We’ve been working on a game for a while now but it’s largely been secretive, not intentionally but because we have not settled on a name with which to present the project publicly.
The whole team has ideas, but today I decided to use ChatGPT for inspiration to finally settle our name. Here’s how it went…
First off – ChatGPT is amazing – as is the fact I can use it for free. It’s able to understand some very complex sentences, be creative on the spot and even reference previous parts of the conversation like a real person.
It’s not flawless though. It did make mistakes on an arguably simpler task – combining existing lists. It left some items out and was not able to explain why, but given how clever it is we can definitely forgive that!
The core mechanic
I started by giving the chat a one sentence background on our game plot. I had to omit some details (of course) and really condense what is the core mechanic. In seconds ChatGPT was able to give me a list.
Of course, the answers you get can only be as good as the question you ask. My question really didn’t do the plot justice, so I refined it various times and asked again. Here’s one of the refinements:
We’re starting to get some good suggestions.
More aspects of our game
One of the biggest aspects to our game is leadership. Forming relationships with the NPCs and leading them is important. As is being able to tell your own story – your character has no background except what you give. They are not the chosen one, they haven’t inherited from a strong bloodline, they are as ordinary as can be and leadership is not ingrained.
I want our title to convey that, at least a little. So I refined again:
More good suggestions, but we aren’t there yet. However, as I continued to ‘refine’ my question, the names began getting further from what we desired:
Asking for interesting words
In order to better direct my prompts, I decided to sidetrack and ask ChatGPT for some interesting words to use. Here’s how part of that conversation went:
At this point ChatGPT stopped responding for some unknown error and I had to pick up the thread in a new conversation, with various other questions/prompts on new tangents:
Impressive ChatGPT capabilities
At this point I found myself impressed by ChatGPT again. This time the cool feature was the ability for ChatGPT to reference across different chats!
It turns out though, that one thing ChatGPT cannot do, is export the entire chat nicely (I asked). We are limited to copy-paste and screenshots, but at least we are allowed to share the chats (I also asked).
I must say, it’s really really nice being able to directly ask a service what it’s relevant policies are, rather than go digging though another part of the site.
Compiling Results
After a lot more questions and refinements not included here, I asked ChatGPT to combine multiple lists and then sort them alphabetically. This is the only place I faced problems.
I had already combined previous lists into a list now totaling 70 entries. I asked it to add that list with three more lists containing 10 elements each and ended up with… 90 entries. Somehow we lost 10.
I asked it to do the sorting before I noticed this though – and after sorting I ended up with 79 elements. What was going on?
I tried asking directly. ChatGPT apologized and tried to start again, but then it just typed out the same list
It also did not allow me to clean up the chat before I continued… well actually it said I could, but it did nothing…
Summary List
So that was my ChatGPT experience, largely a positive one, although I had to manually go through the list to find as many of the missing entries as I could, after sorting them and to remove some obviously illegal ones like using the prefix ‘Age of Empires’. This is what we ended up with:
- Appointed to Reign
- Building a New Era
- Castle Chronicles
- Castle Colony Chronicles
- Castle Colony Conundrum
- Castle Commander
- Castle Keep Conquest
- Castle of Progression
- Castle Survivors
- Castle Voyagers
- Castle Worlds
- Château Chronicles
- Château Crusade
- Citadel of the Multiverse
- Crowned Conquest
- Crowned by Fate
- Crowned Legacy
- Crown of Empires
- Crown of Thorns
- Destiny’s Crown
- Destiny’s Heir
- Dimensional Castle Builder
- Dimensional Citadel
- Dimensional Colony
- Dimensional Dynasty
- Dimensional Refuge
- Dominion’s Crest
- Dominion’s Legacy
- Empire’s Heir
- Fortress Founder
- Fortress of Progress
- Frontier Empires
- Innovation in the Middle Ages
- Interdimensional Citadel
- Interdimensional Keep
- Interdimensional Siege
- Kingdom of Aeternum
- Kingdom’s Frontier
- Kingdoms of the Crown
- Lord of the Keep
- Lord’s Appointment
- Lords of the Tesseract
- Medieval Mayor
- Medieval Multidimension
- Medieval Multiverse Manager
- Medieval Multiverse Mastery
- Medieval Multiverse Mayhem
- Medieval Multiverse Monarchs
- Medieval Minds
- Medieval Struggle
- Medieval Technology
- Modernizing the Middle Ages
- Mountain Monarch
- Multidimensional Refuge
- MultiDimensional Siege
- Multidimensional Stronghold
- Multiverse Manor
- Multiverse Mayors
- Omniverse
- Parallel Fort
- Portals & Provisions
- Portals and Principals
- Portal Pioneers
- Portal Politics
- Portal to the Kingdom
- Portal to the Past
- Portals & Provisions
- Realm Guardian
- Realm Hoppers
- Regal Renown
- Rebuilding the Castle
- Reign Supreme
- Revitalizing the Past
- Rise to Rule
- Rise to the Throne
- Royal Realms
- Royal Rise
- Sovereign Realms
- Surviving the Multiverse
- Struggling to Survive
- Stronghold Steward
- Surviving the Other Dimension
- Technological Knights
- Technological Renaissance
- Tesseract Tavern
- Tesseract Territories
- Tesseract Thrones
- Tesseract Tower
- Tesseract Tactics
- Tesseract Treasures
- Tesseract Trials
- The Baron’s Burden
- The Castle Consul
- The Castle of the Future
- The Castle of Progression
- The Castle Wanderers
- The Count’s Call
- The Crowned Legacy
- The Crowned Successor
- The Dimensional Village
- The Dimensions of Dynasty
- The Dimensions of Power
- The Dimensions of Rule
- The Future of the Middle Ages
- The Lord’s Appointment
- The Medieval Multiverse
- The Medieval Struggle
- The Medieval Multiverse Mysteries
- The Mountain Majesty
- The Multiversal Magnates
- The Multiverse’s Last Stand
- The Multiverse Siege
- The Peasant King
- The Power Ascension
- The Rise of the Emperor
- The Road to Sovereignty
- The Royal Appointment
- The Survivalist King
- The Tesseract Town
- Throne Quest
- Timeless Sovereign
- Upgrading the Castle
- Village of the Crowned
- Village of the Future
- Village of the Multiversal Magnates
- Village of the Multiverse Monarchs
- Village of Portals
- Village Portal Panic
- Village Portal Ventures
- Village of the Tesseract Titans
- Village of the Multiverse Monarchs
Now our next step is to discuss these inspirational names together and pick something final. Of course, we’re totally open to your suggestions too, if you’re interested in our project.
