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      CommentAuthorNathan P.
    • CommentTimeOct 11th 2009
     # 1
    Thanks for all the name submissions, folks!

    If you want to participate in the contest, here's how you tap in. E-mail me your top 5 (or less, if you're interested in less, but MAXIMUM 5) game titles from the list below. Please send this email to: twogamesonename-at-gmail.com.

    I will accept emails from now until Wednesday night, (10/14). If it's it not in my inbox by the time I wake up on Thursday, it's no good.

    Once I know how many people are participating and I have the shortlists, I will use a popularity contest metric to create a list of game titles that is equal to the number of participants, and then everyone who's in will rank that list, and then I'll match you, and then you'll write some games.

    If the math is working out wierd due to the proportion of entrants to the spread of names, I'll announce any changes as soon as it makes sense to do so. But I think this will work.

    Feel free to kibbitz in this thread, but it's only official if it's in my email!

    The Names:

    8 Dragon heads in a Sack
    837 Incursion

    A Bucket of Blood in My Foyer
    A Hatful of Rabbits
    A History of Giants
    And My Axe
    Arbiters of Zodiac
    Atlantis 2037

    Bad Asses and Thieves
    Balthazar Mercury in: Voyage to the Great Red Spot

    Captain Supermarket.
    Catwalk.
    Celestiana
    Cellophane Smackdown
    Chained Souls
    City of Refuge
    Curare.

    Distant Relatives
    DNA: Alteration

    Eyes in the Night

    Fortune's Child
    Franchise: Samurai
    Fuck you, Sorensen

    Gear-Crazy: Giant Steam-Bots and the People who Love Them
    Goblin Lovers.
    Grandpa's War

    Hammer of the Overlord
    Hell for Leather

    I Love The Dead
    Imperialist Bastards
    In Repose.
    Iron Soldiers: Maim frame

    Love in Winter

    Masks & Revolutions
    Midnight Division
    Mona Bushpig

    Naked Trade
    Never Fall Down
    Never Forget
    Nightwings
    Northern Lights and Broken Hearts: Sordid Tales of Icy Passion

    Oh Pure and Ageless Song

    Penance
    Piper at the Gates of Dawn

    S.O.N.N.E.T.
    Season of the Witch.
    Sing, O goddess
    Stutter Step
    Sublime
    Sunday's Best
    Swords!

    The Fall Of The United States
    The Hunter S Thompson Role Playing Game
    The Mars Folly
    The Martyr's Brigade
    The Plant
    The Whore Of Babylon.
    Third Dawn
    This Little Piggy
    Tripod
    Twilight's Last Gleaming
    Two Games One Name.

    What Is A Heart But A Sweet Bit of Offal For My Dark Master?
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    Hey Nathan,

    I don't see it spelled out one way or the other in your instructions, so I'll ask. Do you want our top five ranked now? Or do we only rank once you make your shortlist?

    Thanks, D

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      CommentAuthorNathan P.
    • CommentTimeOct 11th 2009
     # 3
    Top 5 do not need to be ranked, you're basically submitting your votes for the shortlist. You will be ranking the shortlist instead
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      CommentAuthorNathan P.
    • CommentTimeOct 11th 2009
     # 4
    Oh, also, you can list your own entries if you really want. Doesn't matter to me.
    • CommentAuthorjoepub
    • CommentTimeOct 11th 2009
     # 5
    Nathan,

    I thought that the idea was to have two people writing each title. Ie, for each name there are two authors.

    If you shortlist n titles, where n is the number of participants... doesn't that mean each person will have their own title?

    In other words, shouldn't you shortlist n, where n is half the number of participants?
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      CommentAuthorRemi
    • CommentTimeOct 11th 2009
     # 6
    I have sent in my list and I'm excited about designing the heck out of any of those titles!
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      CommentAuthorNathan P.
    • CommentTimeOct 12th 2009
     # 7
    Hey Joe - the shortlist is get a list of "most popular" titles among the people actually participating, and then when they rank that list I will pair them up. So if 10 people end up participating, I'll have a list of 10 titles, only 5 of which will be used, but the 10 should give enough flexibility that people will end up with something that they like, even if it's not their first choice.
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      CommentAuthorNathan P.
    • CommentTimeOct 14th 2009
     # 8
    It's shaping up the be quite a collection of folks! Reminder that the deadline for tapping in is tonite. If it's not in my email by when I wake up tomorrow morning (app. 20 hours from now, for quick ref), it's no good.
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      CommentAuthorNathan P.
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009
     # 9
    The shortlist:

    A Hatful of Rabbits
    A History of Giants
    Atlantis 2037
    Catwalk.
    Celestiana
    Chained Souls
    City of Refuge
    Distant Relatives
    Gear-Crazy: Giant Steam-Bots and the People who Love Them
    Goblin Lovers.
    Grandpa's War
    Hell for Leather
    I Love The Dead
    In Repose.
    Love in Winter
    Masks & Revolutions
    Piper at the Gates of Dawn
    Sing, O goddess
    Sunday's Best
    The Fall Of The United States
    The Martyr's Brigade
    The Plant
    Twilight's Last Gleaming

    I just sent an email to everyone who's tapped in with more details - if you don't get it, please email me or whisper or something.

    We have 22 contestants! That's so cool! So 11 of these names will be used.
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    22, that's lucky. It would have been a little awkward if it'd turned up odd.

    Good luck in getting your choices guys.
    • CommentAuthorDestriarch
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009
     # 11
    Looking forward to this one. It's only a shame that I will only be able to use one of these titles 'cause there are several there that I love.

