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How To Make A Creative World Name - A Guide
SHadowfiend69
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As I was getting ready to take Official pictures of my world It came to me I still needed to name it.
Because it was in a different culture It was very difficult to come up with a name and I still haven't yet, But I found lots of good ways to help you come up with names.
This will be a tutorial showing you how to create a world name easy. And you'll be surprised how cheesy and easy these town or city names can be.
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Post One - Introduction
Post Two - list of tricks and tips
Post Three - Examples of cheesy names
Because it was in a different culture It was very difficult to come up with a name and I still haven't yet, But I found lots of good ways to help you come up with names.
This will be a tutorial showing you how to create a world name easy. And you'll be surprised how cheesy and easy these town or city names can be.
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Post One - Introduction
Post Two - list of tricks and tips
Post Three - Examples of cheesy names
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Alot of people think too deep into making names (like me) and try to think of something creative but the most sucssesful city's are in fact the most easiest of names. New york was just a group of people who where home sick from york in england and decided to name there town "New york" making them feel less home sick.
An easier way of making a name for your world is to look at the the land. back to the Bridgeport example, they have a massive bridge, and its a port.
Here is a list of 'name parts' you could use.keep note its only wise to use these if you have or had this in your world. Unless its a play on words.
Landscape
Mountain
hill
valley
river
ocean
sea
lake
pond
flats
feild(s)
beach
island
cliff
desert
platue
Distant's
long
short
hight(s)
Trees
fir
cherry
palm
oak
Dicrection(s)
east
south
north
west
age
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old
new
young
elder
Colors
Orange
Red
Yellow
Gold
Purple
Brown
Gray
Black
White
Blue
Green
Pink
Silver
Teal
misc
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solitude (alone)
Japanese Names
Japanese are slightly diferent as they have Suffixes. Suffixes always go last
Direction(s)
chūō (中央) or naka- (中) - central
higashi (東) - east
kita (北) - north
minami (南) - south
nishi (西) - west
u (右) ("right") and sa (左) ("left")
age
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hon or moto (本) - the original (old)
shin (新) - new
landscape
hama(浜) for a beach
hantō (半島) for a peninsula
ishi (石) or iwa (岩) for a rock
izumi (泉) for a spring
kaikyō (海峡) for a strait
kawa or -gawa (川 or 河) for a river
ko (湖) for a lake
nada (灘) for a sea
oka (岡) for a hill
saki (崎) or misaki (岬) for a promontory
san or -zan (山) for a mountain
sawa or -zawa (沢) for a stream
shima or -jima (島) or tō for an island
tani or -dani (谷) for a valley
wan (湾) for a headland or bay
yama (山) for a mountain
Natural world
ki or -gi (木) for a tree
matsu (松) for a pine tree
mori (森) for a forest
sugi (杉) for a sugi tree
ta or -da (田) for a rice paddy
Medieval japan
ichi (市), a market
-jō (城), a castle.
minato (港) for a harbor
shuku or -juku (宿), a post or station town on a traditional highway
Japanese Suffixes for names
Remember, these go at the END of the name
-ken (県) for a prefecture
-to (都, lit. "capital"), prefecture-level region name
-fu (府, lit. "office" or "area"), prefecture-level region
dō (道), an "administrative circuit"
-gun (郡), a district, usually rural.
-shi (市), a city
-ku (区), a ward of a city
-machi or -chō (町), a town
-mura or -son (村), a village
japanese names where taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_place_names
Remember, Surnames are an often use for town or city names as well. Or company names.
EA Names
Sunset Valley
PleasentView
Riverview
Champs les Sims
Shang Simla
Al Simhara
Twinbrook
Bridgeport
Appaloose plains
Barnacle bay
Hidden Springs
Lunar Lakes
starlight shoars (I think)
Names not yet used by players
Red Rock
White Sands
Purple Mountains
Blue Sea
Green Feild
Matthew, out. I'm going to go have me self some Pie.
Here's a list of all the names of each of the worlds I have created so far.
1 KELLOG ISLAND - named after the cereal, but with the word Island added, becouse it was well an Island.
2 LAS MONTAÑAS ROJAS - Spanish for the Red Mountains. Its a desert cowboy town.
3 AUTUMN LEAVES - A small town in the Autumn. Its supposed to be in early October. There's some Halloween as well as some general autumn themed decor. Lots of fall colors
4 JUSTINBURG - A small city named after someone I know.
And the world I'm currently working on right now.
5 NORTON - Its named after the anti virus software.
I use the Sunset Valley Lite map and re-did many, many things so much so that it became almost the opposite of what it had been before. It had been retro and dated and I made it contemporary. It lacked things I added, etc.
So I played on the differences and went with "opposite" . . . my world is named Sunrise Hills as opposed to Sunset Valley.
It still has Valleys AND Hills and the sun still sets and rises again every day. But the name reminds me that it is totally different from the original while still being similar in that it was based off that town and its residents
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My second world was going to be an island so I mulled this one over a lot more. Finally I looked down at it one day and saw that the huge rock structure in the center looked kind of like a turtle if you were looking from the correct angle.
I also happen to LOVE sea turtles as I swam with them when I was snorkeling in Maui. So it became clear it would have to be called Turtle Island. But I wanted something a little more exotic so I went with the Polynesian version, which "Penyu Pulau."
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Maybe my thought processes will help someone else too as they search for their world name.
Thanks, OP, for starting what could become a very interesting thread.
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hey, I have Norton.
this is good but I don't really want to put up on the thread "USE THESE NAMES!" because RFLong will get confused when putting the worlds into the index
I'm looking for more of name parts, like hills and sea. sea hills. sea what i mean?
For example.. Cherry Blossom is of course Sakura in Japanese, but also I saw what is was in Chinese its Yinghua.
SHadowfiend69,
Okay. I'm sorry, maybe I misunderstood you, but I thought you wanted our world names.
If you're interesting in things to put in names, how about colors.
Orange
Red
Yellow
Gold
Purple
Brown
Gray
Black
White
Blue
Green
Pink
Silver
Teal
Here are some examples of possible names for worlds that include colors
Red Rock
White Sands (Name of a real place by the way. I think its a US air force base)
Purple Mountains
Blue Sea
Green Feild
Thanks, let me add those.
I hope you don't mind but Ill add those names you just made under the world name list.
You're Welcome. No, go right ahead, I don't mind at all.