IF Name Generator updated

Some of the ones I found would have some funny elements:

Sherlock Holmes: Door
“It seemed to me that a careful examination of the hinges and the wood might possibly reveal some traces of this mysterious individual. You know my methods, Watson.”

Alien Packrat
Hoarders: Episode #2005 - “Alien Packrat”
Upon visiting the Qua’ardar Galaxy, host Sally Watts met Mr. Quaa-d’mgir, a notorious galaxy-wide hoarder. He is known for keeping space dust under his personal jetpack and even a few meteors stacked in his abortorium.

Jack in Space
Jack and Jill, went up the Hill,
to get a-board a space-ship
Jack tossed Jill, and blasted off,
And Jill just Got a burnt lip…
Up Jack flew, and space did view,
as fast as he could eye-ball,
from rock to rock, till he did dock,
but then he died on free-fall.

Operation Milk Coffee
The one thing you want is a coffee. You need it to survive. Is that really asking too much? I guess it is.

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This one makes me think of this.

Augustine and Me With No Beer
“Dude, you totally popped a boner in church.”
“Shut up. Did you get the stuff?”
“No, my ID started peeling at the edges. I swiped some rum from my dad’s cabinet, though.”
“Aww, that stuff tastes like the devil’s ass. How are we going to score any chicks with that?”
“Fuck off, church-boner.”

House the Navy
Nobody ever considered the Third Amendment all that controversial… UNTIL NOW.

Gumshoe Trollslayer
On the mean streets of near-future Seattle, one man must elude the megacorp thugs who are after him for violating Shadowrun copyright.

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Distress That Fish
The fish are back, and looking for revenge!

Spacestation Manor
The logical evolution of steampunk - spaace!

Or maybe it’s better described as “Babylon 5 meets Downton Abbey.”

Castle Underground Crypt
An archeology expedition takes an unexpected turn when they discover an unusual castle with a terrible secret.

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Escape from Death
Temporarily.

Murder the Cult
They’re evil. Really. They’re a cult. Look, you’ll get bonus XP if you just shut up and do what you’re told.

Medusa Series Premiere: Missed by a hair - but not forgotten!
In the case of Medusa, being missed by a hair is actually a big thing.

Assault on Quest
Graham Nelson and Campbell Wild join forces against the competition!

Brian and the Books
It turns out to be a cheap rip-off of The Neverending Story.

Personalized Adventure Game Murderer
Because you wouldn’t want to be killed by a generic adventure game murderer!

Journey to Alpha Centauri 5
Truly the game least likely to spawn four sequels.

The Trouble with Spam
Yeah, what is the trouble with spam?

Blow Job Wish
Don’t say it out loud, or it won’t come true.

Divine Prologue to the Saturn Chronicles
It’s like the Prologue in Heaven, except that God actually wrote it. He explains why those rings seemed like a good idea at the time.

Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered School
Undiscovered by perverts, that is. Until now.

Undo Schooldays
It’s no use. You’ll make all the same mistakes again.

Undo Schooldays (alternate version)
And let’s hope that this time it will stay undiscovered.

Lists and Lycanthropy
The harrowing story of a young woman who turns into a LISP programmer at every full moon!

Dinner with My Stomach
I like to have my stomach present when I eat.

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Pirate of Nazareth
They were in for a big surprise when they made him walk the plank!

Silk Arthur
But don’t worry – his sword is hard as steel.

Genocide Hot Dog
Much smarter than genociding @.

Journey to Alpha Centauri (In Real Spaceship!
Seriously, it’s not made of cardboard! You totally won’t die!)

Halloween Sisyphus
One day of the year, he’s allowed to roll a huge pumpkin.

The Taxman Cheater
A riveting story about tax evasion!

Brian and the Dishonest Backyard
It’s been lying there all the time.

Suspended Annabel?
Not from school. From the rafters. The mask makes it hard to be certain of her identity, but then again, who cares?

The Art of the Crystal Wand
You can’t just stick it in there and hope it’ll do its magic, you know.

Curse of the Infinite Beauty
It may sound like a blessing, but you don’t know what it does to the men.

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lol. I love the church/beer one maga!

Heads will roll?

There’s always room for a “kill everything” game

Title says it all

We’re off to win the lottery, the Wonderful Lottery of IF…

I is, I is! Happily, platforms did done helped me out :smiley: :stuck_out_tongue:

The subtitle/heading under review being “Dark Incontinence”. WT? lol…

A game about the seriousness of eating heathily…

What happens when Inform fights back?

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Project of the Gods
Sandbox. As committee chair of the Human Development Project, you must assign your fellow deities to subcommittees tasked with whiteboarding the various aspects of human nature. Hilarious tragedy almost invariably ensues (e.g. Loki gets assigned to Moral Conscience, Tezcatlipoca to Creativity, Mantis to Sexuality and Reproduction).

Eamon Afterlife
They say that if you lived a virtuous and productive IF life, when you die you go to the City of Secrets or perhaps the Dreamhold. You, on the other hand, go to Eamon.

Under Cover Witch
On the cover image, a tall, pale woman with improbably long black hair is looking over her shoulder as she strides away down a seedy alley, with an ominous cityscape in the background. She has a trenchcoat and really cool boots. One hand brandishes an enchanted .44 Sig; the other swirls with mystical (i.e. cyan) energy. A faithful wolf lopes at her side. This tells you everything you need to know about the rest of the game.

Blow Sherlock Holmes
Caters to a very specific audience.

