Free Library Names Megathread!

[josefnpat]

I think Cake is a good name for anything. And if you plan on making a game making engine of sorts with LÖVE then CakeMaker is the logical conclusion. :crazy:

I like this. I've added cake to the list.

You convinced me, I'll be sure to name all my LOVE related releases using sexual innuendos with a license preventing rebranding.

That's your right, and you're welcome to do it. I enjoy my sexual innuendos as well, and have no problem including them in my own projects (HUMP being my favorite!)

.....To me this post really really felt like you simply made this thread to show off your "dong2lib"....Because besides that this is really pointless...or atleast add this somewhere else on the forums but here.

I'm sorry you feel that way. My dong2 library is old, arcane and outdated; but it's still called dong. If I wanted to pimp my own projects, I would have directed you to my website, and not the dong library. I suppose I do this with every post, as it's in my signature. While your point is taken, I was just trying to get the "ball rolling".

Since we're all using Lua for anything LÖVE related (and rarely some C here and there), I've found it easy albeit not very creative to use "moon" related names in deference to Lua itself, which you see outside of the LÖVE community, e.g. MoonScript.

Nice. I've added moon to the list. Thanks!

[Karai17]

All y'all need to get of josefnpat's case. While I am in favour of freedom of expression, and I am fond of the innuendos, jumping down his throat serves no purpose other than to prove the point of childish behaviour around here.

As for taking some part in this, I am currently working on a GUI library named DOMinatrix in reference to it using a DOM-like structure. I'm not exactly tied to that name and am willing to change it to something more friendly, or at least more subtle, if someone can come up with a new name that can really express what my library is and does.

[slime]

LÖVE codenames all originate from Invader Zim. There's quite a lot of material in there.

.....To me this post really really felt like you simply made this thread to show off your "dong2lib"....Because besides that this is really pointless...

This thread wasn't created randomly – there was a discussion in the LÖVE IRC channel about names, which started because josefnpat noted that LÖVE wasn't listed on someone's overview blog post of 2D game development, at the same time as someone else's blog post criticizing LÖVE's community was linked.

Coming up with good names is surprisingly hard for most people (myself included), and having a theme lets you have somewhere concrete to start from. Game jams use a similar technique for game ideas.

[ejmr]

All y'all need to get of josefnpat's case. While I am in favour of freedom of expression, and I am fond of the innuendos, jumping down his throat serves no purpose other than to prove the point of childish behaviour around here.

As for taking some part in this, I am currently working on a GUI library named DOMinatrix in reference to it using a DOM-like structure. I'm not exactly tied to that name and am willing to change it to something more friendly, or at least more subtle, if someone can come up with a new name that can really express what my library is and does.

All I want to really add is that I agree with not jumping on josefnpat, which happened to me which I brought up this issue thirteen months ago. So that's the Tl;DR.

Beyond that, what I wanted to say is that I really like your library DOMinatrix. I can't use it on a professional project because the name---for better or worse---crosses a line that too many people above my authority consider "inappropriate." I don't necessarily agree with them, but I can't use your library when for legal reasons I would be both obligated to credit you and yet be advised to not mention the name of your work, expressily because of its name. I am not mentioning any of this, unfortunately, because I have a better suggestion for a name---I think yours is clever, to be honest. I am simply mentioning this as example of how and why library names can be an issue for other developers, and hopefully convince other developers that names they use can prevent third parties from using those libraries, even if it's not directly in the control of that third-party.

[davisdude]

I'm awful at naming things, so this should be good for me
As for suggestions... I don't know, I guess I feel like it would have to be tied to the purpose of the library to be better.

[norubal]

- Sarang (사랑) Korean
- Ai (愛) Japanese
Both words means Love.

- LÖVEcraft
He is one of my favorite novel writer.

- Agape

[T-Bone]

The Swedish word for "love" is Kärlek. It even follows Löve's theme of using umlauts

[Doctory]

[...]
- LÖVEcraft
He is one of my favorite novel writer.

[...]

i swear to god someone is gonna come along, make a minecraft clone and call it LÖVEcraft

[riidom]

Ok here my suggestions.. not quite innovative, but maybe good as foundation

dong2
-------
contröl
lovetroller (add ö's where you want)
lovepotatoe (from couchpotatoe, because only such terrible lazy persons use controllers )


dominatrix
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(everything including "DOM" will probably sound a little bdsm related, therefore I am avoiding it completely in my suggestions)
AnnoLovini
litww (love it the web way)
ldom, lödom, döm (exceptions prove the rule)

[josefnpat]

- Sarang (사랑) Korean
- Ai (愛) Japanese
Both words means Love.

- LÖVEcraft
He is one of my favorite novel writer.

- Agape

Thanks! Added it to the list.

The Swedish word for "love" is Kärlek. It even follows Löve's theme of using umlauts :neko:

Nice, added that to the list as well.

Ok here my suggestions.. not quite innovative, but maybe good as foundation :)

dong2
-------
contröl
lovetroller (add ö's where you want)
lovepotatoe (from couchpotatoe, because only such terrible lazy persons use controllers ^^)


dominatrix
-------------
(everything including "DOM" will probably sound a little bdsm related, therefore I am avoiding it completely in my suggestions)
AnnoLovini
litww (love it the web way)
ldom, lödom, döm (exceptions prove the rule)

I'm kinda digging the potato idea. I might work off that, thanks!

I'm thinking of DOM names as well... I was thinking something like wisDOM?