Help! I need a new name for characters we made.

[Vaiti]

Not sure if I should post this here or Gaming Development, or just Gaming, but well, I just need some feedback on this.

So we are making a physics puzzle game for iOS where you navigate these little guys to portals to move on to the next level. Game has been in development for awhile, and we are getting close to making a press release, but then we ran into a small problem.
The name we have been using in-house for these little guys was blobos, but this morning we got an email telling us we weren't allowed to use this name due to a trademark on it by these guys http://www.bloboshop.com/

We are a finnish indie game company, and it just so happens that these guys are a finnish game controller company. So between both of our companies being finnish and both being in the game industry in soe fashion, we simply can't use the name anymore.

Thing is, we are so attached to calling these guys blobos we can't seem to think or a decent name to refer to them as now. Rolos? Rollies? Round-dudes? Blobies?
We're stumped, any advise/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Arthur_Parker]

Geldons.

[Vaiti]

Should mention the goal of the game is to save these guys. Name will end up being something like Save the Geldons. Do you really want to save Geldon?

[Hawkbit]

Trobbles.  50% chance to get a letter on that, though, too.

[Arthur_Parker]

Do you really want to save Geldon?

I just thought it would be funny, use an anagram solver using the key guys initials or something?

[Vaiti]

Yeah, we thought about anagrams. Nothing has come up that we've gone AHH! about yet.

Why would there be a 50% chance of a letter on Trobbles? A quick google didn't churn up anything that looked like it would really result in one. Unless it's that Adventure Quest thing. Guessing they are some critter in the game?

[NowhereMan]

I think he was referring to Tribbles.

Bollo's? Actually I think they look a lot like potential Cthullu creatures from beyond the realm of fact or reason. If I saw something like fire would be the only solution.

[Vaiti]

We have fire in the game. You are supposed to navigate them safely past it. But accidents happen... 

[Arthur_Parker]

We have fire in the game. You are supposed to navigate them safely past it. But accidents happen... 

Geldons.

[NowhereMan]

New title/tagline:

Save the Geldons!
(Accidents do Happen..)

[schild]

Yea, that's the ticket. Immortalize the guy in some capacity. No. Executive veto.

[Sky]

Globos
Florps
Wee furry twats
Bumbles


...what?

[Paelos]

Robbles
Spheries
Hoopajoops
Labolongs
Jibbies

[Yoru]

Grunzels.


Or just straight up use Foozles.

[Vaiti]

I'm liking Foozles and wondering why that never occurred to me.

These guys are supposed to be an alien race that migrates around. So I was trying to come up with cutsie alien names in my head and failing horribly. We are so stuck on the name we have been using, any suggestion is almost getting shot down out of hand at the office. the best one I came up with was Rollos. Because, uh, they roll and stuff? I dunno.

And for your amusement, my boss sent me idea suggestions like Furrymals and Fluffers. He didn't have a clue what either implied. 

When I told him, he said that the English language seems to be obsessed with porn.
We had a talk earlier about the finnish word pussi, which means bag, and how it still to this day makes me giggle to ask for one at the store.

[K9]

Derps

[Sky]

These guys are supposed to be an alien race that migrates around.

Then go for Globos. It's similar to your original name, and denotes they're globe-trotting.

Though I'm still pulling for Weefurrytwats. And Fluffers has potential, I could see getting worked up by those.

[Lantyssa]

pussibags

[tazelbain]

Puffles

[Chimpy]

Blorts.

[stu]

Are they filled with gas/Do they explode? Vagabombs.

I like Foozles.

[Paelos]

Wanderlings

[Jherad]

Jubblies

[Der Helm]

We had a talk earlier about the finnish word pussi, which means bag, and how it still to this day makes me giggle to ask for one at the store.

I broke down in tears of laughter when I saw MEGAPUSSIES at the supermarket.

Also, their name for an icecream cone is hillarious.

[Mrbloodworth]

Kerfuffles!

[schild]

Votes cast for:
Foozles
Derps

BONUS:
Name one of them Gropaga. Or all of them. Whatever.

In that order.

[Ghambit]

You can do what's all the craze in game names these days and call them "Round balls of fur."

[Bzalthek]

There is a creature that originates in Eastern Japan folklore (iirc) called the Kesaran-pasaran.  It's a little fluffball that is supposed to bring good luck.  You might want to think of some alteration to that name and using it.  I think the symmetry that these little critters you have need all the luck they can get avoiding being burned alive in a fiery inferno would be rather neat.  These guys have no luck because their cousins keep giving it away!

*Shrug* just a thought.

[HaemishM]

Furstables
Rotnozzles
Flibitygibbits
Linticles
Splortz
Spuzzems
Waargabarlges
The Anti-Memes
Horks or Horkins
Fandanglers
Kuncranks
VOOSHies

[Sand]

Votes cast for:
Foozles
Derps

BONUS:
Name one of them Gropaga. Or all of them. Whatever.

In that order.

I like those two.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Woozles.
Blints*
Poccas







*balls o' lint

[apocrypha]

Testies.
Nutts.
Bolox.
RSO's (round spherical objects).
Sacmans.
Goldbags.
Jisters.

[Musashi]

Derps.

[Murgos]

You can do what's all the craze in game names these days and call them "Round balls of fur."

RBOF's...

[Bzalthek]

RoBaloFs
Roblofs
Blofs