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[Shadow]

Started adding achievements today to Din's Curse: Demon War.

[Shadow]

Added 50 achievements today to Din's Curse: Demon War.

[Ghost Matter]

I'd like it if the achievements worked in Impulse(or Steam, if they accept the game) and Raptr. It'd be awesome. Good work.

[Shadow]

I need to name some new caves/dungeons in Din's Curse: Demon War, any ideas?

[FloodSpectre]

Originally Posted by Shadow

I need to name some new caves/dungeons in Din's Curse: Demon War, any ideas?

Here are some random ones I forgot to suggest a while back:
Forsaken Sepulchre
Dead Wind Catacombs
Infernal Abyss
Cyclopean Cavern
Dismal Dungeon
Domain of the Dead
Bloody Barrow
Shattered Tomb
Treacherous Passage
Ebon Mausoleum
Bloodsoaked Pit
Tyrannical Labyrinth
Mines of Misery

[Greyloch]

-Shaggoroth's Maw
-Den of Iniquity
-Undertown
-Pit of Abandoned Hope
-Death's Embrace
-Arena of <insert war/battle deity of choice>

[SharpCarlos]

Here, I've attached several hundred. I actually had a thousand in the file, but it was bit bigger than the allowed attachment size.

Obviously, I just threw dungeony-sounding words together at random, and I didn't even check for duplicates, so there might be some. But this little exercise got me thinking: How is Din's Curse generating dungeon names now? Are they pulled randomly from a list, or randomly generated, like the list I just created?

But then I had a REALLY interesting thought: What if the dungeon names were, at least partially, procedurally generated based on the world modifiers? Like the way that items are named. So, in much the way that a sword which does fire damage and adds to your strength might be called a "Fiery Sword of Might", a dungeon in a world that has lots of rain and undead could be called the "Haunted Dungeon of Floods" or something.

[DeathKnight1728]

Slayer's Requiem

That's all i got.

[FloodSpectre]

Not terribly fond of "<adjective> <location> of <adjective>" names myself, they sound a little too bland to me. Something about just one descriptor sounds so much better to me when I read it.

Oh, and I too had been thinking names based on world modifiers or the tileset of the dungeon would be nice, but again, I think I'd prefer full dungeon names from a list (which I think is the current system of naming) than randomly generated, and certain entries in that list might have qualifiers like "only available with Undead worldmod."

[SharpCarlos]

Originally Posted by FloodSpectre

Not terribly fond of "<adjective> <location> of <adjective>" names myself, they sound a little too bland to me.

True. It just SCREAMS "randomly generated name", doesn't it?

One thing I thought would be nice would be to work a random proper noun into that final spot sometimes. So, "Deadly Caverns of Gazuul", or whatever. Or maybe even stick the town name in there.