Thoughts on the name

[Hypnotoad]

It's three lengthy, obscure words that mean absolutely nothing combined.

It's only 3 syllables, and only 1 letter more than skulltag. As far as I understand it, it was combined from 2 names lots of people wanted (infernum, meaning hell, and Andromeda), plus a z for zdoom. So it's not completely arbitrary; it combines 2 major themes of this port, space and hell (doom).

[Tribeam]

It means Zdoom Space Hell

Zdoom + Andromeda + infurnum = Zandronum

Simple as that

[esselfortium]

None of those words or their meanings are even slightly apparent in the combined name, though. It's like if Skulltag had been named by combining Skeletal and Runaround to explain the gamemode as Skeleround. The significance is completely lost because of how much the words are mashed up.

[infurnus]

Skeleround

Now I'm free to see the wooooooorld

[Igor]

IGOR THINK STARTAN3 WOULD BE BETTER NAME THAN SKELEROUND

[esselfortium]

Essel think Igor stole idea for Startan3

But Essel still agree on Startan3 for name

[Zap610]

If it means people will stop yelling at us I'm all for it!

[esselfortium]

And people can even keep abbreviating it as ST!

[infurnus]

Ok guys, I hear you.

I was thinking, if needed, there could be a relationship with the "fancy name" and the development name like what Google Chrome has with Chromium.
We could refer to Zandronum as "Zandronum Engine" or such, like I heard some suggest on IRC. Just throwing out ideas.

[Dark-Assassin]

So people want this texture for a name?



I myself am not sure on it. But also same with Zandronum.

[esselfortium]

Startan3 is short, it's techy, it's a more direct Doom reference than Zandronum, it sounds like "spartan" which is appropriate for DM, and you can abbreviate it as "ST". It also refers to space and the color brown, which are the two doomiest things possible.

[Moti]

I still don't even know how to pronounce this name.

I dunno guys, this is gonna take me a while to get used to..

[Medicris]

I still don't even know how to pronounce this name.

I dunno guys, this is gonna take me a while to get used to..

Lol what.

ZAN-droh-numm.

Sounds perfectly natural to me, especially now that I know its intended meaning.

Though if the z is just for zdoom, then I suggest it be stylized as zAndronum.

[Devon]

I don't like the name to be honest, can't we just keep it as skulltag?

[Medicris]

No, since Carn owns the Skilltag name and because of this all ST exclusive content is not bundled with Zandronum at the moment, but there is a backwards compatibility package available to play wads reliant on ST content for the time being.

[Zeberpal]

If only i knew about this site week ago and if i knew that Zandronum will be claimed as SKulltag's disciple..It's just doesn't make sence to me still how you guys have choosen this name .Yes, you can keep ignore and muting for name drama on irc, but will you win on that in the end?
You may think i'm stupid or retard, though there are people've been saying that title sounds extremely confusing and hard pronouncable and i'm agree with them. For foreign persons expecially.
Infernum and [strike]Afterlife[/strike], what was wrong with these.. Infernum even fits with heretic/hexen/strife theme. And logo.. Skulltag had some neutral font, this one is pure sci-fi (sorry Infurnus once again).
That's made me sad.

[Cennou]

Seriously, the name? you could of thought of something better

[AlexMax]

Not going to lie, Zandronum is a pretty mediocre name at first glance.

However, the only better names I heard during naming discussions, both in this thread and before the fork was made public, were "Infernum" and "Altdeath". And honestly, I think that with the name already picked out and the domains bought, it's not worth going through yet another "woah what is happening" just to switch to another name that people will still doubtlessly complain about.

When it all comes down to it, complaining about the name is just bikeshedding...in other words it's not even close to the most important thing about the project, but it is an easy thing to have an opinion about, so people do. If the name bothers you, just call it "Zan" or "Zand" or "Zandro" or whatever.

EDIT: It's probably also worth mentioning that not everybody was a fan of "Odamex" at first either.

[Twister]

I have a few thoughts, all of which may get rejected at one point or another

ZTag, (sounds too much like SkullTag)

Twister, (Automatically denied)

Tei Tenga, (Nah... but keeping all ideas in this post)

Doomsicle, (For the lulz)

GLoom, (Maybe...)

Alpha, (I could see many cool designs with this name)

Eclipse, (Worth a try)

Cobalt, (It's blue... that is all)

Owens Corning Fiberglass Insulation, (Trolololl)

ZBone, (Maybe...)

Future Doom, (Kinda cheesy, and probably the name of a WAD)

NeoTag, (sounds too much like SkullTag)

Spine, (Meh...)

Rebirth, (Another though)

Twister, (Gonna give it one more shot)

[Avi]

Being the type to intentionally learn a bunch of languages for no real reason, I can say that Zandronum (is that how it's.. holy shit, got it right the first try lol) is definitely a convoluted name. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I can see where the "Hell in Outerspace version of Zdoom" can he a fuck-ton to say to your friends when you're trying to convince them to try out something oldschool.

So, in a nutshell, I like the logic behind Startan3. My vote's for Essel's name choice. (Even though it's kind of official now that it's registered as a domain and everything.) But regardless of the name, I'm fuckin' pumped for this.