The "What's a good name for this?" thread

I'm thinking more like Anadalasia from Enchanted. Does that help?

Seeing as I'm not familiar with either of them, no. Not your fault, though.

I'm currently making a Tower-Defense like strategy game where you can position your units to attack incoming enemies trying to attack your base. Right now I may need names for the enemies, but there is a naming convention.

The enemies are called "R-Series" robots, and the Theme Naming has them end with a "-R" while sounding like a real word pertaining to them.

Currently I have these:

• The Goomba: Lose-R
• Weak gunner unit: Gun-R (Would Shoot-R be better?)
• Commander that buffs units: Command-R
• Melee, attacks troops, ignores base: Slash-R
• Weak air unit: Fly-R
• Weak, ground swarm enemy: Swarm-R
• Mook Medic: Fix-R
• Boss 1: Destroy-R
• Sniper, attacks troops, ignores base: Snipe-R
• Melee, very painful, attacks troops, ignores base: Slaught-R
• Mortar-launching thing: Mort-R
• Flamethrower guy: Burn-R

Hey, thanks for the suggestions!

• Elite Mooks (Elite gunner unit): Win-R
• Heavily Armored Mook: Arm-R
• Something that uses a Macross Missile Massacre: Launch-R
• A guy with a BFS: Chop-R
• A Bike that charges quickly at your base in a kamikaze attempt: Bike-R
• A Tank: Panz-R
• A Truck that spawns gunners: Carry-R
• Shield-Bearing Mook: Defend-R
• Flying Swarm enemy: Buzz-R
• A guy with a regenerating forcefield: Skirmish-R
• Stealthed enemy: Stalk-R
• A flying version of the Stealth enemy: Cloak-R
• A burning guy that averts Convection, Schmonvection: Torch-R
• *New* A suicide bomber unit that explodes when killed: Splode-R

edited 18th Jun '13 2:26:51 PM by ironcommando

A few suggestions:

The burning guy: Hot-R
The tank or the Macross Missile Massacre-user: Blast-R
The bike: Dash-R
The swordsman: Chop-R, Hack-R or Cut-R
The truck that spawns units: Carry-R
The flying swarm unit: Sting-R
The invisible man: Hide-R
The flying invisible man: Cloak-R

edited 16th Jun '13 8:33:50 AM by ArsThaumaturgis

• Elite Mooks - Win-R (to go with Lose-R)
• Heavily Armored Mook - Arm-R, Hard-R?
• Something that uses a Macross Missile Massacre - Rocket-R (assuming the missiles use rocket motors).
• A guy with a BFS (Warri-R sounds meh) - Blast-R
• A Bike that charges quickly at your base in a kamikaze attempt. - Bike-R?
• A Tank - Off Road-R (Tanks are all terrain vehicles), Tread-R
• A Truck that spawns gunners - Carry-R
• Shield Bearing Mook that needs to be attacked from the side or behind. - Riot-R? (as in riot shield),
• Flying Swarm enemy - Buzz-R (to evoke annoying flying insects and "buzzing" an enemy)
• A guy with a regenerating forcefield - Skirmish-R (skirmishers were troops who engaged enemies quickly in advance of the main force, then pulled back to frustrate them).
• Stealthed enemy (requires an anti-stealth device to be equipped on a unit for it to see them) - Sneak-R, Stalk-R?
• A flying version of the Stealth enemy - Recon-R? Harry-R (when it's not used as a name it means to persistently trouble someone, fitting with Stalk-R, plus a Harrier is a type of bird)?
• A burning guy that averts Convection Schmonvection, and deals damage to stuff that get near it. - Torch-R?

edited 16th Jun '13 3:13:44 PM by Bisected8

• Kamikaze bike - Splode-R?

I would make a suggestion, but folks above me have far better ones than me.

What kind of unit does The First Response Company sounds like?

Like a first-line group that is always ready for anything, before the regular things are mobilized.

Hmm...the unit I am thinking is actually more like Navy SEAL Team Six. Not exactly the most appropriate name, I guess.

Then again, military units tend to have rather nonindicative names.

It sounds to me like a section of an army who are kept in reserve so that they can be deployed as a forlorn hope if something develops.

That or a Combat Medic group.

edited 18th Jun '13 4:12:17 PM by Bisected8

Hey...the latter is a pretty good idea.

What's a good name for a race of physics-defieing beings reminiscent of the Angel of Evangelion?

The Transcendents?

edited 18th Jun '13 5:12:38 PM by dRoy

hmmm . . It should sound more like a race name derived from an angel's name.

Thaddeusians?

I wanted to use the name Jerichal, but I'm always up for a second opinion?

Good, better than mine, but not quite impressive enough. I got nothing, though.

How about the Kaburin (derived from Kabbalah)?

Hey, I got an idea. How about Malakpanovians, based on the Angel of the Presence?

Way too long, but nice attempt.

How about Kodeshians? Here some useful wiki pages about Jewish angels.

A few I came up with were the Sephir (from Sephiroth), Mezan (from Messiah or messenger)

The first one would be far too renown because of Sephiroth, but the latter is good.

I chose Sephir because it's the name for the attributes of Kabbalah, not because of Final Fantasy.

I am just saying that Sephiroth will be the first thing most people will think of.

EDIT: Oh wait, just Sephir? That could work.

edited 18th Jun '13 7:28:59 PM by dRoy