Minecraft
Originally, Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson simply referred to Minecraft as “cave game” during the first stages of development. In a YouTube video published back in 2009, Notch showed off his “cave game” for the first time, a clone of similarly styled block-based sandbox game by developer Zachtronics Industries titled Infiniminer. One day later, Notch announced a lengthier title on his blog, Minecraft: Order of the Stone. Notch says, “The awesome but insane people in #tigirc helped me come up with a title for this game, and it’s Minecraft: Order of the Stone. Minecraft because it’s a good name. Order of the Stone because it sounds like Order of the Stick, one of the best things on the internet,” with Order of the Stick referencing the popular webcomic series by Rich Burlew. The title was shortened to just Minecraft, but in 2015 the name was revamped for Telltale’s episodic Minecraft Story Mode: The Order of the Stone.
Thanks to the man who suggested Minecraft himself, @rinkuhero on Twitter, you can check out the #tigirc log to see the moment Minecraft: The Order of the Stone was chosen by Notch. (9:05:08 to be exact) Other suggestions included Digmaker, Stonelands, Kidcave, Cavecraft, and many more in a long brainstorming process before the final name was official chosen.
