Thanks for the input guys!
Quote: "Why not just 'Flow'?"
Yeah that's short and would get the freestyle nature of the game across I guess, but the problem is that it would be hard to find the game in search engines with such a common word. Also there is already a snowboarding company named like that (Flow bindings).
Quote: "I think you want to conjure up an image of hipster snowboarders"
Well, I began snowboarding myself in the 90s when it was not so bloated so I try to keep the style of the game more in that time frame and reduce the hipster crap to a minimum
Quote: "See attachment."
What the... how did you get that cover sketch off my hard drive?!
Quote: "Here's a page with snowboarder speak."
Thanks, that page is actually quite helpful!
Here is another one:
www.abc-of-snowboarding.com/snowboarddictionary.asp
Quote: "alpine spirit actually sounds awesome."
Yeah, it's definitly one of my favorites. Actually it was the working title of the project for some time. I just don't know if it sounds cool enough you know, to me it sounds rather serious, a bit like old men skiing
But it also invokes most of the feelings (nature, mountains, freedom, culture) that I'm after so it's still acceptable.
Quote: "I made a snowboard game (my first DB game in fact) called 'Stoked'"
I remember reading an ancient thread about it here on the forums, I may have even downloaded and played it! Wasn't it like riding down an endless generated terrain or something? But yeah, there where some XBox games named like that. There was also a german television show about freestyle sports named like that back in the days.
Quote: "I kinda imagine a more sandbox style game with that, where you have a lot of freedom"
And that is exactly one of the main aspects of the game! A very simple to use
(gamified) terrain editor is at the core of the game and I imagine the main gameplay to be a lot like Shape Terrain -> Ride -> Shape (refine)
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Playing around with massive amounts of snow like that (raising mountains, plowing in slopes) is actually quite an entertaining experience by itself.
Quote: "then don't tell anyone, because if you think of a real cool name for a snowboard game, someone will nab it!"
Oops, I hope it's not to late, but I trust this forum
Also I have a blog to be opened as soon as I've settled on the name so I will be quick to have the name reserved for me.
Ok, so this seems to be in the top spot right now:
Then I also had this idea:
P.O.W - Pleasures of Winter
First the acronym POW sounds catchy and energetic, it has a cool vibe to it like people saying "Let's go play some POW!"
It's also an abbreviation for powder, which is the nicest type of snow to ride on. And then it stands for
Pleasures of Winter, which should represent the openess (snowboarding, skiing, slope creation, landscapes) of the game. What's your opinion on that?