[Icehouse] Re: New Icehouse games posted on www.icehousegames.org/wiki/ for playtesting and comments

[Dennis Kringe]

Hi and thanks for your first insights,

I considered Catapult, Trebuchet and even Sling or Slingshot as well, but  
because of the prossibility to integrate an ICE in Centrifuge and have a  
word that is speakable and original, I chose to call the mechanic  
centrificeing (even though I am well aware that it is very close to  
sacrificing and the word Centrifuge is usually used in a different context  
with a slightly different meaning).

About those other words you proposed:
* I think treb is a word that doesn't reflect what the mechanic does,  
because people won't associate trebuchet with it, when they hear it.
* catapulting (or catapaulting, don't know if it is a typing error or  
meant to be spelt that way) sounds good and reflects the mechanic - it may  
be an alternative - on the other hand I think it sounds too "normal" for  
an Icehouse game, when there IS the possibility to integrate the word ICE  
into the mechanics name.

What exactly is it, that you find awkward about centrificeing (no, I'm not  
letting go of it that easily ;) ), except it's similarity to sacrificing?

Dennis


Am 05.07.2006, 06:35 Uhr, schrieb Eric Wald <eswald at gmail.com>:

> Tome Gnome wrote:
>> I agree that "centrificing" is awkward (although fun to say). It seems  
>> to me
>> that the solution is to reduce the word "trebuchet" to "treb," and use  
>> that
>> as the verb, as in "So is this the point where I treb it?" or "This game
>> requires very accurate trebbing."
>
> My only problem with "centrificing" is that it is too close to
> "sacrificing," which is not quite what you want with the mechanic.
> "Catapaulting" sounds good to me; at least one of the games refers
> to a catapault, but that shouldn't be too much of a conflict.
> "Treb," on the other hand, sounds to me more like "treble" than
> "trebuchet," perhaps because I have never used the latter.
>
> - Eric
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