You inspired me to write a program to combine IF game names ... here are some results (all randomly created from Baf's Guide):
Planet of the Infinite Galaxy Thermonuclear Toothless Vampire The Frenetic Five vs. Mr. Come to an End The Obscene Quest of Dr. House Husband Zork: The Cavern of Education Hey, I'm Supposed to get the Blues Whom Return to the Colossal Cave Comp00ter Orc Savoir Tortoise Nothing But Dragons What? No Universe The Silence Snail A Bear's Night Conspiracy Secret Quest Butlers I'm from the Crazy Place Who Created Main Hall and Beginners Cave I Rescued Elvis from Communist Chinese Room Shards of Yogurt The Sofa Cometh She's Got a Thing for San Francisco 1906 We Ate New York The Shopping Cave Adventure You are Beans Oh No Book 1 It's About itching The Incredible Shrinking Caves Generic New York Apartment Fire Dragon Poor scenario Westfront II: the Edge of Disaster
A few actually sound like interesting games:
Define Conspiracy The Secret Diary of the Troubled Spirit Hide All Heroes Spy Dragon Travels in the Land of Angels Snow Ruby My Name is Terror
> You inspired me to write a program to combine IF game names ... here are > some results (all randomly created from Baf's Guide):
> Planet of the Infinite Galaxy > Thermonuclear Toothless Vampire > The Frenetic Five vs. Mr. Come to an End > The Obscene Quest of Dr. House Husband > Zork: The Cavern of Education > Hey, I'm Supposed to get the Blues > Whom Return to the Colossal Cave > Comp00ter Orc > Savoir Tortoise > Nothing But Dragons > What? No Universe > The Silence Snail > A Bear's Night Conspiracy > Secret Quest Butlers > I'm from the Crazy Place > Who Created Main Hall and Beginners Cave > I Rescued Elvis from Communist Chinese Room > Shards of Yogurt > The Sofa Cometh > She's Got a Thing for San Francisco 1906 > We Ate New York > The Shopping Cave Adventure > You are Beans > Oh No Book 1 > It's About itching > The Incredible Shrinking Caves > Generic New York Apartment Fire Dragon > Poor scenario > Westfront II: the Edge of Disaster
> A few actually sound like interesting games:
> Define Conspiracy > The Secret Diary of the Troubled Spirit > Hide All Heroes > Spy Dragon > Travels in the Land of Angels > Snow Ruby > My Name is Terror
>I only say "LOL" when I actually _do_ laugh out loud.
> LOL. Thanks, David.
You really shouldn't encourage me, you know ... here are a few more that I liked, then:
Guitar Lesson of the Tortoise Robots - Another abuse of Time Machine The Sound of Jump Up and Down Screaming Lost in Space: Dr. Smith Goes Marie Antoinette Escape from the Crazy Intruder The Battle of Philip against the Forces of Cat in the Tree Diary of Obstruction Dracula Episode 1: String The Jewels of Misdirection The Onion Trials of a Warrior Sherlock Holmes in the Case Isn't Enough Enhanced Feature The Orb of Heat The Adventures of the President of the Chalupa The Underground Pyramids of Mars Forever Pig Adoo's Stinky Invasion She's Got a Dog's Life Goose, be Free Range Dungeon of Foe The Underoos that Ate to Freedom The Six-Foot-Tall Man is Nigh Small Building Journey to the Center of Mr. Ed The Door to Cow Shop Bored Elephant Guitar of the Caribou I don't remember why this game is Part 1 Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out Of Andrew Plotkin Slouching Towards St. Bride's Human Robots
I think "Dungeon of Foe" has to be made one day.
And "The Orb of Heat" is nicely understated, along with "Small Building" and "Enhanced Feature" (don't overpromise to the player, I guess ...)
(Mike Tabert: Yes, they really are random! Just with some words deleted occasionally for aesthetic reasons ...)
On Mar 2, 9:01 pm, "David Fisher" <davidfis...@australiaonline.net.au> wrote:
> A few actually sound like interesting games:
> Define Conspiracy > The Secret Diary of the Troubled Spirit > Hide All Heroes > Spy Dragon > Travels in the Land of Angels > Snow Ruby > My Name is Terror
> David Fisher
The more I think about this, the more I'm troubled by how ridiculously good some of these names sound in comparison to the original games.
