Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:41 am
Why not just Darwinia 2?
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:44 am
Lynch this man.
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:58 am
shinygerbil wrote:Why not just Darwinia 2?
We could call it Darwinier. The third tittle to complete the trilogy could be called Darwiniest.
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:05 am
Feud wrote:shinygerbil wrote:Why not just Darwinia 2?
We could call it Darwinier. The third tittle to complete the trilogy could be called Darwiniest.
The fourth in the trilogy being Darwon?
NeoThermic
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:02 am
A four game trilogy.
wwarnick
wwarnick
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:46 am
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The Greenest War : Even the Souls Get Recycled (or Soldiers)
FodderMakers(a la PuppetMasters)
GODFODDER
something along the lines of "atom-smasher", thrasher, collider... Colour Thrasher : everyone wants to be Top Quark
One of the problems with coming up with a name is that the DGs are called Darwinians and IV want to avoid the word Darwinia. What else can you call them? I can't think of any decent short descriptive names for sprite stick people. They're not even really stick people 'cause they can't move their arms and legs... they're just static sprites endowed with quantum AI and individualized personalities, codes, souls, sizes, and shades of their team colours. If someone hadn't played Darwinia, how the hell would you explain what DGs are to that person? Can you do it in 3 words or less without sounding like a CS nerd?
Anyhow, I don't think I'll ever come up with a better name than this:
GODFODDER
God game, Fodder, GodFather... what more could you want? Doesn't even need a tagline. Scrabble dictionaries are great! http://www.morewords.com/ ... The domain name is even up for sale and the only commercial use seems to be a band name. Only 543 Google hits. ... oh, and a metal label called Godfodder Records that seems to have only one band, Dublin Death Patrol. Maybe they're fans of yours, Chris?
GODFODDER : War is Fun Again
GODFODDER : War is Hilarious
GODFODDER : Hilarious Little Wars
GODFODDER : Cannons Included
GODFODDER : Slash and Burn Culture for the Digital Age
GODFODDER : a War so Fun You Can't Refuse
The Greenest War : Even the Souls Get Recycled (or Soldiers)
FodderMakers(a la PuppetMasters)
GODFODDER
something along the lines of "atom-smasher", thrasher, collider... Colour Thrasher : everyone wants to be Top Quark
One of the problems with coming up with a name is that the DGs are called Darwinians and IV want to avoid the word Darwinia. What else can you call them? I can't think of any decent short descriptive names for sprite stick people. They're not even really stick people 'cause they can't move their arms and legs... they're just static sprites endowed with quantum AI and individualized personalities, codes, souls, sizes, and shades of their team colours. If someone hadn't played Darwinia, how the hell would you explain what DGs are to that person? Can you do it in 3 words or less without sounding like a CS nerd?
Anyhow, I don't think I'll ever come up with a better name than this:
GODFODDER
God game, Fodder, GodFather... what more could you want? Doesn't even need a tagline. Scrabble dictionaries are great! http://www.morewords.com/ ... The domain name is even up for sale and the only commercial use seems to be a band name. Only 543 Google hits. ... oh, and a metal label called Godfodder Records that seems to have only one band, Dublin Death Patrol. Maybe they're fans of yours, Chris?
GODFODDER : War is Fun Again
GODFODDER : War is Hilarious
GODFODDER : Hilarious Little Wars
GODFODDER : Cannons Included
GODFODDER : Slash and Burn Culture for the Digital Age
GODFODDER : a War so Fun You Can't Refuse
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:31 pm
Chris wrote:We're aiming for a fast, brutal and hilarious multiplayer wargame, set in the world of Darwinia. ... and we've absolutely no problem with slaughtering any sacred cows that get in our way.
Maybe you can bring back the "Bugs"?
The Darwinians used to hunt these cattle-like
creatures during the early years of Darwinia. The
Bugs would just fumble around the landscapes,
occasionally breaking the subsystems that made up
the world or corrupting the textures they came into
contact with. Until recently it was believed that the
Bugs had all been eradicated from Darwinia.
