This is a post I made to the Zinnia Games Blog: https://zinniagames.com/the-friday-tiding-13-name-of-the-game/

The Friday Tiding #13: Name Of The Game

17 Jan, 2025

Most of my recent work for Project Petunia has been outside of the game. Thinking of ideas to implement and change. With the incoming artpass that'll be washing over everything I have to figure out how things are going to look.

A lot of these ideas are still in my head, but I did get around to drawing up ideas of what I want the enemies to look like.

This is a line up of the basic enemies that appeared in Demos 1 and 2, as well as a few ideas I didn't get around to implementing for the demos. With these ideas out of my head and on paper, I can spend time further refining them.

I plan on having more concept art to show in coming weeks.

The Namerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Perhaps the biggest piece of news relating to Project Petunia, is that it will no longer be called Project Petunia. I have agonized over a name for quite a while now. It turns out that making a plot as stupid as I have managed to spin up for this game makes it kind of hard to describe.

Regardless after much pain and suffering I have managed to come upon something that works for me. Is it descriptive of the game? No. Is it descriptive of the plot? No. Does it have anything to do with anything?

No.

I spent far too much time trying to come up with anything that actually referred to events in the game, but nothing I (or the other people I asked) came up with anything that felt right. So I decided to just take a page out of the Half-Lifes and Final Fantasys and come up with a name that has only the most tenuous connection to anything in the game.

So after much deliberation and looking around at random things, I finally came up with a name:

Skag Malibu

Yup. Has nothing to do with anything. One of those names that makes you say "What the hell would even have a name like that?". I don't know why I like it but I do.

Anyways, that's about all I have to say for this week. Catch you next week.