I especially like 'Hide All Heroes', though I was mis-remembering it today at work as 'Hide Our Heroes'. Here is the basic premise. Your country is hours away from invasion and your government knows it can't win. So in an effort to maintain one last vestige of hope they go to their heroes of past wars, men and women who were amazingly strong, smart, courageous, and powerful, but are now elderly, infirm, senile, and weak. They sample all their DNA and entrust the samples to -you-. Your mission is to deliver the DNA to secret cloning laboratories spread throughout the country. Meanwhlie the stormtroopers of the invaders will try to stop you. Hilarity ensues!
On Mar 3, 6:31 pm, "David Fisher" <davidfis...@australiaonline.net.au> wrote:
> I think "Dungeon of Foe" has to be made one day.
> And "The Orb of Heat" is nicely understated, along with "Small Building" and > "Enhanced Feature" (don't overpromise to the player, I guess ...)
> (Mike Tabert: Yes, they really are random! Just with some words deleted > occasionally for aesthetic reasons ...)
> David Fisher
I really like your IF name generator, David. Will you release it for us to download or maybe put it up somewhere on the web? I'd love to use it as the starting push to a new game when I don't have a good idea.
> I really like your IF name generator, David. Will you release it for > us to download or maybe put it up somewhere on the web? I'd love to > use it as the starting push to a new game when I don't have a good > idea.
Er, it's a short C program and a shell script -- if that works for you, then I can send it to you.
The formula is pretty simple, though, if you want to reproduce it:
* Get a list of game names (I can send you the list I extracted from Baf's guide if you like). * Make a list of possible prefixes, eg. for "Zero Sum Game", it would be "Zero" and "Zero Sum". * Make a list of possible suffixes, eg. for "Zero Sum Game", "Sum Game" and "Game". * Print a random prefix and a random suffix.
Only about one in twenty make the slightest bit of sense, though ...
I can't resist -- here are a few more:
She's Got a Thing for Murders The Forest in the Village Concrete Immortal Pirates and Ninjas on the Roof The Creature Dancers A Fistful of History The President, An Ordinary Ballerina The Man from Next Morning Dinner of Malice Moral of the Moon A Day for Fresh Hope My Name is Jack the Magic Healing Plant Escape from Land The Domes of Repeating Little Blue Dilly Spider Space! Arnold the Adventurer Caribou Slap That Day Out The Battle of Philip against Love Common Infested Fortress Sabotage Magic The Elf's Hands Catch That Black Death
> "Busman" <busman1...@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:1e41ec4c-f345-43ef-b452-73c15a6b962c@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com... >> I really like your IF name generator, David. Will you release it for >> us to download or maybe put it up somewhere on the web? I'd love to >> use it as the starting push to a new game when I don't have a good >> idea.
> Er, it's a short C program and a shell script -- if that works for you, then > I can send it to you.
> The formula is pretty simple, though, if you want to reproduce it:
> * Get a list of game names (I can send you the list I extracted from Baf's > guide if you like).
If you send me the game list I can recreate the generator as a web app.
Juhana
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> > I really like your IF name generator, David. Will you release it for > > us to download or maybe put it up somewhere on the web? I'd love to > > use it as the starting push to a new game when I don't have a good > > idea.
> Er, it's a short C program and a shell script -- if that works for you, then > I can send it to you.
> The formula is pretty simple, though, if you want to reproduce it:
> * Get a list of game names (I can send you the list I extracted from Baf's > guide if you like). > * Make a list of possible prefixes, eg. for "Zero Sum Game", it would be > "Zero" and "Zero Sum". > * Make a list of possible suffixes, eg. for "Zero Sum Game", "Sum Game" and > "Game". > * Print a random prefix and a random suffix.
> Only about one in twenty make the slightest bit of sense, though ...
Thanks for the offer, David, but I've never touched C before so I probably wouldn't know what to do with the code. I only understand I7 and some beginning TADS 3.
However, Juhana's idea of making it a web app will probably benefit everyone.
