On last week’s episode of the Streaming Colour Video Blog, I said that I hoped to show you my title screen design for the new game on this week’s episode. Unfortunately, that can’t happen. I’m going to delay the video blog until I can get that ready to show you.

Earlier this week I thought I’d better do some trademark research to make sure the name I had chosen for the game didn’t conflict with any existing trademarks. When I did a search with the Canadian and American trademark offices, I discovered that there was a potential conflict an existing mobile game name in the US. The names weren’t an exact duplicate, but I think that if that company had wanted to, they might have been able to argue that my name could have been confused with theirs.

The net result of this is that I need to come up with a new name for the game. This bugs me, because I really liked the name I had for the game, and now I have to come up with something totally new.

I’m hoping that I’ll have a new name in the next few days and I can redo the title screen art with the new text in it. Until then, I’m afraid the game shall remain slightly shrouded in mystery.

If you want to run your own searches, you can search the US and Canadian trademark offices here:

• Canadian Trademark Search
• US Trademark Search

Owen

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