3 We agreed we should TAKE OUR TIME in picking out a proper name.
4 We have a plan A/B for ideal name choice
5 A) A name with an available .com (we'll of course get the .org too)
6 B) A name without an available .com - but some variation like <name>game.com available
8 - We should have name that is unique (as much as possible)
9 - We should have a name without an existing meaning (like nexuiz)
10 - We should have a name that people can pronounce
11 - We need to think of a symbol for our game as well (aside from the kanji "n" that nexuiz uses)
16 PICK FROM THE LIST YOUR TOP CHOICES and send dokujisan your list. Keep in mind that you're picking the
17 ones that don't completely suck. They dont have to be perfect, but they can give us a direction.
18 We need to start with a bulk list. We still hve more brainstorming for names to do.
20 *This isn't the final list*
22 You guys picking from this list will help with future brainstorming.
25 h1. NOT AVAILABLE .COMs
225 *NOT AVAILABLE .COMs*
245 *NOT AVAILABLE .COMs*
281 *NOT AVAILABLE .COMs*
316 h1. C.Brutail's Picks
329 My favorite pick would be:
332 These are just suggestions, I'm not happy with any of them tbh (except Pheonix, but that was really shot down by other :D )
341 tairyoku ..... stamina
342 chikara ..... force / strength
345 ryushutsu ..... exodus
347 komyuniti ..... community
349 bakuhatsu ..... explosion
354 hitobito ..... people
358 danryoku ..... resilience
360 noryoku ..... ability
366 kessaku ..... masterpiece
384 h1. FruitieX 's Picks
388 h1. divVerent's Picks
390 MragMest (russian origin, Dark Place)
391 MIPAS (Mutuaully Inexclusive Posts Are Stupid)
392 BRLOGENSHFEGLE (not really, we'll settle on that if we don't find anything within 1 week from retrieving this wiki page)
398 Kinky Polka Police, zone xi nut :D
402 *As to stay true and share a little laugh, here's the piratepad copy of actual names, votes, and whatnot that happened during brainstorming:*
405 Suggested names by everyone, please don't repeat
406 Lets just combine them in a large list, no names added. This will remove redundancy.
411 1)The names must not names of medicine/disease
413 2)The names must be able to be phonetically pronounced
415 3)The names must have less than a 1000 hits on Google
418 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?
419 Hard limit isn't good, it's able to be recognized when a name is insanely long.
423 Logo example http://www.nullgaming.com/stuff/forkuiz_logo_idea1.jpg
424 //I know it's only an example, but it looks like an xray of a vertebra (backbone)
425 whatever, just imagine some phoenix inspired image
426 //http://dclips.fundraw.com/pngmax/doctormo_Phoeonix.png very large png, beware
429 http://dev.cankill.us/projects/notnexuiz/wiki/Names
433 Why do you think it would be a good idea?
434 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)
435 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
436 Itoma: In Japanese it means "free, free time, and to wave goodbye" Also, simple.
437 Xonotic: Sounds badass, and low hits on google. and very unique... it's like aquatic but some space-alien type of origin.
438 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...
439 Akionix: Sounds fine, easy to pronounce, and only 33 hits from google
442 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)
444 Does meet 1000 hits criteria:
449 Vote for the names you like here.
451 mand1nga: Xonotic, Akion
452 Samual: Akion, Itoma, Xenotic
453 FruitieX: Xenoty, Xonotic, Itoma (in that order)
454 C.Brutail: Itoma, Xonotic (in that order)
455 Doku: xonotic, akion, itoma (in that order)
458 <we will count votes sometime in the future so no one is influenced>
460 and the name is (drumroll) .... :
463 //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.
464 //This is a NEW project, a unique name is critical
465 // News releases will rapidly bring any name used to the top of the results, I think.
466 // Most of our links come from the reviewers, or message boards
467 // That should already be a couple.
468 //Just consider this, it's best to be innovative with names, that's how they get remembered
469 // I maintain that 1000 is too low, it'll disqualify nearly all names that aren't extremely unique.
470 // Best of the best, I'd say...
471 // thats why we need a name like ARHEULRCEH<RYGCRDIEMONTU or so
472 // New criteria: It needs to be shorter than 12 letters
473 // Memorable trumps unique, I think. E.g. Ubuntu
474 // Would anyone remember how to type ARHEULRCEH<RYGCRDIEMONTU?
475 // 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 :).
476 // if this pad is crawled by google then we should substract 1 to the amount of hits :>
477 //This pad is WIP, and in javascript.
479 //Bad news, xenotic.com/.org is taken... so what now? - Xenoty :)))
480 //We can use these criteria to filter our potential names
481 //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