Like every good band, a creative company should have an interesting story behind how they decided on a name. RocketHands does have such a story, and we're going to tell you it now!

It was February 2008 when we first starting throwing around ideas for the name of the company that was rising up out of Project: Blurst Case Scenario. We were all working for Interzone Games, which seemed to be in death throes, and were planning out what would happen in the worst case scenario - i.e. if Interzone did indeed fail completely. We had a humongous email thread suggesting names and discussing back and forth about which ones we liked and which ones we hated. I contributed my fair share of terrible names, including: System Attic, BristleMouth, Spartifacts, Synergystic Studios. Sorry guys!

We ended up with a big list of decent names. Any of them would have sufficed, but not one of them jumped out as being obviously better than the rest. We met up at a cafe in Mount Lawley to go through the list and select a name. Mount Lawley is the kind of place to get creative juices flowing, and it's also where RocketHands would love to have an office. Over brunch, we ruled out a bunch of names, and then came up with a load more to add to the list! We were no closer to making a final choice, and seemed to be hanging out for that elusive name that would jump out at us.

Shortly afterwards, we had a pizza and classic 80s film night over at Kranzky's place. There were two films lined up:

• The Lost Boys - "After moving to a new town, two brothers are convinced that the area is frequented by vampires."
• Electric Dreams - "An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman."

We spent so long making the pizzas (and topping them creatively!) that there was only time for one film - so The Lost Boys was chosen.

In one particular scene near the end, one of the vampires is shot with an arrow and flies backwards into a big hi-fi system. As the arrow pierces his heart, his hands shoot off like rockets - and then his head too! We laughed heartily at his rocket hands. Here's the key scene on YouTube - it's at 5m40s. At the end of the film, Simon suggested Rocket Hands along with a few other Lost Boys themed names. But it was a fun night, not a business night so we didn't dwell on it for too long.

Later that week, all but one of us gathered round for another meeting to decide the name. The list now included RocketHands. We started checking domain name availability for some of our favourite names, along with Google searches to check there weren't other companies already using that name. Surprisingly, RocketHands.com was available and there were no-one else seemed to have put together that combination of words. So we homed in on RocketHands and ruled out all of the others.

Dan unfortunately couldn't be with us that day as he had started some contract work to tide him over during the Interzone downward spiral. We had to check with him to see if he agreed with our choice. We thought we'd have a bit of fun with him so I texted him and said:

"We've got together to try to nail down a name for the company. We're torn between Raging Queens and RocketHands. You've got the deciding vote-what do u reckon? Both have domain names available but we think they are both awesome."

Dan's reply was speedy and direct:

"RocketHands. Raging Queens might sounds like we are a bunch of cross dressers :)"

So that's how Project: Blurst Case Scenario became RocketHands. I wonder if things would have turned out differently if we had watched Electric Dreams instead of The Lost Boys. Or if Dan had a penchant for the name we tinkered him with...

Incidentally, the two weeks we took to come up with all these names wasn't wasted - some of the other names have been put to good use: The Magic Pantry is Kranzky's blog, Simon uses Facepocalypse for his blog, and Beets uses MonsterWorks for branding his GameJam games.