Random missions: What’s in a name?

Today I worked on generating names… That’s way more work than it seems…

I want the mission text to have some flavour to it, so I need to generate customer names, names for the objects to carry, in some cases, the reason to do something… This is generating natural text, which is not easy (and I’m kind of improvising as I go, instead of really thinking it through, but that’s my usual development process anyway!).

Anyway, thanks to people on the internet that compile lists of names, nouns, etc, I can generate names of governments, corporations and people such as:

Mrs. Monika Reth
Vangilder Investment
Arvizo Collective
Ogas Logistics
The Monarchy of Ertack
Lady Claudine Haynie
His Grace Nickolas Marcinka
States of Unetue
Flinn Confederacy
Miss America Schaeffler
Breakfast Consumer Products
Mrs. Pearlie Dagenais
Puothib Collective
Muscle Financial
Emess Republic
Louhu Alliance
Money Genetech
The Monarchy of Iless
Bressi Pharmaceuticals
Someone
Klebe Dominion
Ethiopia Company
Lute Healthcare
Wash Applied Sciences
Archon Monika Button
Catamaran Biological
An interested party
Lord Clifton Beaumier
Witness Media
Alliance of Trunent
Lord Lewis Barich
Miss Jayna Hollett
Coalition of Shaza
Holy Urtang
Isanoune Regency
Gray Systems
Route Holdings
Theater Financial
Archon Annamarie Chiasson
Open Telecommunications
Archon Ryan Hartwig
Her Grace Raelene Wieman
Talas Holdings
Chese Cooperative
Lady Micha Lovorn

This is just a sample, of course…

Next step is generating “package” names, for delivery missions… I wanted to have “reasons” behind the missions, but that seems really hard to achieve, I’ll see how it looks with the approach I’m currently following and see if it works out…

Now listening to “Isohyet” by “Oblique Rain”