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Stick with the Beckett theme instead. "Words are all we have," perhaps.

Or even "Worlds are all we have".

Failbetter Games - Building Storied Worlds

While I have a soft spot for "Mostly beige, mostly text," "Worlds are all we have" is effing brilliant and should go into use immediately.

Reposting from accidental deletion:

Making Awesome Things!

Wait, you want more? More description? Erm. "Making Awesome Things With Words!"

Worlds through Words
Wit and Worldplay
Dreamers of Worlds

Oi, I've got it. MORE BEIGE THAN YOU CAN SHAKE A STICK AT! (I'll get me coat.)

Hansom to the Dark Side?
Building More Sinister Worlds?
Go Mad and Hallucinate Lizards With Us?
Where Dickens and Lovecraft Fight to the Death?

Hm, if only we could get the word out to the player base.

Really, though: Aliens is not a "substantial literary work"?  What planet is he from?

Sticking with Beckett, either


Spool. Spooooooool.

or

Oh Boy!

I have to echo (ha!) the support for "words/worlds are all we have," it's classy ANY you can swap the "l" in and out as you please.  I think there's enough crescendo in the gaming industry, anyway.

Alternately, you could go with something that connect to "Failbetter" itself, like "Failbetter Games: It Could Be Worse".

I like Worlds/Words are all we have, but...

In keeping with the Becketterie

"Passing time more rapidly"

That, er, that should be an "AND" up there.

'Story Under Construction'?

Putting worlds into your mouth.

Failbetter Games - Terraforming reality one world at a time

"The 'What' in the World"

Hmm.  "Words enough, and time" would be a marvelous tag line.

"You just keep telling your self that words will never hurt you..."

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” --Edgar Allan Poe

"All the words' a stage, and all the men and women merely players."- WS, misquoted...

Failbetter Games - Faces Like Squid!

No?

@Alex: If you want something a bit more crescendo-y than Wor(l)ds Are All We Have, how about All We Have Are Wor(l)ds?

Failbetter Games - an almost impossible task for your [insert] ability

Beige-moi!

Let's Go Shiny Worlds Happiness Kingdom! [for the JRPG crowd]

Beige-en-scène

Oddly enough, I'm working on a card game called 'straplines', which involves, erm, coming up with straplines. It's telling me you need Steampunk aesthetics with a play on a Beckett quote in the form of a puzzle/crossword clue.

Happy to help.

Iz Steampunk!
Iz!
Iz!

I agree that it's not steampunk, in that there is no mechanical stuff, or other (even theoretical) stuff going on that is only-sideways-appropriate for the time/tech level. Much of steampunk is visual, also, and you're (emphatically? Aggressively?) assertively Not Going There.

That said, I will add weights to the Marketing S(ch)tick and note that the current 'fad' (to what extent it is a fad) for Victoriana is (unfortunately) intimately bound up with the tech-dissonance of "Steampunk" and so, for the purposes of marketing, it should not be denied. Let them find out it's not really there after they get hooked on the game.

(wicked evil grin)

Right under our noses

Right under our noses