(Part 2)

As you can see we will need 2 things a name that connects the inner world of the game, as well as the general theme at the same time.

I sincerely don't know much of the first part other than you battle a lot of cool things, and that is more of the second part.

So the name will have to be daring, reckless, ambitious, so it wouldn't suffer what happened with Prehistorik, that game was the childhood of many, and the name was giving an idea of what it was about, but, 15 years after, 10 years after, even just 6 years after, no one was able to remember it, i re-encountered it just by pure luck, after years of dreaming about it, waking up and be frustrated because i couldn't remember the name of the game, can you see now how important a name is?
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/9/Prehistorik.html

So yeah before i jump with names we need something other than the gameplay to define the game otherwise it will sound generic, so for now neither me, nor Squidly or even RealFaction could come with a non generic name, well maybe RealFaction could, it seems he may know more than us, but if he doesn't then we are all in the same position.

Oh man watch this, is a critic on generic Newgrounds usernames , if this is relevant for this post then can you see the problem?
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/539440

headphoamz 2013-12-04 01:02:26

dat scarecrow