Naming your characters

[DGMacphee]

BTW: What with "Dekker" and "Murdoch" listed already in the thread, how many more A-Team names can we get?

A minor qubble: It was actually 'Decker' from the A-Team.

But to answer your question........



'Nuff said.


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[Igor]

Unordinary names don't always make them memorable.  I couldn't tell you the name of the character in "Out of Order," even though he had a very unordinary name.  Why?  Because his name was hardly mentioned during the game.  That's the trick.  It's all in the dialog.  The characters need to constantly talk and refer to each other by name.

Either that, or you name the game after the main character
I like weird and not too common names.

[Snake]

Igor, where'd Ignac come from? I love that name


--Snake

[Igor]

Hehe, yeah- Ignac is one of the old names that were quite common before 1900 (derivated from Ignacious, etc.), but are now so rare you hardly find anyone named like that. I remember i was once looking at one of those calendars that have name-days on them and i cought "Ignac"- i thought it would make an interesting and funny name for main character (and i knew it would couse pronoucing problems to all English speakers ), so...