4 We agreed we should TAKE OUR TIME in picking out a proper name.
5 We have a plan A/B for ideal name choice
6 A) A name with an available .com (we’ll of course get the .org too)
7 B) A name without an available .com - but some variation like <name>game.com available
9 - We should have name that is unique (as much as possible)
10 - We should have a name without an existing meaning (like nexuiz)
11 - We should have a name that people can pronounce
12 - We need to think of a symbol for our game as well (aside from the kanji “n” that nexuiz uses)
17 PICK FROM THE LIST YOUR TOP CHOICES and send dokujisan your list. Keep in mind that you’re picking the
18 ones that don’t completely suck. They dont have to be perfect, but they can give us a direction.
19 We need to start with a bulk list. We still hve more brainstorming for names to do.
21 **This isn’t the final list**
23 You guys picking from this list will help with future brainstorming.
224 ### NOT AVAILABLE .COMs
246 ### NOT AVAILABLE .COMs
267 ### AVAILABLE .COMs\*
280 ### NOT AVAILABLE .COMs
332 My favorite pick would be:
335 These are just suggestions, I’m not happy with any of them tbh (except Pheonix, but that was really shot down by other :D )
346 chikara ….. force / strength
351 komyuniti ….. community
353 bakuhatsu ….. explosion
362 danryoku ….. resilience
370 kessaku ….. masterpiece
396 MragMest (Russian origin, Dark Place)
397 MIPAS (Mutuaully Inexclusive Posts Are Stupid)
398 BRLOGENSHFEGLE (not really, we’ll settle on that if we don’t find anything within 1 week from retrieving this wiki page)
405 Kinky Polka Police, zone xi nut :D
410 **As to stay true and share a little laugh, here’s the piratepad copy of actual names, votes, and whatnot that happened during brainstorming:**
414 Suggested names by everyone, please don’t repeat
415 Lets just combine them in a large list, no names added. This will remove redundancy.
419 1. The names must not names of medicine/disease
420 2. The names must be able to be phonetically pronounced
421 3. The names must have less than a 1000 hits on Google
423 ### Criteria Discussion:
425 8 or less chars? 10 would be a better max why? I like shorter, but good names can be longer :) then why not up it to 20 why 10?
426 Hard limit isn’t good, it’s able to be recognized when a name is insanely long.
428 Logo example http://www.nullgaming.com/stuff/forkuiz\_logo\_idea1.jpg
429 //I know it’s only an example, but it looks like an xray of a vertebra (backbone)
430 whatever, just imagine some phoenix inspired image
431 //http://dclips.fundraw.com/pngmax/doctormo\_Phoeonix.png very large png, beware
435 http://dev.cankill.us/projects/notnexuiz/wiki/Names
438 Why do you think it would be a good idea?
439 \* Neuxiom: Portmanteau of New and Axiom, pronoucable, has only 1 hit on Google, and uses most of the letters from Nexuiz, thus enhancing recognition. difficult to pronounce Logical truncation of it is “Neux”, which is ambiguous when pronounced (Nukes vs Neux)
440 It’s suppose to be pronoucned as French, but NewX also works Neu-ee-om? Neu-ecks I mean the full name. Alone I’d pronounce Neux as in veux, but inside “Neuxiom” I’d use a hard X. (Nooks-ee-om is also possible). That’s intended, it’s a combination of New Axiom into one word
441 \* Itoma: In Japanese it means “free, free time, and to wave goodbye” Also, simple.
442 \* Xonotic: Sounds badass, and low hits on google. and very unique… it’s like aquatic but some space-alien type of origin.
443 \* Akion: Hehh, it’s C.Brutail’s other nickname, it can’t be anything but cool :D no, seriously, it’s just considered good by others, I strongly dislike it… however…
444 \* Akionix: Sounds fine, easy to pronounce, and only 33 hits from google
446 Does not meet criteria: Akion (25000 hits), Itoma (639,000 hits), kenryoku (60,600 hits), pulse (65,500,000 hits), crux (5,980,000 hits, is also a noun, Linux distro), Xenatic (33,600 hits), Maven (10,200,000 hits, it is english word and means expert ), Xenoty (5,140 hits), Nexotic (9,710 hits), Yennu (17,600 hits)
448 Does meet 1000 hits criteria:
453 Vote for the names you like here.
455 mand1nga: Xonotic, Akion
456 Samual: Akion, Itoma, Xenotic
457 FruitieX: Xenoty, Xonotic, Itoma (in that order)
458 C.Brutail: Itoma, Xonotic (in that order)
459 Doku: xonotic, akion, itoma (in that order)
462 <we will count votes sometime in the future so no one is influenced>
464 and the name is (drumroll) …. :
467 //I suggest 2 criteria: 1) The names must not names of medicine/disease 2) They must have less than 1000 hits on Google; IMO that’s too arbitrary. A project I contribute too tops our rankings, but there are over 100,000 unrelated hits.
468 //This is a NEW project, a unique name is critical
469 // News releases will rapidly bring any name used to the top of the results, I think.
470 // Most of our links come from the reviewers, or message boards
471 // That should already be a couple.
472 //Just consider this, it’s best to be innovative with names, that’s how they get remembered
473 // I maintain that 1000 is too low, it’ll disqualify nearly all names that aren’t extremely unique.
474 // Best of the best, I’d say…
475 // thats why we need a name like ARHEULRCEH<RYGCRDIEMONTU or so
476 // New criteria: It needs to be shorter than 12 letters
477 // Memorable trumps unique, I think. E.g. Ubuntu
478 // Would anyone remember how to type ARHEULRCEH<RYGCRDIEMONTU?
479 // No, and I think most of the non-obvious names should be ruled out. If you can't convey the spelling by saying it, it's bad. (E.g. "Zenjumps" works, "Xenjumpz" does not.) This is called phonetical :).
480 // if this pad is crawled by google then we should substract 1 to the amount of hits :>
481 //This pad is WIP, and in javascript.
483 //Bad news, xenotic.com/.org is taken… so what now? - Xenoty :)))
484 //We can use these criteria to filter our potential names
485 //The reason why we need less than a certain number of hits, is because we won’t be found on a search engine if we don’t, this is why Nexuiz is not an existing noun
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