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What is the official name of this engine?

Posted: 06 Mar 2018, 22:08
by ThinkSome
I've seen it referred to as "Spring RTS", "SpringRTS", "Spring", "Spring engine" and even just "spring" in multiple places. Which one should be counted as official?

Re: What is the official name of this engine?

Posted: 06 Mar 2018, 23:30
by abma
IMHO from here: https://github.com/spring/spring/blob/d ... ain.cpp#L1

-> "Spring engine"

see also at the top left of this page. 8)

Re: What is the official name of this engine?

Posted: 07 Mar 2018, 20:24
by ThinkSome
"SpringRTS" would imo look much better:
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Re: What is the official name of this engine?

Posted: 07 Mar 2018, 21:41
by FLOZi
Ummmm, is that the right image attached?

Re: What is the official name of this engine?

Posted: 07 Mar 2018, 22:55
by ThinkSome
FLOZi wrote:Ummmm, is that the right image attached?
Yes. Why wouldn't it be? "SpringRTS" looks much better to me:
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Re: What is the official name of this engine?

Posted: 07 Mar 2018, 22:57
by FLOZi
Ah the cropped version is better, couldn't find where on the screenshot it said 'Spring RTS'

Re: What is the official name of this engine?

Posted: 08 Mar 2018, 13:18
by Silentwings
Seems a tiny detail, tweaking branding/naming matters much more for games.

Could capitalize "spring" though, with 12 years of existence I think we've qualified as a proper noun ;)

Re: What is the official name of this engine?

Posted: 08 Mar 2018, 15:14
by Kloot
The engine's proper name is just "Spring", sans postfix.

Use "SpringRTS" to unambiguously refer to the whole project (engine, site, community) from elsewhere on the interwebs and/or as an easier-to-google shorthand for "the Spring RTS engine". Within Spring's ecosystem the "RTS" part can be dropped (but nobody will care if you don't), since you're unlikely to see any games running on "SpringFPS" or "SpringRPG" when booting up a lobby client.

The only official request is to not call it taspring.

Re: What is the official name of this engine?

Posted: 08 Mar 2018, 18:39
by FLOZi
I propose we rename to "Kloot Engine", having a quick glance at the github commit log. <3

Re: What is the official name of this engine?

Posted: 03 Oct 2018, 12:33
by smoth
Ha ha ha! Good to know klootykins is still around!

Re: What is the official name of this engine?

Posted: 23 Oct 2018, 19:14
by I153Chaika
It might sound like olympic nitpicking (or, as we call it in French, "buggering the flies") but it WILL be useful to know the exact name, with capitalisation etc, since it is crucial in finding the engine through search engines, tags, and for judicial procedures if it ever comes to that!

Re: What is the official name of this engine?

Posted: 24 Oct 2018, 09:43
by PicassoCT
It's "She who dances naked over the rainbow with armies at her feet in Spring".

Does that make you happy? It was concieved while some drunken sy's where hibernnating in a drug incudced coma on java.

Fucking hippies.

Re: What is the official name of this engine?

Posted: 24 Oct 2018, 19:25
by Forboding Angel
I153Chaika wrote: 23 Oct 2018, 19:14 olympic nitpicking (or, as we call it in French, "buggering the flies")
This is literally the greatest expression I have ever heard.

Re: What is the official name of this engine?

Posted: 24 Oct 2018, 20:00
by PicassoCT
Spring Protests Recursive Invariant Named Gameengines

Re: What is the official name of this engine?

Posted: 25 Oct 2018, 11:55
by Forboding Angel
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Re: What is the official name of this engine?

Posted: 25 Oct 2018, 16:52
by raaar
having the "RTS" in the name helps differentiate it from the java spring framework.

Re: What is the official name of this engine?

Posted: 25 Oct 2018, 17:22
by PicassoCT
Just imagine if we had a java spring port, that could hibernate- we could have so many devs. Who would write such verbose code.
Which would be so ummaintainable outside of a enterprise environment.
And so future proof.
Spring had instantly no future.