Aunts of Mystery Adventure
Who are the Aunts of Mystery? Why did your parents claim to be only children? What are these strangely-shaped birthday presents, and how do you unwrap them?

Genocide Sam Mission 2
Genocide Sam is even worse than Genocide @.

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maga, I almost thought you said the Human Instrumentality Project, which would’ve worked with the game title too!

I certainly did. And I meant it.

Void: Heads
An Interactive Tea Party

This is the game that Caves
“Okay, okay, you win already, just go away.”

Point 2 Santa!
He’s a remarkably good tennis player, even in that outfit.

The Hand That Time
…but the fire next time.

Puzzle Gauntlet
Points for honesty.

The Marvelous Land from Hell
It’s wonderfully infernal!

Chunky Describes How You’re Feeling
Oh, it does, it does.

You Lake
Me boat. (I also got these, consecutively: You Enchanter and I House)

Pass Lunch
It’s not just about bananas anymore. Nope.

stupidgame Your Responsibility
Hey, that’s not fair. I just downloaded it.

A Sugared Andrew Plotkin
…generates 97 updated Glulx compilers a day.

Happy Adventure

BASK IN SUNSHINE. PICK FLOWERS. SING.

Pong of Mordor
You don’t even want to know what the balls and paddle are.

Quest of Hugo II: Electric Boogaloo
Kent Tessman led a more exciting life than you knew.

My Wetlands!
Battle the dastardly EPA.

A Witch On Fire
They’re made of wood, you know.

Everybody Loves Business
Thanks for your comp entry, Governor Romney.

Dark Money
Thanks for your second comp entry, Governor Romney.

Medusa Eye of Bain
That’s enough, Governor Romney.

These don’t make me want to play them:
And Flaws
Amissville of Doom
Undo Many
Yet Another Damn Fantasy Isle
I’ll is the game that I wrote
The Emerald of Error Messages
Quest for Quest
Verb! (Reprise)
Film My Grave
Best of Rain
Pick Up the Phone Booth and Sadness
Phlegm Game
Murder Adventure
Castle 2
Arrow of Death Bloody Guns
Mop Akron
Drool Jim
Basic Error
Sexual Geezers
Dead Cellar
Beyond Cacophony
Download 7
Ruined Quest
Large House
No (demo)

…but these are oddly intriguing:
Tin Houdini
Lazy God
Fingertips: Vortex
Lair of Informal Time
Empire of the Apprentice
History Lizards
Lost Coffins
My Macrocosm
Spiderman Busted!
Sanctuary California
Digging God
Desert Fish
Merlin’s Tense
Dinosaur Tea Room
Amusement Prisoner
Encyclopedia Dastardly
Haunting of Vietnam
Necrotic Aisle
Heroes of Death
Adventure Orchestra
Flexible Darkness
Haunted Muffin
Murder Typo!
Threnody Adventure
Teeny Mountains

Sounds like it could be a great Steinbeck adaptation!

Once Past and Future, of course.

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I cannot stop laughing at Pick Up the Phone Booth and Sadness.

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Shamelessy ripping off Adam Thornton’s method, some short reviews of these titles:

Trapped in a Going!
The author’s attempt to put a positive spin on a game full of showstopper bugs fell somewhat flat.

Walker Escape from Dagobah
Star Wars reimagined darker and edgier. Yoda as psychopathic murderer was a nice touch.

Calliope Pants
The gimmick got old fast.

Star Wars Legs
This typo should have never made it past copyediting. And certainly not to gold master.

Pants der Weisen
Haven’t we all had days like that?

El gorrón Anne
An adaptation of the Diary of Anne Frank into Spanish IF. Surprisingly not bad.

And here’s another one I’d like to play:

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Surely there must be a SpeedIF sometime around these names and/or these reviews?

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Been done: the SpeedIF at PAX East 2011 ended up being based on the Name Generator (well, on a poster based on outputs of the Name Generator), and produced some nifty things.

But a good idea is worth doing twice, and I didn’t take part in that one (I write better in a more private environment, and I can code any time.) So a reprise would be worth it. (Once we’re out of Comp season. Perhaps early December, or is slotting things in between Thanksgiving and Christmas going to be too fine a needle to thread?)

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Aaaaaaaah. I didn’t know that - and it explains some things about that comp. :slight_smile:

Don’t we usually have a New Year’s Speed IF at around that time? We could probably merge them if we really wanted to.

Actually, I was planning on offering something related to the Name Generator as one option this year even before this marvellous thread made sure I absolutely had to.

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Violator Wonderland
Rejected title for Der Baron.

Calliope Mom
Orpheus is going to be grounded for a month, even after he apologises to that nice Mr. Hades.

Timeout of Darkest Africa
Yeah, the warlords, tsetse fly, minefields, HIV, child soldiers and oligarch government are pretty bad, but you know what really hurts? Dialup.

MC Your Pants
He’s tight, he’s dirty and he’s known to get down.

This Is Orphanorium
…roared Olivia, before kicking the social worker into the bottomless pit.

Pizza Quest Enlightenment
When I said I wanted a pizza with everything on it, I didn’t mean…

Gumshoe Reading in May
He sits beneath an apple tree at the tail-end of its flowering. Leafing idly through a hardback, he reads choice snippets of the Metaphysical Poets to the kitten resting its chin on his knee. A soft breeze caresses the hedgerows. His revolver and badge are forgotten. But on the horizon, storms gather.

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Wait, somebody translated my game into German?

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