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deepnight / ldtk

Modern, lightweight and efficient 2D level editor

https://ldtk.io

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New app name #124

Closed deepnight closed 4 years ago

deepnight commented 4 years ago

As some people pointed out, LEd is nice & short, but hard to find on google results, and thus, might be an issue at some point.

Btw, LEd obviously stands for Level EDitor

Therefore, I might rename it before 1.0 release, and I'm open to suggestions :)

deepnight commented 4 years ago

Related #122

di-effe commented 4 years ago

Level Editor Toolbox? LET That does not help with Google 😂

deepnight commented 4 years ago

CooLED

(Just throwing some random ideas here)

jnareb commented 4 years ago

There is also a name conflict with LaTeX Editor, called LEd freeware for Windows, though the project seems abandoned - last release was in 2009 (and it doesn't support UTF-8, IIRC),

nion-ne commented 4 years ago

L-Ed feels higher level/dynamic than a lot of alternatives so I propose:

Super Level Editor!

Or SLED 🛷

Though not sure that would help the google results issue..

RPGillespie6 commented 4 years ago

I think you should try to preserve the "LED" roots somehow! The following have very few or irrelevant hits on google (which would let the editor float to the top of the results):

Shuji (in honor of Shuji Nakamura, inventor of the blue LED)
Lonyak (in honor of Nick Holonyak, inventor of red LED, meta like previous)
Lumin (going along with light theme)
Dioded (diode + editor; LED is a light emitting diode)
Leddel (palindrome form of led - 'leddel' sounds kind of like 'level')
...or some variation

RPGillespie6 commented 4 years ago

One other idea I had would be to incorporate some or part of "haxe" into the name which has the dual purpose of advertising the haxe API:

Haxeled (haxe + level + editor)
Ledaxa (level editor, with haxe api)
...or some other haxe easter egg

qkdreyer commented 4 years ago

Leved, which stands for the same things and also rhymes with loved

di-effe commented 4 years ago

Leved, which stands for the same things and also rhymes with loved

I like Leved

sangohan commented 4 years ago

Maple - [Map][L]evel[E]ditor

gmisail commented 4 years ago

As much as I like the name, I think Maple would probably conflict with the mathematics software of the same name.

deepnight commented 4 years ago

Leveled?

@sangohan Maple is used for another app :(

nion-ne commented 4 years ago

The thing that made me notice the editor straight away was the way stuff kinda dynamically "grew" as the map was being painted. Maybe a name that plays up to that strength?

Dymato - Dynamic Mapping Tool

Or something to that effect :P

gmisail commented 4 years ago

Building off of @Leukai, a possibility would be Delta, since it combines LEd (albeit backwards) as well as the idea of growth, as the delta character represents change. However, I am 110% sure that this name is in use already...

Jouby commented 4 years ago

Leed - LEvel EDitor ?

Igecode commented 4 years ago

I think a short word that don't exist is the best solution. Like "Leved", closest enough from a real word. LEditor ?

deepnight commented 4 years ago

What do you think about LDTK (stands for Level Designer ToolKit)?

RPGillespie6 commented 4 years ago

I like it. There is a name collision with a project of the same name (https://github.com/hpparvi/ldtk) but seems obscure enough that this project could usurp it in the search index?

deepnight commented 4 years ago

Solved the question by picking Level Designer Toolkit (for LDtk) :)

LDtk-512