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ok, we really need a name for the official game. A code name would more than suffice.

i agree. we can't write decent texts if we're going to have to call it "the official game made to demonstrate the OpenWar engine" every time 

Preferably this code name wouldn't have much to do with the theme of the game, unless someone has a good final name already.

Solinx

"Age of Darkness" (because it's obiously a dark age)

or

"Thabacaniva" (tharwain, balkurn, caeluin, nisyria, varnost )

i also had

"Forgotten World" (the idea that, if there was some kind of god in that world, he had forsaken it - the name was already taken)

All too cliche; we need a title with underused words that stands out.  As it is, titles rarely stick out.  Although strictly speaking we're not going on any shelves, we want a name that would grab attention and make people pull the box out to see what's written on the back.

As far as gods go, the only explicit "gods" I've worked into the story so far are called the Elder Gods.  They were supposedly wiped out before the rise of Tharwain, more than two thousand years before our story-line takes place.  I'll add something about that to the storyline thread sooner or later.  At this point, I'm leaning against one of these entities existing in the story, but the threat of their existance is more than enough to drive several plot lines.

All too cliche; we need a title with underused words that stands out.  As it is, titles rarely stick out.  Although strictly speaking we're not going on any shelves, we want a name that would grab attention and make people pull the box out to see what's written on the back.

i was just suggesting some code names

Thabacaniva sounds like a nice project name. For some reason, even I can remember it long enough to write it down here, and that is quite something I wager it will soon be called Thaba, or Caniva for quick use though.

The downside is that the first acronym that came to my mind was TBC, which will also be used for WoW, The Burning Crusade. But you can't have everything, right?

Solinx

Why not The Uber Pwage Project? TUPP for short.

or just : The Project as a workign title since you could come up with a name later:P? i recommand using a easy to remember name for an workign title and later on makeing an official 100% keeping name:P

yes but "The Project" isn't exactly going to attract a lot of members/players

it's been some time, maybe Darvin has come up with a name for his world now? 

Well, you are right about that though. but i geus if you make some intresting banner with project X on it might atract alot of people? or if you really want an good name:

Hernamo (sounds hentai ish )
The Volunteer (i geuss misspeled. and sounds like a shooter)
The Lands of Death
The game with no name (came random )
The War With Open Field (open war..)
The Open Field (openwar...)
Nations at war
The land Of Arankth (hmmm)
Vormandil (sounds intresting?)
Oryan (speak as : oryjen or such)
Morandir (dont know how i came with this..)
Majestic ( i thought it was an old game but iam not 100% sure someone should check it )
Orandir
The Age Of Revenge
The War Of The Old
The Fire Bomb
The Renewed World (sounds as an project for a game wich goes alout with an engine)
Renewed War's
Fight For Your Land
Conquer The World
Holandeer (yes iam dutch ......)
Renikth
Alsjenth (sounds magic )
Orijinal (orginal but then with Jjj's )
Vrombadeer (bombadeer )


well those were some names i came up with the last ten minutes:P. i hope you might have something on them .. you can use them if you want..... i don't care ...

well i wish you people good luck and such ETC ~ Bruce "GodSun333" Van Duyn

The name of the subcontinent on which the story takes place is Maridacan.  Tharwain is situated roughly in the middle of Maridacan.

hmm, no offence, your story is great, but I don't really like that name. I don't know how to describe it, but it "doesn't ring" or something

I wasn't exactly all thumbs up when I put it on paper, either, but I needed to declare something arbitrary and get on with it.  I played around with the word Dacadrin.  I dropped the last syllable (leaving daca), added an 'N' to the end since I didn't want it to sound Spanish or Italian, and then added a prefix.  After playing around with some words, I chose Mari as my prefix to make the whole word 'Maridacan', which sounds somewhat like meridian, which is an interesting word that just rolls off the tongue.  After thinking on it for a while, I decided it would mean "Northern Dacan", or the Northern Dacadrin Empire.

Ok, maridacan seems like a fine name for the world. however, i think we do need another name for the game itself then

guess we'll just wait to see what kind of story darvin comes up with for the time in which the game takes place

Please note the distinction, Maridacan is the name of the land mass which is shown in my map.  It is a sub-continent, a part of a much larger world.  The world itself has no name (in fact, the concept of a 'world' and a 'universe' for people in such a setting as this would not have the same type of distinction we have between the two).   We may well end up calling it "Earth", just so the phrase "what on Earth!?" can be used.

As for the game's name, I'm still out on that one.

Please note the distinction, Maridacan is the name of the land mass which is shown in my map.  It is a sub-continent, a part of a much larger world.

It depens on the definition of "world". In my case I meant the place where the story takes place

so, a few weeks later, any more ideas on this?
once we have a name we can start creating a logo, a beginning of a website, and some advertising...so it's kind of important

Just use something which already exists, such as some kind of exotic plant or animal, or get a couple of words and put them together.
A codename doesn't have to mean anything, it just needs to be something to reference to. So it could be "Egg and Chips" and it wouldn't matter, but it should be a bit more original.

For example

Firefish.
CeramicBlade
CamelMover

Yes, I know they all suck etc. but it is something

but now that we know what it's all going to be about, i'd rather just come up with the final name
Darvin, what will be the main event in the storyline, if you know that already?

Just so you guys know, I'm only checking in once per day over the next week.  Nothing personal, just that's how much access to the internet I actually have right now.

Anyways, I can't say if there's going to be any one major event in the story.  Speaking of which, maybe I'll continue to elaborate on the story progression next week.

Unknown world
The Five Towers
The Five Realms
The Forgotten Realms
The Forgotten World <- Given by 2playgames

Forgotten Realms is already taken.  That's the name of the universe in the Dungeons and Dragons mythology.

and like you said earlier, it's a bit too generic