What is in a Name?
Jamee Wang
one 'craft' a better name for a location?
For example, naming an armor shop:
A Village In Armour Shop ; Colossal Cave style ?
An Armour Shop
An Armoury Shop in Village
The Armoury etc..
or indirectly:
The BloodyAxe Shop
Jessy's Hammerhead
The BlackForge of Village
The One-And-Only-Armor etc..
Wildman, the Cuberstalker
>Is there an ettiquette for naming a Room/Place/Location? How does
>one 'craft' a better name for a location?
The only "right" way to choose a name (for anything) is the way that feels
right _to you_. It is, after all, your game.
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Schep
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> Is there an ettiquette for naming a Room/Place/Location? How does
> one 'craft' a better name for a location?
>
This is entirely a matter of style. Whatever name fits your type of game
is the one you should use. It would be nice to the player to make the
place easy to remember (using name and description together), but if you
would rather confuse the player, that's the author's right.
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In article <slrn74elp8....@foobar.net>, wil...@microserve.net
(Wildman, the Cuberstalker) writes:
>The only "right" way to choose a name (for anything) is the way that feels
>right _to you_. It is, after all, your game.
As long as it's spelled right.
Doe :-)
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TenthStone
collective minds on 9 Nov 1998 17:33:39 GMT:
>Is there an ettiquette for naming a Room/Place/Location? How does
>one 'craft' a better name for a location?
>
>For example, naming an armor shop:
Sliversimth.
Three words: Concision, Allusion, Distinction.
Seriously.
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T Raymond
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> In article <slrn74elp8....@foobar.net>, wil...@microserve.net
> (Wildman, the Cuberstalker) writes:
>
> >The only "right" way to choose a name (for anything) is the way that feels
> >right _to you_. It is, after all, your game.
>
> As long as it's spelled right.
>
> Doe :-)
Even that might all depend on the aim of the name errr game
as it were? *L* Say, using phonetic spelling for some things
as a simple code, or alternate spelling just to be different.
HAving already confessed to being a habitual typo person,
perhaps I am just hunting for some solid and reasonable
explanations I can use if I get caught up in one. *LOL*
Tom
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