There's a bit of that too, certainly. After dredging thesauri for words to pair up to form a generic title that says "wargame" without implying an era, I'd have invented the title "Warcraft" in at least three separate ways ('craft' being under skill, game and tactics, or some such), had several moments of inspiration involving "Command" and "Conquer", along with "Might" (but not Magic) and so on. Try any suitable wordpair that doesn't sound like arse, ask Google about their conjunction and chances are you'll find there's already a game with the title.
The one I really wanted was "Conflict", but lo and behold, not only is it already used for a game, it's already used as a colon-preceeding title for a whole series of games, just like I wanted to do.
So mm, not only do you have to string two things together with a punctuation mark, the two things themselves have to be each be constructed out of at least two things smooshed together as well. Or if you're lucky, one word mangled.
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Date: 2006-03-24 05:13 pm (UTC)The one I really wanted was "Conflict", but lo and behold, not only is it already used for a game, it's already used as a colon-preceeding title for a whole series of games, just like I wanted to do.
So mm, not only do you have to string two things together with a punctuation mark, the two things themselves have to be each be constructed out of at least two things smooshed together as well. Or if you're lucky, one word mangled.