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What's your favorite name here?  Feel free to comment with other names, or change your vote later.

This World Is Mine
3 (15.8%)
From a Dying Sun
6 (31.6%)
Stars Beyond Reach
7 (36.8%)
Stars Beyond Reach: This World Is Mine
3 (15.8%)

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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - Orbital Contact) (POLL 9/17)
« Reply #225 on: September 18, 2014, 12:01:02 am »
Singular Occurrence
Singularity Zero One (singularity01 is an old username of mine)
Lonely Among Us (Star Trek TNG episode name)
Unlost
Stationary Orbit
Last Plantation

One of the most famous video games of all time is "Final Fantasy," a title that makes no sense, has no apparent bearing on the game (which one will be the final frickin' one?), but sounds good. I encourage you to do the same. Just pick any two good-sounding words that won't get you lost in a search engine, and run with it.


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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - Orbital Contact) (POLL 9/17)
« Reply #226 on: September 18, 2014, 12:23:54 am »
Combining doctorfrog and wwwhhattt:
Last Contact

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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - Orbital Contact) (POLL 9/17)
« Reply #227 on: September 18, 2014, 12:52:03 am »
If they're fleeing to start their own settlement among other races, how about something involving Plymouth?

Plymouth Star, or something maybe.

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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - Planetary Legacy) (POLL 9/17)
« Reply #228 on: September 18, 2014, 03:13:25 am »
Alien in a Strange Land  (To revisit Heinlein's Stranger in Strange Land)
I like this one a lot!
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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - Planetary Legacy) (POLL 9/17)
« Reply #229 on: September 18, 2014, 08:31:41 am »
Lone is pretty cool, and Lone Colony doesn't have any real results.  But that does seem to imply there isn't anyone else there -- when in fact the planet is brimming with other races, AND you might have co-op allies, AND the planet itself is harassing you verbally.
Our Planet Is Annoying?

Hahaha. :D

One of the most famous video games of all time is "Final Fantasy," a title that makes no sense, has no apparent bearing on the game (which one will be the final frickin' one?), but sounds good. I encourage you to do the same. Just pick any two good-sounding words that won't get you lost in a search engine, and run with it.

That... is a really good point, actually!  Though there was logic behind the name Final Fantasy, it just had to do with the studio rather than the game.

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Last Contact

I'm a bit wary of using Last again.  But how about... Final Contact.  It is the name of a book, though, unfortunately.

Earlier today I had been thinking about how there are things that reference First Contact with alien species, but nobody ever really talks about Second Contact or whatever.  I was thinking something like 15th Contact.  The number would have to be at least 15, and not more than 20-something, to make sense in the story.

If they're fleeing to start their own settlement among other races, how about something involving Plymouth?

Plymouth Star, or something maybe.

I've always found that word awkward to say, for whatever reason.  I like your reasoning, and something with those connotations could be really cool, I just don't like that specific word.

Alien in a Strange Land  (To revisit Heinlein's Stranger in Strange Land)
I like this one a lot!

It's very long, though.  And it misses the alliteration of the original.  Alien in Alien Land would be cool, except Alien Land sounds like a theme park.  And it's nice how there is Stranger vs Strange, instead of them being the same letters for two different forms (Alien vs Alien).

I think doctorfrog is really onto something so far in terms of a renewed approach...
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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - Planetary Legacy) (POLL 9/17)
« Reply #230 on: September 18, 2014, 09:21:35 am »
Alien in a Strange Land  (To revisit Heinlein's Stranger in Strange Land)
I like this one a lot!

It's very long, though.  And it misses the alliteration of the original.  Alien in Alien Land would be cool, except Alien Land sounds like a theme park.  And it's nice how there is Stranger vs Strange, instead of them being the same letters for two different forms (Alien vs Alien).
I guess you are right. This one really has the risk of going the Valley way in terms of names perceived as obscure...
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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - Planetary Legacy) (POLL 9/17)
« Reply #231 on: September 18, 2014, 10:14:03 am »
Combining doctorfrog and wwwhhattt:
Last Contact

I'm a bit wary of using Last again.  But how about... Final Contact.  It is the name of a book, though, unfortunately.

