It's a public thingy! Involving naming a monster.

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:47 pm

Not entirely wanting to fill up the board here with spam about my game, but....
PUBLIC THINGY!
Because I’m not always the most brilliant name-maker, I decided to ask you folk, what would you call this guy?:

Mind you, this guy is fairly big. Just shoot me ideas here, and I’ll take whoever’s idea is the “winner” for me, and I’ll add you to special thanks in the credits!

Go ahead, you know you wannaaaaa.

Newbie Newtype · Post by **Newbie Newtype** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:50 pm

You should name it "Public Thingy".

SwampTroll · Post by **SwampTroll** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:39 pm

Jelloeyes!

Spazman · Post by **Spazman** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:43 pm

I'd call it "Enigma"

mjohnson092088 · Post by **mjohnson092088** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:33 pm

give it some mouths too, then call it a "gibbering abomination".

if you don't want to rip off D&D, you could call it "optometrist's dream patient". he must spend a lot on sunglasses during the summer.

or, if you don't want such a silly name, you could go with "eyesore", "eyecelot", "oculgoo", or "retinasty" if you want to keep an eyeball theme going on.

oh, and my girlfriend says "rufus, the travelling blob."

Fenrir-Lunaris · Post by **Fenrir-Lunaris** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:47 pm

Occulus, Occulant, Retinant, Beholder Ooze, Eyemore, Eyegore, Visualizer.

Pepsi Ranger · Post by **Pepsi Ranger** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:31 pm

There was once a thread started long ago that had the intended purpose of naming creatures when the author couldn't think of a good one for himself. The mirrored thread on Castle Paradox had more hits than the one on Slime Salad, but it's a shame that neither was ever really used much. That's what we get when we don't sticky things:

Castle Paradox version:

http://www.castleparadox.com/ohr/viewtopic.php?t=6139

Slime Salad version:

http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=927

And I second "oculgoo."

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 12:11 am

mjohnson092088 wrote: oh, and my girlfriend says "rufus, the travelling blob."

Considering the kind of enemy it is, I wouldn't call it that...buuuuuuuut, I could name a certain other character that in the game, bonus points to her.

Spoonweaver · Post by **Spoonweaver** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 1:50 am

Glorbopus

NeoSpade · Post by **NeoSpade** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:37 am

iBlob, Hexeyes, Eyegloop, Purple Heyes, Lazy Eyes, I.C.Pain, Great Eye'd Devourer.

I gave several varying degrees of silly and sensible as I'm uncertain of the feel you're going for

Mewmew · Post by **Mewmew** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 2:35 am

Hmm.... how about things like.... Eye-ronic, Eye-DDQD, Eye Salad umm.... Eye Seek You? Seeker... beholder? XD

Spoonweaver · Post by **Spoonweaver** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 3:11 pm

It kind of reminds me of a D&D monster called a Gibbering Mouther.

Only, it has no mouths, so it can't very well be called a mouther can it? So maybe a play on that?

Like just Gibbering?

Or Gibbering Eyes

Gibbering No-Mouther?

FnrrfYgmSchnish · Post by **FnrrfYgmSchnish** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 3:18 pm

My first thought was that it looks like a shoggoth (...which I'm guessing is what the Gibbering Mouther was based on, also.) Though they also usually have lots of mouths and tentacles and other random parts sticking out all over instead of just eyes.

GLOW · Post by **GLOW** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:33 am

Giant purple peanut monster! Gipupemo?

guo · Post by **guo** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:05 am

Well, considering it doesn't have ears (and assuming it can't lip read) I'd call it whatever I pleased.

... Should my assumptions prove wrong, I think "Sir" would suffice!