> On Mar 2, 9:01 pm, "David Fisher" <davidfis...@australiaonline.net.au> > wrote:
> > A few actually sound like interesting games:
> > Define Conspiracy > > The Secret Diary of the Troubled Spirit > > Hide All Heroes > > Spy Dragon > > Travels in the Land of Angels > > Snow Ruby > > My Name is Terror
> > David Fisher
> The more I think about this, the more I'm troubled by how ridiculously > good some of these names sound in comparison to the original games.
> I especially like 'Hide All Heroes', though I was mis-remembering it > today at work as 'Hide Our Heroes'. Here is the basic premise. Your > country is hours away from invasion and your government knows it can't > win. So in an effort to maintain one last vestige of hope they go to > their heroes of past wars, men and women who were amazingly strong, > smart, courageous, and powerful, but are now elderly, infirm, senile, > and weak. They sample all their DNA and entrust the samples to -you-. > Your mission is to deliver the DNA to secret cloning laboratories > spread throughout the country. Meanwhlie the stormtroopers of the > invaders will try to stop you. Hilarity ensues!
That doesn't appeal to me, so I'll have to pass. I can beta-test it, though.
(My personal instincts would lead me to "Define Conspiracy", "Travels in the Land of Angels", "Snow Ruby", or "My Name is Terror". Then again, I favor Romantic works. "Snow Ruby" particular reminds me of a Russian phrase for bodies that were unearthed by the melting of the Siberian snow.)
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Here, Busman <busman1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 4, 5:36 pm, "David Fisher" <davidfis...@australiaonline.net.au> > wrote:
> > The formula is pretty simple, though, if you want to reproduce it:
> > * Get a list of game names (I can send you the list I extracted from Baf's > > guide if you like). > > * Make a list of possible prefixes, eg. for "Zero Sum Game", it would be > > "Zero" and "Zero Sum". > > * Make a list of possible suffixes, eg. for "Zero Sum Game", "Sum Game" and > > "Game". > > * Print a random prefix and a random suffix.
> > Only about one in twenty make the slightest bit of sense, though ...
> Thanks for the offer, David, but I've never touched C before so I > probably wouldn't know what to do with the code. I only understand I7 > and some beginning TADS 3.
A couple of I7 tables and "choose a random row" lines, then.
--Z
-- "And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..." * When Bush says "Stay the course," what he means is "I don't know what to do next." He's been saying this for years now.
On Mar 5, 11:23 am, Andrew Plotkin <erkyr...@eblong.com> wrote:
> A couple of I7 tables and "choose a random row" lines, then.
> --Z
> -- > "And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..." > * > When Bush says "Stay the course," what he means is "I don't know what to > do next." He's been saying this for years now.
Yes, that's right, Andrew. It is very easy now that you point that out. Thanks.
Generating names is surprisingly fun. My personal favorites so far:
Goose, Egg, Mini-Zork Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Evil Sea Grape Sherlock Holmes: The Lamberly Radioactive Monkey! Kids, don't eat your Halloween candy without Pantomime And the Waves Choke To End All Games
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Game Without a Museum Dreary Mutiny! Insanity of Yogurt Bears, Aliens Laughed at my Cardigan Glass Bard Reality Apple Blighted Heist Being Andrew the Phoenix Narcolepsy of Adrian Mole Evil Lesson of the Tortoise Toddler's Z-Chess Impact Yourself Casino Mage Amusement Masterpiece
> Generating names is surprisingly fun. My personal favorites so far:
> Goose, Egg, Mini-Zork > Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Evil Sea Grape > Sherlock Holmes: The Lamberly Radioactive Monkey! > Kids, don't eat your Halloween candy without Pantomime > And the Waves Choke To End All Games
Some of these things make surprising sense. :)
Suppose that...
... George Orwell wrote a happy sequel to 1984.
"1999: A Utopia"
... Paul Allen Panks was upfront about the programming errors in his earliest game.
"Paul's First Overflow"
... the Count liked to swim in it, as other aristocrats like to swim in champaign.
"Dracula's in the Blood"
... someone _really_ went over the top with the demons, blood, zombies and slime.
"Apocalypse Death's House of Horrors"
... another rushed and half-implemented fantasy adventure got submitted to the IF Comp.
