So, what is it going to be called?

chucker · **Posted:** Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:59 pm

Your Own Uru Restoration Movement Opensource Model. Or Yeesha's Open Uru Restoration: Myst Online Moments.

Gehn, lord of ages · **Joined:** Sat Dec 13, 2008 4:24 pm **Posts:** 255

"urulal - land alloted in exchange for a share of the crop to different
individuals, but especially to personnel of the temple to
supplement their income."
(http://www.geocities.com/digital3v14/texts/sumerdic.htm)

"uruku - larvae" (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uruku)

Teedyo · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:26 pm

chucker wrote:

Your Own Uru Restoration Movement Opensource Model. Or Yeesha's Open Uru Restoration: Myst Online Moments.

Shouldn't that be: Yeesha's Open Uru Restoration: Myst Online Moments of Maintenance Activity???

Christopher910 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2008 4:17 pm

I would like to stay with the word MORE. I change the word from Experience to Exploration because we are going to launch exploration not an expetience.

Myst
Online
Restoration
Exploration

Clat · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2008 4:43 pm

I don’t like acronyms. They appeal to English speaking people only. I prefer a name, short, simple, evocative. Uru is perfect.

EthanEver · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2008 4:55 pm

Just as long as you wont call it URURI

You know we have all the best stuff and the best ideas in Italy :lol:

chucker · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:00 pm

Christopher910 wrote:

I would like to stay with the word MORE. I change the word from Experience to Exploration because we are going to launch exploration not an expetience.

Myst
Online
Restoration
Exploration

MORE stood for "Myst Online Rerestoration Experiment", which is still quite fitting.

(I still prefer plain ol' "Uru", though.)

Whilyam · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 1:04 am **Posts:** 4134

How about MOWOG? Myst Online Wildly Optimistic Game?

Rusty_Russell · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:51 pm

I wonder how he'd feel to be singled out and have a game named after him.

Karkadann · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:54 pm

how Bout something simple like The New Uru

Rusty_Russell · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:55 pm

Nope, because it isn't new.

Wafna · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:35 pm

I'm up to whatever it is called. OpenURU is my favorite suggested, as it is simple and descriptive. One problem that I see with just calling it Uru is that Uru could be thought of as the generic term for the game. I have always called it that unless I am referring to a specific version. I don't think I am the only person here who does that. People could refer to Uru and you don't know if they are talking about the game in all of its forms or just the open source version.

OpenURU could be problematic as well, as it would be abbreviated to OU, and the dyslexic among us could confuse it with Uru Obsession!

TomahnaGuy · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:40 pm

How about: This Online Myst Adventure Has No Added Ground Up Yeesha's.

Or just MORE.

TG

EthanEver · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:42 pm

I still think it is a restoration experiment so, MO:RE
MystOnline is fine by me as is URU, but since we will want to differentiate between the various games and "incarnations" then MO:RE is the most accurate.

@ TG :lol:

Anaerin · **Joined:** Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:20 pm **Posts:** 303

I think URU should take a page from other GNU projects with their names:

Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder
GNU's Not Unix
Allegro Low Level Game Routines
LiVES is a Video Editing System

And so on.

So, I propose:

Uru: Restored Universe

So, what is it going to be called?

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