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Finally, it is done, I have a company name, and domain name. *dances* managed to get .co.uk and the new .uk

The domains and hosting are provided thru an excellent company named TSOHost, I have been really pleasantly surprised at how helpful they have been, there are a lot of cowboys selling or reselling hosting so it is nice to have the peace of mind of a solid company behind my hosting. And it is 'cloud' hosted so not the typical solitary server shared by 200 customers, but on numerous servers so it should handle sudden large spikes in traffic, always be prepared for success

;-)

and SSH / SFTP / RSYNC support for the nerd in me is a huge boon. Anyway enough gushing, I don't even have an affiliate link.. ok now I have one

:-P

here:

Link: my.tsohost.com --- aff



Or use the Voucher code: TENOFFTSO

Either way you can get 10% off

The Full Article about the logo design and naming "process" here:

Link: shadowood.uk --- Y2011-Mo11-RoundTree



This has taken a disproportionate amount of time for how important it really is. But it mattered to me personally to get right.



No real website yet just a placeholder, will keep it simple ( for me ) and start on that when I have more of my actual game finished!

The original round logo on fire used on my personal Portfolio / Gallery was started in Jan 2006
And the reworking was done November 2011 which produced 'Roundtree'
Though it bugged my how it sounded like a famous brand Rowntree so I restyled it to the Lonetree name around July 2013 which served me internally for a year and shows up in the work in progress for my game.
To then start redoing the name again in June 2014 as I was finally buying the domain and hosting and just didn't 'feel it'

Some of the work leading up to the final design, It's not that I'm so smart, It's just that I stay with problems longer -- Einstein






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Decided to enter the "make a T-shirt design for Unity because they can't be bothered to do it themselves" contest. You can win $300 of asset store credit which might be handy, but I just wanted to enter for fun and because quite frankly, it only took 1 hour 20 minutes of my time and I am better than anyone else... in my mind

Well then another 1 hour 20 fiddling with it and making it high res, but you get the idea, I'm a badass is the point I am trying to make



First Draft below:



How can I not win, anyone who is clever enough to both deconstruct the original Unity logo from a cube into the 3 arrow / vectors it is made from and use the cube representation as a mathematical exponent should clearly be worshipped for the god they are

Though something to do with angry birds will probably win instead...

In case the symbolism escapes you, the person at the top ( who should really be outside the circle but T-shirt design is limited to a square area and I have no room ) represents one person going in 'you' effectively, are then multiplied or cubed to the power of Unity resulting in 3 people all looking rather relaxed. It's you x 3 if you use Unity basically. Using Unity is thus like having 3 cooler versions of you.

Nerd / Programmer Humour I know, but hey, you don't get much more nerdy than the Unity in crowd now do you

;-)



And in White:





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wow
looks like ebay changed It's logo
amazing
its not often companies are this bold

Old:


New:


They say it 'reflects a dynamic future' whatever the fuck that means

-_-
it feels so boutique now
creative use of color again also, reminds me of past masters in logo design:


And MSFTS 'new' logo, inspired:


It's like a terribly boring conspiracy, the year of the ANTI logo

I still love how deftly MSFT joined the f and the t, it really changes it from just a bunch of letters taken directly from a boring font, and turns it into a work of art, week labouring over the exact shade of grey to infuse the type with.

At least google has a good excuse for having a shit logo, it was free

-

Lol looks like I'm not alone in making this granted rather obvious connection:




*starts to hyperventilate* *breaks glass and takes an emergency look at the one true logo, one to rule them all*







Yah I'm a fan boi, what evs



Here are some other logo's getter better:












And best logo ever:



What did you see, I saw a temple in front of a big red sun....






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This is a Logo I recently designed for my new company... which will just be me.. for now

:-)

And of course by company I mean I thought up a name and made a logo nothing official yet

I have been tossing around various concepts for games for ages now, along with learning real programming languages for the first time unless you count Flash AS3 which is close really.

I didn't mean to design a logo before I even have a game or even a wireframe of a game, but one thing lead to another and out it popped one day.

I guess I have just been so utterly bored of writing code (AS3 with this Topps Tiles job) and studying the manuals of Unity 3D and C Sharp without having produced anything tangible or visual in forever.

I am swinging between incredibly apprehensive and eager to start making games by myself. I just know It's going to turn out to be way more difficult and wrought with disaster that I expect, and I already expect it to be the toughest thing I have ever done. I think I have a relatively unique edge over most people though, it been a long time coming; things have guided me down this path for my whole life I feel, it is my destiny!

I would really love to work with a small team of people instead of it just being me, but to start off it really has to be just me. If it works out, if at some point I prove I have got the taste, the broad skills to pull it off even on a small scale.. then I can start thinking about investing in people to work with.

Right now It's early days, a delicate and fragile thought that could poof out of existence unless carefully nurtured and then fiercely executed.

I have learned a tremendous amount of skills especially over past few years that go nicely towards this, sadly not much in the way of physical evidence to show for it, but It's in my head all right.