"Deadline Castle"
... when you reply to your nasty boss's email about reserving a table for two for him in a very expensive restaurant, you 'accidentally' include his wife in the recepients.
"CC of Vengeance"
... someone really got fed-up with the Thief in Zork.
"Die Pickpocket"
... we get to explore the factory where they make special effects for the Apocalypse.
"Doomsday Waxworks"
... the Jesus detector of the Enterprise beeps!
"Religious Alert on Aleph V!"
... the Emperor had been too stubborn to return to France when it became obvious his attempt to conquer Russia was doomed.
"Frozen Napoleon"
... the main puzzle is to get your pet to stop misbehaving.
"Don't and the Dog"
... Z-abuses were far more horrible than we all think.
"Escape from Z-Chess"
... your interpreter crashes--again!
"Curse Personal Computer? "
... SimPrison was released as an IF project.
"Alcatraz Corporation"
... knights were never the same after the invention of automatic weapons.
"1999: A Quite Brief Joust"
... this guy _almost_ managed to beat Z-Chess.
"Death to my Endgame"
... the kids today never play outside anymore.
"Fran and Bart Want a Computer Game "
... to spite France, the Kremlin planned a very special Sputnik misson.
"Napoleon on the Moon"
... somebody finally took advantage of free software!
"An Escape Enhanced"
... and so did someone else, with more artistic license.
"Mutant Varkana"
... there were travel guides for people with special interests in eating fruit and avoiding ghosts.
"Bolivia By Pac-Man"
... in these secular times, we need more proof than just some miraculous Grail.
"Quest for the Holy God"
... Andrew Plotkin started releasing karaoke versions of his works.
"Spider and Song"
... we get yet another prequel.
"Mother of Monte Cristo"
... paleontologists find out facts we did not want to know.
"A Stegosaur's Pantomime"
... another author has had it with simulationism.
"No Liquid"
... the guards might have misunderstood their villainous master. "You escaped, vile prisoner? You come with us--our orders are very clear!"
"Escape and Dye"
Regards, Victor
PS. And let's hope nobody ever writes either "Across the Sleeping Princess" or "Cannibal Wonderland".
Thanks Juhana for hosting the name generator. It is certainly useful.
I'm trying to recover from laughing at Victor's game names now. Maybe we should do a comp for humorous games. I'd really like to see the Napolean ones.
This one is not funny but the name is powerful. Maybe someone would tackle this. Sound like I'd need a bucket for my tears playing this game. Love's Reverberations
Kritsada Piriyakitpaiboon wrote: > I'm trying to recover from laughing at Victor's game names now. Maybe > we should do a comp for humorous games. I'd really like to see the > Napolean ones.
I want to update my description of the Dracula one.
Suppose that...
... the Count was a regular reader of Lady Bathory's beauty advice articles in The Transylvanian Daily.
Kritsada Piriyakitpaiboon wrote: > I'm trying to recover from laughing at Victor's game names now. Maybe > we should do a comp for humorous games. I'd really like to see the > Napolean ones.
Bullying is still a major problem among ghosts.
"Haunted Phantom"
Don't get ill when you're within range of _this_ institution.
"Prehistoric Hospital"
Maestro Michael has an evil scheme to disrupt the concerts of his competitors, and you are one of his people.
"Cough Duty"
When you _really_ have multiple personality disorder.
"Identity 98"
It seems fun when you see the photographs of smiling babies, but in practice...
"Disenchanted Mom"
It's harder than you think!
"Losing Your Jade Necklace"
There is _something_ beneath the Sphinx all right, it's just not what Erich van Däniken thinks!
"Casino Caverns of the Sphinx"
He's back. And he's mad.
"Curse of Sisyphus"
Sick humour.
"Little Green Laugh"
Another horrible evening at your parents in law's.
"Dinner Discord"
The students thought they could get away with anything... boy, were they wrong!
"Revenge of Five Tutors"
Just play it, and you will.
"I don't remember why this game is called test/demo scenario"
And there is a bunch for the AIF-crowd, especially those interested in kinky stuff:
"Moist the Dungeonkeeper" "Best of Body Revisited" "Moist Dogboy" "Savage Search for Amanda" "The Warlord, The Princess & Punches"
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