[2024] I am deeply envious of Ludeon Studios's ability to name things

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I have an interest in worldbuilding and similar things and...

man, Rimworld just nails it every single time. I'm trying to think of what terms to use for X or Y that would be reasonable in a "sci-fi" context, meanwhile this funny warcrime game casually spits out beautifully sounding and perfectly thematic BANGERS of terms like "hemogen", "baseliner" and "psycast". How do they do it?!

(Not to mention Oskar (praise be upon him) replicating the naming style basically 1:1 a lot of the times but never copying it directly. I'm trying to worldbuild some weird quasi-magic sh*t for a pre-existing scifi universe for fanfic reasons and I aspire to his sheer skill at imitating the source material, as it were...)

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4 months ago - /u/TynanSylvester - Direct link

Originally posted by sk4p3gO4t

Archotech being a portmanteau of arcane and technology for tech so advanced it's basically magic is such a banger

It's actually from the root "archo" for ruler. As in archon.

Though there are multiple near-matches like this which also work well which is part of why I chose it.

4 months ago - /u/TynanSylvester - Direct link

Thank you! I spend a good amount of time thinking about a researching names for new things in the game. Lots of looking over lists of Latin/Greek roots, making candidate lists or pools of associated words, etc. Good to hear you like the results!

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