Name in Credits interaction

6. Please don't make everyone wait through 30 minutes of credits to show all the names.

Right, there has to be a balance between "waiting too long" and "scrolling too fast".

I like what you mentioned regarding having pictures/scenes aligned with the credits. That way, if we wanted to tell someone where in the credits we are, you could say "Oh, just a second after the picture of Anne and Dominique scrolls by", etc. It's a landmark, and something to look at all the while anyway. This is something games in the 90s commonly did, and especially arcades games - scroll art assets by as the credits do.

There are also possibilities of more interactive/creative ways of doing this. I remember specifically in Tatsunoko vs Capcom, if you pressed a button during the credits, Doronjo and her henchmen would ride a bike up and down hills in a very cartoony fashion and be able to jump to collect letters in credit names. Certain letters would be colored differently, and getting them all would net an in-game bonus or unlock. It was pretty fun too lol, like a minigame unto itself:



If you beat the game with Roll (from Mega Man), a SICK PUN occurs and you get to "Roll" the credits. ULLLLLLL

This was brilliant, especially as it went along with Undertale's gameplay during fights. This being said, I wonder how we could apply this to Bloodstained's gameplay...

It's also preeetty damn hard to do without getting hit. lol

What about a simple cookie clicker/button masher thingy?

If the game has some kind of way to tell you are one of the backers, like Enkerias special message suggestion, they could make it so you have to 'fight off' all of the other credits.
Your name plus the message stay on screen at all times.

Start out by just scrolling the regular credits.

When you hit buttons during the scrolling your name on screen start to wiggle, like it is trying to gain control.
When you do gain control, the screen breaks, like the shard collection effect in game, and all the names on screen start get blasted of the screen in a radial fashion.

Your name is in the centre of the screen now and all the names 'attack' your name. This hapens automatically at a set interval.
If you keep mashing however it speeds up significantly and the hitsparks effects of you 'battling' the other names increase.
And depending on how fast you mash, the faster the names appear on screen.

The names of each clan could have its own colour as well, to differentiate the clans.

And if you clear the credits fast enough you get a bonus joke item/shard in game? =P
Like whip made out of the names of the backers, and the names get randomized each time you whip.
Or a shard that has a special hit spark effect, which would be random backer names instead of a standard spark effect.

Kinda like this:


But all the 'enemies' are all the credit names, and the player character is your own name.

I'm sure this game is going to have a lot of names in the credits and that it'll likely follow a format of company, sections in the company, and employees within starting with the CEOs and heads before working it's way down to the guys on the ground developing the content. We'll also likely see us backers near the end of credits.

Due to the sheer amount of names I think it's a must for their to be some way for the player to keep engaged. I personally prefer, and love, when credits scroll at their own pace with the options for the player to go forward and back as they wish. As for a more creative approach there could be an in game section with all the backer names. Each creature is renamed as a backer and the clan chosen determines the enemy type that gets the name.