Dan Teasdale, Senior Designer at Harmonix, has detailed a few of the names his team went through before settling on Rock Band.

I wonder if "Big Band Blowout" would have managed to sell in its millions too!

At the Game Developers Conference today, Harmonix Senior Designer Dan Teasdale gave a talk to the gathered gamererati about what went on behind-the-scenes during the development of Rock Band. Teasdale discussed Rock Band's title as well as Harmonix' laser-like focus on the user experience.

First the name. "Rock Band," as a game title, is perfect. It's as simple as possible, and an exact description of every aspect of what playing the game is like. But there were other names considered. Here's a list of crap-canned concepts, along with my commentary on why they are bad.

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