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Hi everyone, this is Amanda, the gal who is behind the Aveyond games. I thought I should chime in to help settle the air.
I'll do my best to help
everyone understand the mystery behind the naming of Aveyond 3: Lord of
Twilight, the naming of Gypsy's Tale, and the mystery of the December
mystery game on amaranthia.com. :-)
You, it is very
possible that I subconciencly came up with the name "Lord of Twilight"
after I saw the title of the book Twilight. If the books came out in
2005, this is definately possible. For about a year and a half, I was
playing around with names for Aveyond 3. I thought of calling it
Aveyond 3: Mel's Quest, but I had two other subtitles in my head that
wouldn't go away: Gates of Twilight and Shadow Gate. On the forums at
my site, players were pretty adamant that Te'ijal from Aveyond 1 should
come back. As I plotted and outline last spring, I thought it would be
cool to have her fight a very tough vampire lord at the end. When I
decided this, Lord of Twilight snapped into my head and refused to
leave. So much mystery! I loved it! So there you go. :-) 
Let's
see, what's next? Gypsy's Tale... Yep, this is going to be a very
beautiful adventure game, but with a lot of dry humor in it. You're
going to laugh like crazy when you "save" the "princess" in the middle
of the game. *cackles wickedly*
Hmmm, but where did
this name come from? In fact, I did pick the name because I wanted
something like Tale or Quest or Adventure in the title. I am a huge
Kings Quest fan, and I'm drawn to the word quest like a bee to honey.
Unfortunately every game company on earth has taken every possible
Quest title that I could have used. Even the very generic "Adventure
Quest" was snapped up by a company a couple of years ago. I can
probably list 20 game companies with games that have the word "Quest"
in the title. A new word that has popped up recently is Tale. Like
Quest, I loved the imagery tied to "Tale", so it was very important
that "Tale" was in the name of this game. I've been very vocal about
this name because I was afraid if I didn't publicize it, a big company
like Microsoft, Ubisoft, or EA Games would snap it up before I released
my game and there is NO way I could fight them for the rights of such a
cool name if they wanted to take it from me.
Next,
the mystery game. I play a lot of game, but the "mystery" game was the
first non-amaranthia game that I thought would appeal to most Aveyond
players. The game is called Eternal Eden, and since the release of this
game on my site, it has sold like mad. For good or bad, there are
players who like Eternal Eden over Aveyond.
Many of
you don't know this, but one of my favorite things to do is to help
overlooked, talented independent developers, become sucessful
independent game developers. In fact, Dave Gilbert, the creator of
Emerald City Confidential and Blackwell Legacy and an IGF finalist for
best new game companies was one of the first developer's I helped! So
to make a long story short, I found this amazing guy who made this
incredible game called Eternal Eden last August. I loved the game and
thought it would take off, but it didn't because no one knew it was
available. In November I contacted him and he said things weren't going
so well. He was out of money, and to my horror, only eating everyother
day to survive. He had put every cent and ounce of his strength into
his game. So I helped him because I wanted to see him succeed. You can find the game on amaranthia.com, but I am sure it will come to the casual game portals some time soon.
Make peace, not war everyone! If you have any questions about Aveyond, etc,
just email me directly and I'll do my best to explain any fears you may
have (admin@amaranthia.com)
Now hug and make up. Life is too short to fight with each other. And go play games!!!
:D