Earlier today I had been thinking about how there are things that reference First Contact with alien species, but nobody ever really talks about Second Contact or whatever.  I was thinking something like 15th Contact.  The number would have to be at least 15, and not more than 20-something, to make sense in the story.

Contact 17

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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - Orbital Contact) (POLL 9/17)
« Reply #232 on: September 18, 2014, 10:26:23 am »
Echo Proto
Fallen Contact
Starlight Fall
Seeds Fallen
Frontier Sector
Ashen Cities
Cities of Ash
City Shadow
Age Imperial
City Age (taken)
Digital Legend
First Stars
Planet Loyalty
Proto Era
Galactica Centauri
Dawn of Science
Shadow Station
Total Lord
First Fallen
Galactic Arrival
Exiled Emperor
Proto Cities
Settler Empire
City Command
Frontier Cities
City Legend
City Prime
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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - Orbital Contact) (POLL 9/17)
« Reply #233 on: September 18, 2014, 10:30:02 am »
Seventh Exile (anything ending in "-teenth" didn't roll off the tongue as well)
The Final Dying Sun
Planetary Prison

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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - Orbital Contact) (POLL 9/17)
« Reply #234 on: September 18, 2014, 11:22:40 am »
Our of frustration with this process, and an attempt to try to come up with a better name for the game based on the concept of "two words put together" as doctorfrog suggested, I created this this morning:

Free tool for game developers: Random Game Title Generator (with source code)

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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - Orbital Contact) (POLL 9/17)
« Reply #235 on: September 18, 2014, 12:08:53 pm »
Nice!

That is kind of fun. I could get into the code myself, but it might be better add a settings menu or parameter.txt option where all of the settable parameters can be changed?

The most obvious is setting how many titles are generated from the list into the center column. A second would be whether or not you want the center list to be cleared when you press the button for new titles. I'm sure there are others that could make the functionality even better.

But the idea is great, and a lot more efficient than trying to keep track of it manually!

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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - Orbital Contact) (POLL 9/17)
« Reply #236 on: September 18, 2014, 12:10:27 pm »
Thanks!  In terms of the number generated, you can just keep generating more, so I don't see a real reason to make it have a ton.  And just adding to the list endlessly doesn't seem that useful to me in the main, so I just coded it this way.  This was just a really quick job for me to get something I'd need to use, and then I thought others might also find it useful.  So I'm pretty much done with it unless I find I need something else with it!
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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - Orbital Contact) (POLL 9/17)
« Reply #237 on: September 18, 2014, 12:29:12 pm »
Interesting names (not all for this game) from the attached dictionary list:

Fallen Cities
Dawn Contact
Distant Settlers
Battle Cities (hah)
Eminent Empire
Alpha Nano
Cities Lost
Space Epitaph
Fragile Loyalty
Solar Revolution
Peak Galactic
Aero Fusion
Vision Command
Landing Centauri
Master Imperium
Energy Dawn
Intergalactic Arrival
Total Starlight
Planetary Alpha
Awe Lords
Planetary Awe
Dream Ash
Dawn Cities
Centauri Revolution
Arrival Leader
Colonizing Centauri
Planetary Wrath
Alien Alone
Alien Prime
Total Imperialism
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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - Orbital Contact) (POLL 9/17)
« Reply #238 on: September 18, 2014, 12:41:40 pm »
Civilizations High
Battle Ash
Lord of Centauri
Cities Distant
City Worlds
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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - Orbital Contact) (POLL 9/17)
« Reply #239 on: September 18, 2014, 01:16:14 pm »
Shadow Cities
Science Lord
Sentient Fallen
Strategic Orbit
Legend Imminent
City Sector
Alpha Proto
Alien Imperialism
Corrupted Future
Sentient Ultra
Prime Colony
Arrival Eve
Seventh Science
Legend Worlds
Endless Starlight
Prime Exiled
Galactic Lord
High Colonizing
Stars Civilization
Starlight Cities
Strange Space
Centauri First
Endless City
Solar Void
Proto Rebellion
Ashen Domain
Corrupted Starlight
Starlight Landing
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