I’m too frazzled to look it up, but a few years back there was a great IF story, Steph Cherrywell I think… something something Monsters from Spaaaace? Brain-Eating maybe?
How is that not on this list!
Although “Llamageddon” is probably the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.
So with all this perspective, what do you think makes a funny or good title?
There’s a no man’s land between WhAt An OuTrAgEoUs TiTLe with lots of weird words and one that’s just tongue-in-cheek with a straight face.
Counterfeit Monkey is brilliant because it hints at concept, mechanics, and plot in two words.
That’s my ideal: one or two words hopefully with a pun or a bluntness or a double entendre that makes wry sense with what the game is.
I’m also a sucker for a good over-lengthy/“pompous” title.
Reference and Representation: An Approach to First-Order Semantics
So straight-faced, there’s gotta be some irony and I’m interested.
Leather Goddesses of Phobos A Freak Accident Leaves Seattle Pantsless
You know what you’re in for.
And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One
Wordy in a good way, suggesting recursion and meta.
Lost Pig
Blunt. Exactly how the main character communicates.
The Trolley Problem Problem The End of Earth, and you are a victim/survivor of this incident at least, depending on which way you look at it.
Redundancy or verbosity conveys a particular sort of corporate obliviousness.
Something that can either totally work or totally not since it’s overused is [Something] Simulator [Year] which usually implies an absurd reductionist perspective of a subject.
Oh I can just imagine him: drunk as a skunk on watery mimosas at 11:37, haranguing the waitresses about Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle anytime they have to check on him, until the manager’s forced to come out.
I did have a dream once where I made an IF called “on getting your tarot read in the line at mcdonalds” (which was a clear riff on 16 ways to kill a vampire at mcdonalds), I might change it to another chain like. burger king or sonic