What happen to Dome Romantik?

[無心]

Why change to lame name?

[René - Bippinbits]

Short version: Dome Romantik was only a pun, stemming from the game jam version. Romantik made no sense in the meaning of the word too.

So, now we stick with the lame name, but the game is better ;)

[Smaug]

I think the new name is just fine. I was wondering if the name change was to avoid confusion with the excellent Dorfromantik that I also happen to be playing now. Can't wait to play Dome Keeper, the updates look great

[Enceladus]

Dome Romantik is still a better name that Dome Keeper. Dome Keeper is boring and lame. Looks like I won't be getting this game after all.

[無心]

Originally posted by Enceladus:

Dome Romantik is still a better name that Dome Keeper. Dome Keeper is boring and lame. Looks like I won't be getting this game after all.

Yes sorry but it was deal breaker for me too.

[René - Bippinbits]

eh, you lose some and you don't win some others, right? :D

[ninino]

Originally posted by René - Bippinbits:

eh, you lose some and you don't win some others, right? :D

I suppose soo.. I will still be getting the game no matter the name. Looking forward to it.
To trot out a old, but good reference, the last time names really mattered was to the Montagues and Capulets, and that didnt work out to well.

[René - Bippinbits]

Originally posted by ninino:

I suppose soo.. I will still be getting the game no matter the name. Looking forward to it.
To trot out a old, but good reference, the last time names really mattered was to the Montagues and Capulets, and that didnt work out to well.

haha, a good one :D

[The Sassy Babies Eater]

To be honest Dome Romantik had so much more personality !
I really liked it. And I loved the idea of something with the dome beein romantik. I don't know.
Dome keeper feels awfully generic as a name, and it's not the case of the game. A guy keeping his dome from Eldrich horror definitly had some weirdly romantic aspect to it. Or at least the name let the imagination run wild. Is he the last alive on this planet, creating a sort of love relation with his last shelter, even if only metaphorical ?
I'll still get the game cause it was fun. But I personnaly think that changing name took away of the outside appeal of the game.

[⎛⎝๖ۣۜÐÆ ๖ۣۜTigar⎠⎞]

The thing is "dome keeper" doesn't look or sound interesting in the slightest it sounds like the name of a asset flip so if you are scrolling through a list of games and the picture doesn't catch the interest fast enough and neither does the name you loose out on a lot of potential players were as its the fact it was called "Dome Romantik" that made me go "Wait what is that" and made me pause and have a look and try to figure out what the game was about and i think it does this with quite a few people.

Were as if the game had been called "Dome keeper" id have gone "oh yet another game using the keeper name ignore and move on" as there are so so so sooooooo many games that use the word keeper in their name and i get it it kinda makes sense for what you are doing but still it just lacks personality and doesn't catch someone's eye.

Now i do have to say if a person does look past the name and gets hooked on the picture and the trailer i'm sure they are gonna end up wanting to try it out regardless of name

[Smaug]

Originally posted by ⎛⎝๖ۣۜÐÆ ๖ۣۜTigar⎠⎞:

Were as if the game had been called "Dome keeper" id have gone "oh yet another game using the keeper name ignore and move on" as there are so so so sooooooo many games that use the word keeper in their name and i get it it kinda makes sense for what you are doing but still it just lacks personality and doesn't catch someone's eye.

How unfortunate, some of the best games I've ever played have "Keeper" in the name, like Dungeon Keeper.

Did it occur to you that your experience is completely anecdotal, that perhaps the Keeper moniker is so popular specifically because it has broad genre appeal, and that perhaps this might bring players' eyes to the title? It might not appeal to your need for eldritch drama and mysterious romance, but then again Lovecraft doesn't have a great deal of mass appeal either. Maybe he should have called his short story The Keeper of Cthulhu...

[kaonashi]

Originally posted by The Sassy Babies Eater:

To be honest Dome Romantik had so much more personality !
I really liked it. And I loved the idea of something with the dome beein romantik. I don't know.
Dome keeper feels awfully generic as a name, and it's not the case of the game. A guy keeping his dome from Eldrich horror definitly had some weirdly romantic aspect to it. Or at least the name let the imagination run wild. Is he the last alive on this planet, creating a sort of love relation with his last shelter, even if only metaphorical ?
I'll still get the game cause it was fun. But I personnaly think that changing name took away of the outside appeal of the game.

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[JamesQStokes]

For what its worth I thought Dome Romantik was an awesome name, plus it was pretty catchy as well. Even if the game had nothing to do with romance :)

I also agree with "The Sassie Baby Eater" that the previous title matched the games character in a being a unique title for a unique game. The Dome keeper sounds a bit more generic... Regardless of the name I will still enjoy it. Plus I know naming something is not the easiest thing to do.

Wow, I don't understand why a person would choose weather or not to play a game by its title... Especially if they know that they like the game.

[KocLobster]

Originally posted by ZnC:

Originally posted by Enceladus:

Dome Romantik is still a better name that Dome Keeper. Dome Keeper is boring and lame. Looks like I won't be getting this game after all.

Yes sorry but it was deal breaker for me too.

What a stupid reason to suddenly not want to play this upcoming game. LOL

[Gnome]

I always thought that the previous name was too similar with that other game: Dorfromantik. At least now I won't be bothered by that anymore

[Jamifa]

I understand not liking the name change, but having played it before, liking the gameplay, and then deciding you're not going to play it anymore because the name is too generic? I really hope that's a joke, because that is the dumbest ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ reason I've ever heard for not playing a game.

"Yeah, the gameplay was fun, but then the name changed, so it sucks now." ..what?

It's not like it was changed to something offensive or something like that, so why does it matter? Sure, it's not as attention-grabbing, but if you've already played the game, why would that affect your decision to buy it?

EDIT: I gotta say, though - thanks to that idiotic exchange, other people have pointed me in the direction of another game that looks really fun as well, though - so.. silver lining, I guess?