Complete Guide to City Name Generator: From Fantasy to Post-Apocalyptic

Importance of City Names in Games, Stories, and Films

Put yourself in the position of a “creator” or a mayor that is developing a piece of land until it booms into a prosperous town. Your precious town soon beams with the smiles of happy citizens, tall buildings, and thriving businesses. What else could make this place well-remembered in the annals of history?—a good City name!

City names are used to identify specific pieces of land and its surroundings. People can easily determine and differentiate one place from the other. Additionally, the name of a city represents its inhabitants, encompassing their norms, behavior, and etiquette.

In city-building games, city names are used to identify divisions of a region. Players can freely rename a city based on their standards or whims. Some more advanced and technical players tend to rename their cities based on the region’s main resources. The reason for this is to easily manage their resources and to juggle between the production of the cities as needed. Some city-building games are more casual, like Sim City 4, where players can solely focus on a single city regardless of its resource. But as the region becomes bigger, the city name will play an important role in easily remembering where you left off or what city requires further development or attention.

City Names are also important for Open-World Role Playing Games (Open-World RPGs). In an Open world game, players will need to venture into a huge chunk of a virtual world to approach objectives, meet people, and progress into the story. Game developers take time in providing unique and memorable city names inside the open world so that players can easily remember and identify their next destination in the game. Just imagine a world where there is no name for each city you visit. It will make your adventure complicated and worse, unplayable.

Storytelling, on the other hand, are a forte for novel authors and scriptwriters. Writers will have to visually describe cities through words and provide city names for each. By naming cities, authors can freely create city scenarios that are imaginatively appealing and appreciative in the mind of the reader. Not only that, by giving names to cities or other locations, authors can easily traverse the story from one area to the other by simply shifting where the events are happening. 

The same is true with films and movies. The most common city name that is included in most American movies is New York City, especially in superhero movies like Superman and Spiderman. City names are also a common setting of events happening in a series or film. A few examples are Gotham City (Batman), El Dorado (City of Gold), Atlantis (The Lost City), City of Troy (Troy), and Ba Sing Se (Avatar: The Last Air Bender).