This is important. Discuss.
Currently proposed names:
Gavil
Infernum
Fork name
RE: Fork name
Like I said on IRC, since we couldn't find any perfect enough name, even with the help of altdeath/wtf, I propose leaving this for community discussion. Let the players themselves submit ideas here and have Torr Samaho choose.
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RE: Fork name
I'm fine with letting the public help us to find a name. Does anybody have objections?
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Stipsi
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RE: Fork name
Yeah I think letting people unleash their imagination is a great move.
In any case if anyone here has some name to suggest, feel free to do so!
In any case if anyone here has some name to suggest, feel free to do so!
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RE: Fork name
It would be much more organized if these discussion could be held on a forum, perhaps this one. Along with the port name, it may be equally important to also be able to discuss other ideas for the port such as the theme, on the forum.
RE: Fork name
You can ask the community if you want. My personal experience though is that the community is really uncreative when it comes to naming (I believe I asked them to name Doomseeker and didn't really get anything. IIRC they never could wrap their heads around the fact that I didn't want a name with "Skulltag" in it.). Maybe people will think more about a name for Skulltag, but my guess is you're just going to get a bunch of people telling you to call it "Skulltag."
A name really isn't as important as you all try to make it out to be. People will really only care for about a week and then it will grow on them, whatever it may be. Just think about the Wii. Worst name for a console ever and yet I no longer see anyone insisting on calling it the Nintendo Revolution.
Personally I vote for calling it Altdeath.
A name really isn't as important as you all try to make it out to be. People will really only care for about a week and then it will grow on them, whatever it may be. Just think about the Wii. Worst name for a console ever and yet I no longer see anyone insisting on calling it the Nintendo Revolution.
Personally I vote for calling it Altdeath.
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RE: Fork name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVMib1T4T4Blzut3 wrote:Personally I vote for calling it Altdeath.
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Edward-san
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RE: Fork name
We should keep the '(Z)Doom' tag inside the fork name imho.
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RE: Fork name
Hmm, but then we also support other IDTech1 games, not just Doom.
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RE: Fork name
Not sure I get it. Unless AlexMax retracted his statement, I don't see a problem with the name.Stipsi wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVMib1T4T4
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There was an issue of it being a kick in the face for Carnevil considering what happened the last time we touched ground with him. I like the name in itself, but others don't.
In any case, going completely against the other thread I posted in Off-topic and deciding to think on 6 hours of sleep, I came up with the name "Gavil".
It's a intentional play on the Mongolian pronunciation of the word "гавал" (pronounced "gaval" in English, the Mongol word for "skull"). It'd also bring us a wicked hammer logo too since the English pronunciation is in association with a gavel hammer.
Domaintyper shows that only the .com name for this is actually taken, and it's unused for any real project so we won't have any fear of overlapping trademarks.
In any case, going completely against the other thread I posted in Off-topic and deciding to think on 6 hours of sleep, I came up with the name "Gavil".
It's a intentional play on the Mongolian pronunciation of the word "гавал" (pronounced "gaval" in English, the Mongol word for "skull"). It'd also bring us a wicked hammer logo too since the English pronunciation is in association with a gavel hammer.
Domaintyper shows that only the .com name for this is actually taken, and it's unused for any real project so we won't have any fear of overlapping trademarks.
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RE: Fork name
If we use this, I'd probably suggest http://www.gavil.net/ as it isn't even taken by anything at all.
But then .com outdoes .net
But then .com outdoes .net
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RE: Fork name
That means such a name doesn't fit IMO as name for a doom port. Also AltDeath is well known in the community as a bad place, full of drama (AltDrama) and stuff. I'm fully agreed on what Dynamo and K6 say here:Blzut3 wrote: Not sure I get it. Unless AlexMax retracted his statement, I don't see a problem with the name.
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<@K6|AFK> so uncreative when this name is already known in the community as something bad--Ital beast
RE: Fork name
I like Gavil so far. AltDeath is a good name for a multiplayer Doom port, but it does have a negative connotation now.
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RE: Fork name
Me and AlexMax really like the name Infernum (which is Latin for hell), the domain could be something like infernum-doom.com or infernum-online or whatever. Even torr said that it wasn't bad.
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RE: Fork name
Don't like Gavil, as alexmax said, it sounds stupid when you say it out loud.
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RE: Fork name
I like the name "Infernum". I even made a bit of a prototype text for the logo (WIP):
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I'm flattered.