Spring RTS Engine

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WaffleHut

Crazy Eighty-Eight

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I-scream-sand-witch

88 mph

1.21 Jiggawatts!

That was actually a serious request. Continued updated projects need new codenames to attract the outsides attention. Otherwise its just the same old "spring" with a new number.

use animals with funny noses.

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88 mph

1.21 Jiggawatts!

The Back-To-The-Feature puns are just flying about...

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Yes, that was horrific... I'm sorry.

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That was actually a serious request. Continued updated projects need new codenames to attract the outsides attention. Otherwise its just the same old "spring" with a new number.

Could it be useful to vote for a "category" from which future spring names will be pulled? (Like the dessert theme of Android, or

use animals with funny noses.

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I also think animal names might work (relatively neutral political ground) and are "mascot-able". Just don't know if it fits well.

Simply using the word "spring" in different languages might also work. For example: Frühling (German, at least that is what Google says)

I was actually considering asking for release names a couple weeks back. Damn my complacency!

As far as name scheme suggestions go, I'd go with something with relevance to the changes introduced in the update. This has the added benefit of hinting at what the release is about to occasional watchers of the project.

E.g. The last update, which introduced pathing improvements and safemode, could be named something like "One True Path, "Path of Least Resistance," "Faraday Cage" or just "Faraday" (A Faraday cage protects its contents from electric fields by changing the path taken).

BOOBS

MidKnight wrote:I was actually considering asking for release names a couple weeks back. Damn my complacency!

As far as name scheme suggestions go, I'd go with something with relevance to the changes introduced in the update. This has the added benefit of hinting at what the release is about to occasional watchers of the project.

E.g. The last update, which introduced pathing improvements and safemode, could be named something like "One True Path, "Path of Least Resistance," "Faraday Cage" or just "Faraday" (A Faraday cage protects its contents from electric fields by changing the path taken).

Good Points!

using codenames means, that part of people will use hte codenames, others will use verison numebrs, and people do not understand each other.. it just adds complexity without benefit, except "it is funny".
see ubuntu.
also, we want to make spring (the engine) go more into the background, where users do not even know what spring is, when they play ZK. giving the engine codenames does not help engine or content devs.

Well, i dislike having it in the background. Something in the background doesent attract new devs who want to add features. Why not showing some Pride of the Spring heritage!

salvation - because it fixes lot's of bugs :-D

Fine Spring "Salvation" it is.

We shall call it by emotional states that are induced by religion. Somehow fitting.

SalAvation

Results so far:

Timestamp If the next Spring version were to have a code name, what should it be? (This is version 88)

3/15/2012 2:16:03 WaffleHut, 88 mph
3/15/2012 2:28:32 88 mph
3/15/2012 3:43:54 Crazy Eighty-Eight
3/15/2012 12:26:56 "Nuclear Winter" or "Winter"
3/15/2012 12:50:21 salvation
3/15/2012 13:11:08 88 mph
3/15/2012 13:50:52 8 ) 8 )
3/15/2012 14:31:45 inf^2
3/15/2012 14:35:56 inf^2
3/15/2012 16:19:26 WaffleHut
3/15/2012 19:28:17 black mamba
3/15/2012 19:28:34 black mamba
3/15/2012 20:10:42 I-scream-sand-witch
3/16/2012 2:21:41 Nuclear Winter
3/16/2012 12:50:49 Rise of the Bladesteel Civilization
3/16/2012 20:11:57 Black Mamba
3/16/2012 22:12:40 Rotating Rotor
3/16/2012 22:21:23 boobs
3/17/2012 1:49:34 WaffleHut, Black Mamba
3/17/2012 13:41:33 Nuclear Winter