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mc776And so it is done. Unfortunately this eliminates a much more easily searchably unique abbreviation "LT1" but given all my years of working with "HD" i'm sure i'll live.
Anyway, for posterity's sake here's what i had brainstormed before settling on the new name, with a bit of commentary:
What I was trying to do:
The old LibreTehom proposed in the original issue didn't work out because there was already a game called Tehom (albeit tabletop) and it would just sound like a FLOSS version of that.
By that point, though, the "near east chaos sea monster" motif was already very well lodged in my head, and given I had a letter L something involving Leviathan was clearly the next step... which then had me looking through an entire dictionary's worth of words starting with T. (And L, too, before remembering Leviathan.)
Tomb stuck out as being short, evocative of dangerous ancient ruins a videogame protagonist might explore, and more playing on the underworld motifs that I'm deliberately leaving in to subvert Doom's American post-Christian heroic dualist idea of hell.
"Leviathan's Tomb" was, however:
After juggling a few other shortlist items in my head the brevity and visual symmetry of simply using the older similar god-monster's name won out.
The oblique reference to the slaying - or, rather, the long-established destruction - of Hobbes' Leviathan was, of course, a bonus.
Anyway, for posterity's sake here's what i had brainstormed before settling on the new name, with a bit of commentary:
Lotan's Tomb
Leviathan Trepan
Labyrinth Trauma
Leviathan Trespass
Liminal Transgression
Lethal Transit
Leviathan Transient
----- sounds off and meh, taken off shortlist:
Liminal Tomb
Labyrinth Trespass
Liberated Tomb
Leviathan Trauma
----- definitely do not consider:
Lucifer's Transgression
Laconic Trepan
Last Trepan
Lorem Turnipsum
Lachrimae Tenebrarum
Leper Tantrum
Linear Time
Liturgy of Thanatos
Leviathan Tribunal
Lobster Thermidor
Left: Tolerant
Lobster Trap
Lex Talionis
Lucifer's Torment
Latrines & Trenches
Lucifer's Toilet
What I was trying to do:
- keep the interlocking LT logo conceit
- expand on the developing theme of wandering in the outer darkness, chaos of the unknown depths, etc. with the sea as a natural metaphor for the void of space
- reference some concept of freedom somehow
The old LibreTehom proposed in the original issue didn't work out because there was already a game called Tehom (albeit tabletop) and it would just sound like a FLOSS version of that.
By that point, though, the "near east chaos sea monster" motif was already very well lodged in my head, and given I had a letter L something involving Leviathan was clearly the next step... which then had me looking through an entire dictionary's worth of words starting with T. (And L, too, before remembering Leviathan.)
Tomb stuck out as being short, evocative of dangerous ancient ruins a videogame protagonist might explore, and more playing on the underworld motifs that I'm deliberately leaving in to subvert Doom's American post-Christian heroic dualist idea of hell.
"Leviathan's Tomb" was, however:
- way too long to fit in places that originally anticipated a four-letter word
- already taken as a name for a couple other gaming things
After juggling a few other shortlist items in my head the brevity and visual symmetry of simply using the older similar god-monster's name won out.
The oblique reference to the slaying - or, rather, the long-established destruction - of Hobbes' Leviathan was, of course, a bonus.