noman
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Why is the game called drod(deadly rooms of death)?
Sounds strange?

Is there any reason?

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eytanz
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Because "Relatively Harmless Rooms of Death" doesn't sound as interesting?

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HAHA! I also think that "Deadly Rooms of Daffodils" wouldn't sound too cool...seriously though, I think that repetition attracts the human moreso than other methods of words. Why else would songs have repeated choruses? Why else would Escher be so successful (among certain circles)?

Or, maybe Erik didn't really have a reason.

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Because Tomb Raider was already taken?



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To get to the other side.

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Because the title lends itself better to punctuation than most other titles?

(Deadly Rooms... Of Death!!!!!!!! P.S. This is what my shortcut's called.)

Because it properly reflects Erik's odd sense of humour?

Matt

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My girlfriend would pick on me for playing this game. She would ask, "Are you playing Deadly Rooms of Dieing Death and Destruction and Die, Die, Die, Death Rooms?"

Quath

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noman wrote:
Why is the game called drod(deadly rooms of death)?

I wanted people to understand that 1. rooms were involved, and 2. that they contained death, and finally, 3. that these rooms were indeed deadly. Given these goals, I created a long list of candidate names and carefully reviewed each. Several otherwise-excellent names were eliminated because they did not express the three crucial facts clearly and briefly. Eventually, I narrowed the list down to two: "Deadly Rooms of Death" and "Rooms of Deadly Death". The latter choice is, of course, evocative of bittersweet autumn visits to empty fairgrounds, but I settled on the less-risky "Deadly Rooms of Death". Some would say it reflects an unambitious moral sense. Certainly, we would have an entirely different game if I had used the other name.

-Erik

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Quath wrote:
My girlfriend would pick on me for playing this game. She would ask, "Are you playing Deadly Rooms of Dieing Death and Destruction and Die, Die, Die, Death Rooms?"

Ha! That's funny! At least she puts up with you playing it.

-Erik

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ErikH2000 wrote:
Certainly, we would have an entirely different game if I had used the other name.

Yeah. ...it would have been RODD.

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ErikH2000 wrote:
Given these goals, I created a long list of candidate names and carefully reviewed each. Several otherwise-excellent names were eliminated because they did not express the three crucial facts clearly and briefly. -Erik

How big can a list be of titles containing the words "Deadly", "Death" and "Rooms", or otherwise expressing the sentements that they're rooms of death and quite deadly?

Lesee...

Deadly Rooms of Death
Rooms of Deadly Death
Deadly Death Rooms
Rooms of Death (They're also very deadly)
Death Rooms: The Especially Deadly Ones
Death's Deadly Rooms
Danger: These Rooms Are Harmful to Children, And Pretty Much Everyone Else
Deceptively Deadly Rooms
Rooms of Surprising Death

Matt

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Mattcrampy wrote:
Danger: These Rooms Are Harmful to Children, And Pretty Much Everyone Else

D:TRAHTCAPMEE?



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Like we see at the hardware store all the time:
Danger Children May Fall Into These Rooms and Drown.

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Mattcrampy wrote:

Deadly Death Rooms...

Death's Deadly Rooms

DDR...Dance Dance Revolution=DROD? No, we had to have an original acronym.

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What about synonyms and such ?

"Lethal Chambers Of Mortality"
"Extreme Rooms Involving Killings"

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trick wrote:
"Extreme Rooms Involving Killings"

Hehe... nice one


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Or how about...

Some Cockroach's Head Is Killed.

Maybe Another Level's Arbitrary Rooms Are More Exciting

Cool! Large And Yay-making Tomes Of Necrocreation

Make Roaches In Many Extra Rooms (AE special)

That...was silly.

[Edited by zex20913 on 07-24-2003 at 05:37 PM GMT: *shock* forgot about Mike!]

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agaricus5 wrote:

Mattcrampy wrote:
Danger: These Rooms Are Harmful to Children, And Pretty Much Everyone Else

D:TRAHTCAPMEE?

D:TRAHTCAPMEE ounds-say etty-pray illy-say, Wesley and Matt (just like me ).

-Noah

[Edited by NoahT on 08-11-2003 at 02:13 AM GMT: Pig latin (for the fun of it)]

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zex20913 wrote:

Cool! Large And Yay-making Tomes Of Necrocreation

Hmm... There's something peculiar about that...

I prefer this:
Crazy Labyrinths And Yonder Treacherous Obscene 'Neathlings!

or how about:

Zaniness in the Era: X-20913

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Some Areas Filled with Evil ?

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MISTErious Rooms

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Hey, I can sum up the story of DROD...

King Realizes A Master Monster Exterminator Required.

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Are you ready?


Onerous Never-Ending Insidious Rooms Of Multiple And Nasty Certain Eternal Rests.


Who da man? :

Game on,

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Oh okay, you da man.

Although I don't think Mysterious And Tragically Terminating Corridors, Rooms And Monsterous, Pitiless Yahoos reflects the subtleties of the game.

Plus, it means I don't get to use 'yataghan'.

Matt

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I'm not sure how good this one is, but then, it fits my screen name:

Notorious Odd Areas: Homicide Tunnels

-Noah

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Not entirely perfect, but the longest yet - i challenge thee

Exciting, Yawn-Eliminating Brain Amusement in Long Labyrinth Passages Underground in Deadly Dungeons, Involving Noxious Goblins, Serpents, Mothers, Eyes and Lesser Leeches and Such.

That's "EYEBALL PUDDING SMELLS"

- Gerry

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Terribly Sadistic Corridors Of Total Terror

Hmmm, not half bad...

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Terribly Hostile Environments Lacking Undo Centera: (Koon, You’d Marked Uni Time)

Haha, a double acronym... Seemingly makes no sence, but it has a two acronyms in there, which makes it better than all of yours, haha! And it only doesn't make sence because you vocabulary and imagination is so small, so let me explain. Terribly Hostile Environments should be obvious, Lacking Undo Centera demonstrates how the game is all extreams, because centera is the lack of exteams, yes yes. Now the alternate title in parenthesis is the image the game always gives me when I'm playing. That image happens to be of a racoon with a metronome and a conductors stick waving his hand up and down in front of a symphony marking what could only be called uni time because he shows only one beat. This image is always in my head as I play DROD, thus the alternate name.

TLM

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I have a similar one to my first:

Notorious Odd Areas of Homicidal Torments

-Noah

[Edited by NoahT on 09-12-2004 at 06:25 AM GMT: Word Change]

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Many Assorted Lairs And Rooms And Monsters Everywhere

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