Christer
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Coach roante recently posted about a name generator extension he had put together, which to me was pretty cool and got me thinking. I approached him about it and after a quick chat he was happy for me to integrate the name generator natively to the site.
Now, I didn't want to implement it directly as-is since I wanted to allow support for different gender players (which is a feature that has been available on the site for quite a while), so I took roante's work and did an adaptation for it.
Now, for various reasons, I have chosen to not take *all* of the generators he had in his project and I also chose to implement it server-side rather than in a client-side javascript.
So how does this work? Well, it's pretty simple. When you open up the dialog to buy a player, the player name will have a "placeholder" name already in place. Not typing anything in this box will use the placeholder name instead. You choose the position, gender and number and buy the player. The process should be pretty obvious.
Now, for the more technically minded, I added the name generator as a public API endpoint:
https://fumbbl.com/api/name/generate
This will generate a random name, using the "default" generator. As you may imagine, there are other non-default generators as well, for example:
https://fumbbl.com/api/name/generate/orc
In addition to this, you can specify a gender, which some generators take into account (Valid genders are "male", "female" and "neutral"):
https://fumbbl.com/api/name/generate/amazon/male
And finally, a list of available generators is available through:
https://fumbbl.com/api/name/list
As you can probably see, there are a limited amount of name generators and I'm looking for ideas for adding more of them. An idea here wouldn't be "add one for race X", but more details about how to generate suitable names for that race, separated by gender if that applies and links to suitable name lists (the current generators has somewhere around 7-8000 name parts total).
Also, please let me know if you run into unsuitable names (offensive or names of extremely prominent characters from fantasy literature; we're talking Legolas prominency here, not just some random side-character in a random fantasy novel). |
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Purplegoo
Joined: Mar 23, 2006
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Apr 04, 2020 - 12:06 |
 
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This is pretty cool stuff, as I was loosely aware that having to go to the trouble of naming players was a slight barrier for one or two.
Great work! |
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MattDakka
Joined: Oct 09, 2007
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Apr 04, 2020 - 12:08 |
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Thanks for the implementation of the name generator!
Just an observation: Amazons' names should be female-only names by default, and so Witch Elves' names. |
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Christer
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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For amazons and witch elves, I assumed they were set to female by default. I'll double-check the ruleset though to make sure.
If they're not, it's a bug. |
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Timetis
Joined: Mar 31, 2014
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Apr 04, 2020 - 13:07 |
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Lovely new feature. Cheers Chister and roante.
Do the new name lists apply to newly generated loners too? Or is George Darkhammer here to stay? |
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roante
Joined: Jan 12, 2013
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Apr 04, 2020 - 14:44 |
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YAAAAY! Spotlight! Thanks for the highlight, Christer!  |
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Christer
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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| Timetis wrote: | | Do the new name lists apply to newly generated loners too? Or is George Darkhammer here to stay? |
Not yet. |
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PurpleChest
Joined: Oct 25, 2003
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Trevor Fistcock is doomed.
Awesome work boss. |
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Tripleskull
Joined: Oct 12, 2003
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Apr 04, 2020 - 18:15 |
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I love this feature. Thanks a lot. |
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Badoek
Joined: May 17, 2009
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Apr 04, 2020 - 19:24 |
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Great stuff! |
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Joost
Joined: Mar 17, 2014
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Apr 04, 2020 - 20:18 |
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This is a really great feature. naming Elves is a lot easier now. Thanks Roante / Christer! |
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grant85
Joined: Dec 19, 2005
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Apr 04, 2020 - 20:18 |
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so happy to see this added. cheers and thanks! |
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MercutioT
Joined: Mar 19, 2015
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Apr 05, 2020 - 15:38 |
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Wonderful little feature. One thing I'd point out (since 'neutral' is an option) is that the current Lizardmen settings default to male, but Lizardmen are not supposed to have gender.
(The Lizardman codex states this explicitly, and the lizardmen stars have always had distinctly androgynous-sounding names)
One more mosaic tile in the quest for perfection.... |
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sann0638
Joined: Aug 09, 2010
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Apr 05, 2020 - 16:23 |
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love it. Time for a "silliest autoname" competition. Or "first autonamed legend". |
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awambawamb
Joined: Feb 17, 2008
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Apr 05, 2020 - 17:35 |
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"92 minutes of applause"
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