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[Fubb]

I, have a dream. A Dream of change



Ok, the big picture in my dream is to make a sort of simple political game, but heres but ONE of the catches included in the game...

a RANDOM NAME GENERATER that randomly generates names pre-scrypted into a given region. E.G Middle East coudl be "region1" Whereas Russia, Ukraine, and eastern Europe could be "Region2". The point is, we can give region 2 100 first names, 100 last names, and have them all Russian like, such as Ivan Kulishnikov and Mikiale Vukov and crap like that, and Region1 wil lhave Arabian names like Punjab Al-Moshe or something.

The reason is, Terrorists have names! Every poilitcal game i've played, its jsut "ZOMG TERRORISTS!" in "STRING%" nonsense.

Well. Lets look at the biggest, most influential terrorist ever. Osoma Bin Laden. Original given wepaons and money form the U.S to fight the Soviets when they invaded Afghanistan, he turned into a nightmare. I want terrorists to have names in this game so you can make your own messes! You may click on a countrys info and see "Oh Punjab Al-Moshe is a strong dissident in this area" or new dissidents can sprout up if a country is losing grip of it's populace and civil poutcry raises and what not...

So what do you think of the small picture so far?

Opinons? Tips? Source codes?

[Panthro]

Are you talking civilization style, or more Caesar II style?

Furthermore, is this to be a diplomacy heavy game? cold-war like?

Also, the middle east is amazingly diverse in naming conventions (I'm sure other regions are) so getting a list of first/last names is a bit tricky.

[Japo]

Lots of games use that mechanism for different things. For example UFO: Enemy Unknown seems to use just that to generate random names, only that it has one single database with international names, but it has different sets for first names and for second names. So yeah go for it.

EDIT: No wait, UFO has different databases for several "cultures", and it's done so that first name and surname are from the same one. It's only that each squaddie can be from any culture randomly, but both his names will match.