I got sick of carrying Civilian #14 to Station #147 (run by Civilian #2), so I decided to start naming things. I had hoped to generate names algorithmically, but after a couple of hours I realized I didnt want to populate the world with people named Tiniett, Ter, and Evirlis. Instead I figured I’d just build combinations of common first and last names, with name and distribution data drawn from the US census. I used 1960s baby names since these people would be in their 20s-30s at the time of the game’s setting (currently 1990). I plonked the name recombinator into a test harness and churned out a hundred results, among which I found the names of a brilliant science fiction author and a recently deceased popstar. Whoops.
<3 Farbs
Now for the decision: the random face-generator of Elite II: Frontier, or the low-grade “com-videos” of Frontier: First Encounters…?
When can we expect to start working as space cabbies?
Luckily the passenger reflection is so damned blurry I can probably do a cheap face gen from photographs.
Current ETA is December – I have a lot more I want to do with this.
Ooh, we get to see our passengers?
Tell me, do we get more than one at a time and to they pay?
*Loves Douglas Adams*
For all I care you can also bring along the name of the Paranoid Android; Marvin! *Favourite*
“Whoops”?
I would more readily say “Woot”
At any rate it shows it’s generating realistic names.
Cool, how are you going to name the stations though?
wait, wait, wait. This game is set in the 90’s?