... for sacred slaughter, of course.
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:22 am
NeoThermic wrote:Feud wrote:shinygerbil wrote:Why not just Darwinia 2?
We could call it Darwinier. The third tittle to complete the trilogy could be called Darwiniest.
The fourth in the trilogy being Darwon?
Seconded
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:18 am
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ClobberFest : Fast, Furious, Fun
ClobberFest : Victory is a Laughing Matter
ClobberFest : Defeat is as Fun as Victory
ClobberFest : The GodFodder Wars
ClobberFest : The GodFodder Games
ClobberFest : Hilarious SoftWars
ClobberFest : SoftWars, Hardcore & Hilarious
ClobberFest : SoftWars SuperHard
ClobberFest : Games for Mortal Gods & Immortal Fodder
...kinda like Octoberfest: even the sprites are having drunken fun. (note: "Softwar" is TGF's pun, but I like it...)
ClobberFest : Fast, Furious, Fun
ClobberFest : Victory is a Laughing Matter
ClobberFest : Defeat is as Fun as Victory
ClobberFest : The GodFodder Wars
ClobberFest : The GodFodder Games
ClobberFest : Hilarious SoftWars
ClobberFest : SoftWars, Hardcore & Hilarious
ClobberFest : SoftWars SuperHard
ClobberFest : Games for Mortal Gods & Immortal Fodder
...kinda like Octoberfest: even the sprites are having drunken fun. (note: "Softwar" is TGF's pun, but I like it...)
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:23 am
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Protowinian Revelries : With the Help of the Gods, Ancient War is Alive Again
Protowinian Clobberfests : The Spirit of War is Fun Again
Protowinian Clobberfests : Worshipping Immortal War
Protowinian Clobberfests : Fodder for Gods, Frenzied Fun for All
Imagine Spock revisiting his inner berserker, only the DGs channel their protowinian savageness for the fun and pure adrenaline-driven joy of war. The Gods partake and guide the revelries and the whole festival has a semi-religious significance for the DGs. Of course the Gods have their own motives, but everyone enjoys the frenzied fodder tactics. The multiserver environment reincarnates individuals who "die", so the wars are truely games to play, governed by the crates of chance and the skills of Gods. A modern reinterpretation and reenactment of the ancient ways, when Bugs wandered freely and DGs fought to survive. Perhaps the DGs in this sector have evolved into a Warrior Caste, and these war games are part training, part initiation ritual, and part worship to the Gods of War. This is boot camp. The hardened warriors sit on the sidelines and laugh with us while drinking bitbrews.
It might make an interesting twist to the game if DGs progressively harden, so in some later rounds they don't run and scream and scatter when grenades drop, but keep on course or run around. Or maybe just a crate-spell of extra courage.
Protowinian Revelries : With the Help of the Gods, Ancient War is Alive Again
Protowinian Clobberfests : The Spirit of War is Fun Again
Protowinian Clobberfests : Worshipping Immortal War
Protowinian Clobberfests : Fodder for Gods, Frenzied Fun for All
Imagine Spock revisiting his inner berserker, only the DGs channel their protowinian savageness for the fun and pure adrenaline-driven joy of war. The Gods partake and guide the revelries and the whole festival has a semi-religious significance for the DGs. Of course the Gods have their own motives, but everyone enjoys the frenzied fodder tactics. The multiserver environment reincarnates individuals who "die", so the wars are truely games to play, governed by the crates of chance and the skills of Gods. A modern reinterpretation and reenactment of the ancient ways, when Bugs wandered freely and DGs fought to survive. Perhaps the DGs in this sector have evolved into a Warrior Caste, and these war games are part training, part initiation ritual, and part worship to the Gods of War. This is boot camp. The hardened warriors sit on the sidelines and laugh with us while drinking bitbrews.
It might make an interesting twist to the game if DGs progressively harden, so in some later rounds they don't run and scream and scatter when grenades drop, but keep on course or run around. Or maybe just a crate-spell of extra courage.
