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Run the game-name poll

naming-and-brand/002 · created 2026-08-13 · updated 2026-08-13

What to do

This is a human task, assigned to Kris — not agent-executable. It sits in needs-input because the action itself (posting to Facebook, clicking through IP Australia’s TM Checker, registering a domain) is Kris’s to take, not because it’s blocked on anyone else’s decision.

Goal: run a public poll (Facebook post to the warm network first) on the vetted name shortlist, gather resonance data, then Kris makes the final title call.

Poll slate

All fully-green vetted — see brand/naming.md’s “2026-08-13 shortlist” section for each name’s full sweep record:

• Spellgrove (current working title)
• Cauldria
• Portilia
• Optional 4th: Rahlands — only if the family-privacy question in marketing-and-communication/CLAUDE.md is resolved YES first.
• Do not include Portalia in any slate containing Portilia — recorded poll-design caution (brand/naming.md): voters hear them as one name.

Pre-registered prediction (recorded 2026-08-13)

Kris predicts Spellgrove wins. Writing this down beforehand turns the poll into a real test — a surprise result is high-value data, not a failure.

Before the poll goes public (prerequisite human checks, ~15 min)

• IP Australia TM Checker/ATMOSS pass on the slate names, especially Spellgrove (same interactive process as Q003’s LOR check — interactive, not agent-shortcuttable).
• App Store Connect name-availability check for Spellgrove.
• Domain check/registration for Spellgrove (spellgrove.com etc.).
• Handle pre-grab for all finalists: not required — Kris’s explicit call, 2026-08-13 (low-profile risk accepted: not enough of a following that announcing the shortlist risks someone grabbing the names). Planned handle pattern for the eventual winner: @spellgrovegame-style (bare @spellgrove on TikTok/YouTube is already held by individuals).

Poll design notes

• Frame as “help us choose from our vetted shortlist” — community input, founder keeps the final call.
• Ask parents to run the recall test: “read these names to your kids, tell me tomorrow which one they remember.” Next-day recall from kids is the strongest signal; adult votes measure engagement/politeness more than market fit. If adults and kids diverge, weight the kids’ recall.
• The poll is also the first public build-in-public beat pre-Kickstarter — it has value independent of the vote counts.
• If/when community tooling gets built (deliberately deferred 2026-08-13 — an email service wired into the site’s betaFormEndpoint etc.), an email-gated vote doubles as a mailing-list builder. Fine to run this first poll without it.

Definition of done

The poll has been posted, resonance data (including kid-recall responses) has been gathered, and Kris has recorded a final title decision — see the follow-ups below for what happens next.

Follow-ups after the poll (spawn as separate tasks when reached, not now)

1. Kris makes and records the final title decision in brand/naming.md (closes the reopened-title note in ../overview.md).
2. Create social accounts for the winning name (@spellgrovegame pattern, or the equivalent for whichever name wins).
3. Register the domain for the winning name (supersedes/joins Q002).
4. If the winner is not the incumbent: propagate the new title through brand/brand.json (single propagation point) → site, UI, export presets (note: export_presets.cfg still carries a stale “Land of Lor”) → the App Store Connect app-name field.
5. Vetting with Rah and more adults/children continues in parallel (already noted in brand/naming.md).

Docs to read first

• brand/naming.md — full candidate record and the 2026-08-13 shortlist sweep.
• ../overview.md — the reopened-title note.
• Q003 — the interactive ATMOSS-check precedent.
• marketing-and-communication/CLAUDE.md — family-privacy question gating Rahlands.

Assumptions

• This task was requested directly (not self-generated) with full content specified; filed under naming-and-brand rather than a marketing-and-communication epic, since no such epic exists in epics/ — marketing-and-communication/ is a top-level, non-epic folder with its own plan/log convention, and this task is fundamentally a naming decision, which is squarely this epic’s domain (see brand/naming.md, owned here).

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