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So Zynga was originally going to call the game "Themepark" but Eric already had that domain, and so they changed it to "Coasterville"?
by willvarfar 13y ago
So Zynga was originally going to call the game "Themepark" but Eric already had that domain, and so they changed it to "Coasterville"?
- Jare 13y agoThe game seems hosted on a themepark.zynga.com subdomain, so yeah.
- panacea 13y agoThey obviously concluded that 'Themeparkville' just didn't have that certain zyng to it.
- ig1 13y agoI imagine the bigger issue is that it's a clone of the Electronic Arts game Theme Park.
- sam_pointer 13y agoFrom experience, it is quite common to have internal code-names for Facebook games for the purposes of preventing leaks from development canvas apps and the like. These are usually related to the general gist of the game. To coin a made-up example, 'SimAir' might be called 'flying' internally.
- brazzy 13y agoMy experience has been that the main reason is that development usually starts before marketing has even decided on the final name. You need to call your dev servers, code repository and bug tracker project something and it's often hard to change retroactively. It's not even unusual to see multiple different working titles float around.