   Names of Characters;places and skills in Adventure/RPG games!!!
  Hey! As everyone of us have seen by now, in those Adventure games like Final Fantasy and Quake III : Arena.......there''s lottsa cool names for the characters, places and their skills, like Torah or Isama. Where the heck do they get all these names? Do they think up of such names themselves? Isn''t that kinda hard? Or is there a general technique? Thanks!!!!! :-D    Since it''''s cool to have our own signatures in every posts in GameDev.net, allow me to join in the fun. More is merrier, right? Now let''''s see....what shall my signature be? Ah-ha! Got it!!!!!"Now pal...I wouldn''''t do dat'''' if I were you, or this young lady might get hurt!"Heh-heh-heh! Cool eh? Now, dat''''s Cowboy''''s speech! Hee-haw!!!!! :-D   
  This really belongs in the Game Design or Writing forums, you  know..Anyways, you could write a name-generator that makes up names after certain parameters, there''s a tutorial over at flipcode.Good luck.    ------------------It''s me again!  ;  Yeah I agree you will get a far better response in the game design forum so I''m moving it there.  ;Thanks Bully! But u''re a good bully, right? :-D Or maybe a good bully is one that bullies the bad bullies? Ah-ha! Great idea for a game : The Bully Game! :-DGood luck! :-D    Since it''''s cool to have our own signatures in every posts in GameDev.net, allow me to join in the fun. More is merrier, right? Now let''''s see....what shall my signature be? Ah-ha! Got it!!!!!"Now pal...I wouldn''''t do dat'''' if I were you, or this young lady might get hurt!"Heh-heh-heh! Cool eh? Now, dat''''s Cowboy''''s speech! Hee-haw!!!!! :-D   ;Thanks Bully! But u''re a good bully, right? :-D Or maybe a good bully is one that bullies the bad bullies? Ah-ha! Great idea for a game : The Bully Game! :-DGood luck! :-D    Since it''''s cool to have our own signatures in every posts in GameDev.net, allow me to join in the fun. More is merrier, right? Now let''''s see....what shall my signature be? Ah-ha! Got it!!!!!"Now pal...I wouldn''''t do dat'''' if I were you, or this young lady might get hurt!"Heh-heh-heh! Cool eh? Now, dat''''s Cowboy''''s speech! Hee-haw!!!!! :-D   ;  Someone''s been smoking something..  ;  Most people just invent the names themselves - it isnt difficult, you just take a few random letters and arrange them in some way that is more (or less in the case of some RPG''s) pronouncable.Other methods are random name generators - Elite Frontier used this method to produce names for every single star system in the galaxy. (apart from a few with preset names like alpha centauri, betelgeuse and rigel, etc.)  ;  Names also usually mean something in another language.  Pick up an English to Whatever dictionary and randomly pick words out of that.  Even if you pick something like "Toaster" that doesn''t at first seem very cool, it tends to grow on you.  A favorite one of mine is "Strom" which is a German word for "current".  ;  Yeah, some game developers based in non-english speaking countries just use words from their mother tounge, Massive Entertainment, who made Ground Control, used quite a lot of swedish words and names. The planet Krig 7B and the starship Astrid among those ( ''krig'' = war, Astrid = first name of swedish children''s book writer, Astrid Lindgren ).You can go here if you want a english->swedish dictionary, it would be fun to see what you came up with if you used it =)    ------------------It''s me again!  ;quote:Original post by Sandman  Most people just invent the names themselves - it isnt difficult, you just take a few random letters and arrange them in some way that is more (or less in the case of some RPG''s) pronouncable.  Yeah, I used the random letter system...I actually wrote a program in QBasic that could be configured to make names of x length and send it to a text file, then wasted hours going through lists of litterally tens or hundreds of thousands of possible combinations.  Anything that you can see a possible pronunciation of...add a few vowels if it needs it and go.  Or sometimes a few letters in the pattern will jump out and make you think of something else.--    WNDCLASSEX Reality;......Reality.lpfnWndProc=ComputerGames;......RegisterClassEx(&Reality);Unable to register Reality...what''s wrong?---------Dan UptonLead DesignerWolfHeart Software