If I can just nail execution, and work hard, I can do it

And if I can just stop thinking about how incredibly over saturated the market is and how I could just as easily make $100,000 as I could drift off in the wind and make nothing...

:-|



And that's even if I can pull my shit together and execute 50 hour work weeks for 6 months and not implode, creating your own deadlines and sticking to them is tricky stuff. Creating your own inertia with no guarantee of payoff.

Ok heres the various historical progress / messing about:

Link: helios.mine.nu --- Y2011-Mo11-RoundTree








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So here it is My new Logo / Brand for producing software and games under.. that is if I ever get anything finished -_-

This has taken a disproportionate amount of time for how important it really is. But it mattered to me personally to get right.



On iPhone and iPad:



This is what 100's of hours of logo design and pondering possible names looks like condensed. Which scarily doesn't look like that much work, but naturally I am only taking screenshots when I remember to, shame I don't have a time lapse of this

:-)



It's not that I'm so smart, It's just that I stay with problems longer -- Einstein



The original round logo on fire used on my personal Portfolio / Gallery was started in Jan 2006
And the reworking was done November 2011 which produced 'Roundtree'
Though it bugged my how it sounded like a famous brand Rowntree so I restyled it to the Lonetree name around July 2013 which served me internally for a year and shows up in the work in progress for my game.
To then start redoing the name again in June 2014 as I was finally buying the domain and hosting and just didn't 'feel it'

So Below is the various historical progress / messing aboutness's

Funny I basically had the logo after about 2 minutes but took me several hours to turn it into a tree as negative space. But that's what art is, when to keep messing with something and when to stop

I have always loved the old Bungie Marathon Logo ( which supposedly represents the hollowed out moon of Mars; Deimos that forms the U.E.S.C. spaceship Marathon



This all started with me doodling over the top of my current Logo and distorting it as I just wanted to tweak it a bit, not redesign it

I am not including all the work in progress for this starting point logo, it is included in this blog inside Y2006-Mo01-Website article titled 'My Website'









And then somehow right away drew a circle, and cut a piece of it



So that was it, remove the other circle, and I had redesigned my logo in 5 minutes!!

Except I kept going because I hadn't seen the symbolism and pure minimalism in that logo.

So over the course of several hundred hours I kept inventing



A very cryptic version of Alex Lovett as an X and L, my cleverness knows no bounds, bounds such as being able to even read it.

And I'm always googling to see if other people have heavily copied an idea of mine before I use it

:-P









Link is a cool word, double also cool. Also. I probably should have just stopped here























































Ahh had, I see for the first time, it looks a bit like a very neat tree. And I do very much like the name, though it lacks character being just a purely descriptive name. And I may have stopped here and revelled in my cleverness but both com and co.uk domains for it are not available. Though I could have had RoundtreeStudios.co.uk. But more concerning than all of that is the very famous Rowntree fruit pastel company that we have here in the UK. And I can't escape how annoyingly close that is... so on I continue



























































I finally give in and try to think of some other names that are not so close to Rowntree.

Lonetree is pretty good and has more character, and symbolic of how alone I am, a lone develop, the solitary tree that grows, if at all, grows strongest and all that. But it still bugs me how it sounds like 'loan tree' and that it sounds a bit sad and pathetic being 'lone' as cool as 'lone ranger'





And lone tree stuck for a long long time. But ever time it came to buying the domain. I'd flinch, It doesn't feel right. Mostly because of the 'loan' sounding part. I want a name I can say in conversation and not feel stupid or have to spell it out.





code core sounds cool, but is a bit cold and nerdy... which is how I have become lately but doesn't mean I want that reflected in my logo









Yes for a brief moment I feel in love with code root. Finding the WWW really annoying as the smaller newer UK suffix looks out of balance, I tried a few hundred permutations on joint W's and V's together in vein.

Back to the drawing board.. again







Oooh, Ghostree, I like that. it has character, for boding ness.











So close to buying this one, getting fed up... but I still find it a bit embarrassing to say out loud. And I keep reading it over and over and it has become gost-ree to me. The sharing of the T while amazingly clever is a bit of a bastard portmanteau really. Ghost and tree are not very smooth sounding words.



Wood is better, wood is a good solid sounding, smooth sounding word that goes great on the end of other words.















Hmmm... Make it more minimalist, by removing the eye and the hands, improves it I think


Yes I am taking the piss, gotta love the double meaning, it has been a long day

Ok ok, I got it... I really got it

Shadowood

Sounds bad ass, rolls off the tongue, letters look good apart from 'W' stupid letter. Is actually representative of what the logo is. And is available in .co.uk domain

:-P



But yes it is a lot less 'original' and has some million search results on google compared to 10,000 for Ghostree









Nailed it, Shake six, I'm out here

Well lets play with some colours now

:-P









For amusement here is my scratch pad of namingness, I went at this for 100's of hours, it is ridiculous. Serendipity takes hard work. Then it looks clever ( till you know what went on behind the scenes )

