A Generated Monster Every Friday!

I don't want randomized names because they'd probably sound weird and/or like a foreign language.

 

Better that then Tiy & Team having to think up 10+ BILLION Names & the game being delayed till the year 3000...

 

Random things are always fun!
Imagine randoming a name that's "F'sforfun"
Wouldn't that make you laugh?

 

For that particular example name... I'm 50% chance '' & 50% chance '', depending on my mood at that moment.

 

Thats exactly what I was aiming for

 

More likely to be billions of guns to be named.

 

Well I feel like it's going to end up being something like:

"Where are you?"
"I'm fighting Aalfldjlsljkls and Woijdoksnldsmls with my Adjaoejsmek gun"

Which would be nightmarish over voice chat ._.

 

the guns might use the borderland way of naming "Manufacturer Model Suffix1 Suffix2"

and for the monsters something less random

 

Monster names will probably be related to their parts. Something might be Tentashellsaurus. (a dinosaurish thing with tentacles and a shell)

 

I'd definitely have to say the number 19 is my favorite so far. Looks very, very well done.

 

Hey! Have more faith in Tiy & Team... i'm sure they can do WAY better than that...

 

But I remember someone bringing it up like that on the forums a few months back, and one of the devs liking the idea... so I don't know

 

If worst comes to worst, they'll chain together random phonograms for monster names. So you'll get names "Uroyaugh" or "Tchoowh". Weapon parts could have their own names, so that all guns are made of three parts; Handle (brand name), Muzzle ("attribute"), and Chamber (Model name). If we have the "Typhoon" chamber, "RiggTech" handle, and "Gale" Muzzle, Buzzy's phrase transforms into "I'm fighting Uroyaughs and Tchoowhs with my 'RiggTech' Gale Typhoon." which actually sounds nice.

 

The gun name sounds sexy, but as for the rest of the revised quote... umm...

 

Would you rather fight Tchoowhs or Woijdoksnldsmls?

 

Have ya forgotten the Monster we've seen in early Screenies called something like the "Krabmikazee"? I think Tiy & Team have the Name Making Systems down.

 

I believe the Krabmikaze was a pre-made mob, not a procedurally generated one. Keep in mind that there are still going to be lots of pre-made mobs.

 

Oops... I had forgotten about that...

 

That's the thing about procedural generation. It's all from a base. It's just like Demon said. The names of everything will likely be based around the parts it's made up of. That's just generally how design like this works. Besides, from an aesthetic standpoint, the names will just look better than having the game just throw up a bunch of garbled text. You guys needn't worry so much, besides, in the heat of a battle, you'll just call them enemies, haha. Their names won't matter at all if they're trying to bite your head off.

 

Come to think of it I half-expect them to do something similar to scientific names, it really would work if you just took the body type, the number of limbs, etc etc and generated a name from that data.