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 1:43 pm
How about Darwinia: Unleashed or Darwinia: King of the Hill ...
Not very good, I know...
Not very good, I know...
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:11 pm
Violence
or
Astounding Violence!!
(About time someone else spammed some awful names)
or
Astounding Violence!!
(About time someone else spammed some awful names)
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:46 am
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 12:36 pm
My turn! Winorlosia.
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:28 am
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Terawatt : the power of war spelled backwards
"inward" is an anagram for "Darwin", but I can't make the "war" stand out
Eat Your Greens : a war of nutrition
name it after one of the Greek gods, like KHAOS or KYDOIMOS who was the god or spirit (daimon) of the din of battle, confusion, uproar and hubbub. He was probably numbered amongst the Makhai, daimones of the battlefield. He was virtually identical to Homados (Battle-Noise)
The Din of War
Warfair : a carnival of chaos and competition
Warfarin : let the blood run
Wonderfully Amusing Raids
What A Rush
Ecological : competition, cooperation, trust, trickery & betrayal, this is war
Ecological : crush the competition or suffer the hilarious defeat
Ecological : who knew evolution could be this much fun?
Ecological : devolutionary war is fast, fun and brutal
Ecological : evo/devo speedwars are games of chance and fitness/skill
Speedevo : the war of evolution in fast-forward
Speedevo : hilarious speedwars, survival of the fittest, and chaotic defeat
Valhalla : wars eternal
Vidhalla : sprite wars eternal
Vidhalla : eternal war, immortal glory
(note: "vidhalla" is a swedish v. = "to maintain", so no ugly international conotations I know of)
P.S. I just do this sometimes when I get insomnia. It's fun like crosswords or scrabble... yeah. But really, maybe IV will tell us they've found a name, or a few people will tell me to stop ("shutup already!") spamming horrible names, or maybe, just maybe someone will get sick of my attempts and own me with a great name that knocks Chris off his feet. But it's a tough row to hoe:
Cram that into one word. The hard part is to keep it light-hearted and avoid the moral oxymoron of war being hilarious AND brutal.
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Terawatt : the power of war spelled backwards
"inward" is an anagram for "Darwin", but I can't make the "war" stand out
Eat Your Greens : a war of nutrition
name it after one of the Greek gods, like KHAOS or KYDOIMOS who was the god or spirit (daimon) of the din of battle, confusion, uproar and hubbub. He was probably numbered amongst the Makhai, daimones of the battlefield. He was virtually identical to Homados (Battle-Noise)
The Din of War
Warfair : a carnival of chaos and competition
Warfarin : let the blood run
Wonderfully Amusing Raids
What A Rush
Ecological : competition, cooperation, trust, trickery & betrayal, this is war
Ecological : crush the competition or suffer the hilarious defeat
Ecological : who knew evolution could be this much fun?
Ecological : devolutionary war is fast, fun and brutal
Ecological : evo/devo speedwars are games of chance and fitness/skill
Speedevo : the war of evolution in fast-forward
Speedevo : hilarious speedwars, survival of the fittest, and chaotic defeat
Valhalla : wars eternal
Vidhalla : sprite wars eternal
Vidhalla : eternal war, immortal glory
(note: "vidhalla" is a swedish v. = "to maintain", so no ugly international conotations I know of)
P.S. I just do this sometimes when I get insomnia. It's fun like crosswords or scrabble... yeah. But really, maybe IV will tell us they've found a name, or a few people will tell me to stop ("shutup already!") spamming horrible names, or maybe, just maybe someone will get sick of my attempts and own me with a great name that knocks Chris off his feet. But it's a tough row to hoe:
Chris wrote:We're aiming for a fast, brutal and hilarious multiplayer wargame, set in the world of Darwinia. ... We are fairly sure we don't want the word Darwinia in the main title at all. We want something that represents the fun crazy action multiplayer game we are trying to make.
Cram that into one word. The hard part is to keep it light-hearted and avoid the moral oxymoron of war being hilarious AND brutal.
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