Tools

Link: www.litscape.com --- 4_letter_t_end_words


Link: forum.chaos-project.com


Link: www.werdmerge.com


Link: www.degraeve.com --- invent-a-word


Link: alienname.com



Concepts
Misspell word
Compound words ( 2 words added )
Facebook
Gumtree
portmanteau ( combine two works by joining sounds )
Pinterest
Mixel
Stormtronics
Enterbrain
Microsoft
Use clever domain extensions
Art.sy
Lonetr.ee
Oxymorons
Ice on Fire
Old Babies
Backwards ( last resort )
Azzip -> PIZZA
Something vidid and stupid or unexpected
BlueBananaa
BigAssTree
Mediocre Games
AngryBee Games
Random
Porcelain Chicken
Chinese Fried Tofu

Common Name Structures
Here is a list of common company name structures I got from gamedevmap.com, where X is the unique part of your company name
Entertainment (Retard Entertainment)
Interactive (Your Face Interactive)
Studios/Studio (Amazing Studios)
Software/Soft (Very Soft)
Labs/Lab (Evil Minion Labs)
Company/Co/Corp (Shinra Co.)
Media (1337 Media)
Games/Game Development/Development (My Frog Died Yesterday Games)
Online (I Go Online)
Design (Curly Brackets Design)
Systems (Asterisk Systems)
Technology/Tech (Synsys Tech)
Productions

lonetree -- endings
studios @today
software
games
industries
-soft
labs @today
lab
workshop
interactive
Foundry
Factory
Oven
Furnace
Machine
Station
Garage
logic
Domain
tree
outofyourtree

solitree
codetree
gametree
digitree
riotree

upAtree
untree
nonetree
nontree
squirreltree
losttree
Deadtree

digitree
swiftree
lightree
idiotree
ghostree @today
riftree
lostree
rootree
rocketree
modestree
dreamtree

NullTree
VoidTree
BanishedTree
BlankTree
Nihilitree

notree
LonelyTree
LoneTree
notree
FireTree
Hidden tree
lemontree
peartree
orangetree
cherrytree
blacktree @today
-
treetop
treeless
treelike
treeline
-
treality
trealize

arbre ( catalan )
arbre solitari
arbol ( spanish)
albero ( italian )
arbre ( French )
arbre soliatire
arvore ( Portuguese )

wood
woodland
heartwood
roundwood @today
deadwood
redwood
firewood
blankwood
voidwood
nullwood
gamewood
talkingtrees
Linkwood

Dramatic funny odd
Angry
Bright odd colors pinktree
Emotional states or character traits
Negatree
Loopytree
Treeloop
Loopywood
Woodloop
LoneTree
Codewood

oak
blackoak
oakvoid
angryoak
forest
gameforest
roundforest
seed
Seedling
Sapling
green
evergreen
forevergreen
whatevergreen
nevergreen
n'evergreen
clevergreen
deciduous
shrub
bush
root
bark

Ring
Loop
Link
Linkwood
Zero
Zone
Point
Code
Node

Core
Woodcore
Treecore @today
corewood
hollowcore
oakcore
seedcore
coreseed
codecore

root
rootcore
coderoot
treerootnode
treeroot.co.uk @today
coderoot.co.uk @today

drus
trunk
timber
garden
plant
Park
Field
Basin
Bed
Patch
Plot
Yard
Terrace
Oasis
Nursery

Yggdrasil
dryads
plantation
ecology
habitat
dendro
dendrology
Arbourous - formed from trres
arborary, arboreal, arborical
arboreal
arboreality
arboreus
arbor
Arbor vitae
Tree of life
Yuan

Code
Creation
Forge

--prefix
my
our
the
all
in
on
un

--sufix
ly
sy
er
it
ie
io
am
ia
ora
ero
ist
ism
ium
ble
ify
ous
ing
thru
ium
Ented
Arium

Electric
Red
Digital
Round

Singular
Dream
Epiphany
Chromatic Abberation
Solitary
solus, secretum, singularis
Secluded
Solo
One
Augmented
Mirage
Horizon
Circular
Fruits
Seed
Abstract
Creative
Illusory
Illusion
Elusive
Summer
Spring

Elusive Tree
Distorted Reality
Game Garden
Lone tree
Sole tree

Great company naming tells a story that engages and compels
Great company naming glides off the tongue and lands gracefully on the page
Great company naming stakes a claim that is distinctive and trademarkable
And great company naming must do all of this in just a few short syllables
Emotional Bonding Power - When naming a business or developing a product name, are you connecting with your target market? Are you measuring the name's emotional bonding power?
Memorability - Brand name research shows memorability is the true litmus test of exceptional names. Can your target market recall the new product name after seeing it just once?
Latent Association - What negative and positive associations exist with your new corporate name or product name? What barriers have to be overcome with negative latent associations? How does sound symbolism or phono-semantics (the meaning of sounds) affect the evaluation of a name's latent association?
Fit to Concept - Which brand name candidate best positions your company, product or service offering?
Pronouncability - Brand name research reveals what should be common sense: If your target market can't pronounce the brand name, they won't ask for it.
Can you quantify your product name pronouncability?
Sound Symbolism - Does the product name sound right to your target customers? If you're naming a business, does the name sound powerful and established?



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