    -Ash
    • CommentAuthorjoepub
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009
     # 12
    Two of mine made the short list! (Goblin Lovers and In Repose)

    I want someone to do this: "Gear-Crazy: Giant Steam-Bots and the People who Love Them"
    Well... I guess that means I want two people to do it.
    The only problem is... I don't think I want to be the one doing it.
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      CommentAuthorartexercise
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009 edited
     # 13
    None of mine made the list, bur Gear Crazy is one of my picks. Why not keep a list of the titles you want to explore and work on them at a later time. I was under the impression that the names were given freely. At least mine were. While listening to a couple of Bare Naked Ladies CDs several of the lines in various songs stood out as great seeds for game titles you could build upon. I was thinking about making my own list to brainstorm about. Might not have even occurred to me otherwise if not for this two game one name project.
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      CommentAuthorGraham
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009
     # 14
    I'm really excited about this. The titles are excellent.

    Quick point of clarification.

    I was under the impression that the names were given freely.


    My names were not given freely. By using any name I suggested, you enter into a contract to give me half your total earnings*.

    Graham

    * Not just your earnings from the game. Half your total earnings for anything. It's retroactive.
    • CommentAuthortimonkey
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009 edited
     # 15
    I want someone to make Masks & Revolutions about super-'villains' and how they have kind of good goals - restructuring the world order - but are constantly pestered by super-'heroes'. See Darth Vader, Dr. Horrible, Cobra Commander:

    "I'm not going to be ground under the wheels of big government!... I'm going to create an underground organization that will bypass government restrictions, and garner power through terrorism and extortion!... I won't stop until my organization coils around the whole world like a giant cobra!" -- Cobra Commander, circa. 1978

    Also: Chained Souls made it through so far and looks tasty.
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    I was under the impression that the names were given freely.


    My names are given freely, with one caveat: Middle name. First child.
    • CommentAuthorHiQKid
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009
     # 17
    All mine are free to use, though it'd be appreciated if you gave attribution for the title.
    • CommentAuthorDestriarch
    • CommentTimeOct 16th 2009
     # 18
    The only caveat for the titles I've offered is that I'd very much like to see what you do with them, at least the competition entry version but not necessarily the commercial release if there is one. My titles were 'A Hat Full of Rabbits' and 'Hell for Leather', and I've deliberately put them at the very end of my list 'cause I want to see what other people come up with. That's assuming they are used at all of course, there are some great titles in that list and I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't. If they don't get used I may well make a mini-game out of one or the other of them myself once the contest is over. Also, if either of my favourite two titles don't make it into the contest, I'll probably do something with those.

    Attribution... not a bad idea, something I'll be happy to do in my entries, but not something I'd insist on for other people using my title.

    -Ash
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      CommentAuthorNathan P.
    • CommentTimeOct 16th 2009
     # 19
    I'm totally pro folks being inspired by the names outside of the contest! I myself have some favorites. Attribution and letting the names author know about it seems only fair, to me. Um, I guess as an officially thing, each person who submitted a name has actual IP authority over it, with the specific exception that they're allowing me to use it to run and promote the contest.
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      CommentAuthor14thWarrior
    • CommentTimeOct 16th 2009 edited
     # 20
    Well, I'm bummed! I totally missed this thread, and thereby missed the deadline for tapping in. I had the previous thread for this little contest bookmarked, and was following it; perhaps next time posting a notice and a link to the new thread in the original thread would be a good idea. Oh, well, I guess I'll just have to sit this one out; there's only one title on the short list that was inspiring me anyway.

    Just as an FYI, names and titles are not protected by copyright (U.S. Copyright Office FAQ); so what anyone decides to do with any of the names/titles submitted as part of this competition is out of anyone's hands. However, giving attribution to the title's author is certainly the decent and courteous thing to do.

    I gotta say that finding "How do I protect my sighting of Elvis?" as a question in the FAQ made me do a major WTF?! :D
  21.  # 21
    Posted By: 14thWarriorI gotta say that finding "How do I protect my sighting of Elvis?" as a question in the FAQ made me do a major WTF?! :D


    It's all part of Elvis' one-man war against copyright.
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      CommentAuthorNathan P.
    • CommentTimeOct 16th 2009
     # 22
    Yeh, shoulda linked. My apologies!
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      CommentAuthorGraham
    • CommentTimeOct 16th 2009
     # 23
    I'm imagining that people will drop out, right? How about we have a reserve list and, when someone drops out, someone else can take their assigned title and thing?

    Graham
    • CommentAuthorHiQKid
    • CommentTimeOct 16th 2009
     # 24
    1 - City of Refuge
    2 - Grandpa's War
    3 - Chained Souls
    4 - A Hatful of Rabbits
    5 - Masks & Revolutions
    6 - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
    7 - The Martyr's Brigade
    8 - Celestiana
    9 - The Plant
    10 - Sing, O goddess
    11 - I Love The Dead
    12 - Gear-Crazy: Giant Steam-Bots and the People who Love Them
    13 - Goblin Lovers.
    14 - A History of Giants
    15 - In Repose.
    16 - Twilight's Last Gleaming
    17 - Sunday's Best
    18 - Hell for Leather
    19 - Atlantis 2037
    20 - Distant Relatives
    21 - Catwalk.
    22 - Love in Winter
    23 - The Fall Of The United States
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      CommentAuthormjbauer
    • CommentTimeOct 17th 2009
     # 25
    Tapped in, excited to see what title I get.
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      CommentAuthorNathan P.
    • CommentTimeOct 17th 2009
     # 26
    Graham, thats a good idea.
    • CommentAuthorDestriarch
    • CommentTimeOct 19th 2009
     # 27
    Really looking forward to this one now :D Hope we can get underway soon.

    -Ash

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