How to properly name your map's thread.

[cohadar]

Put the type of your map in thread name.

Bad titles: (actual)

• Death Gates
• God's Word: The True Way
• WW2: World in Flames [REVISED]
• Assassins Creed: The Animus Project
• Black Winter's Depository
• Asian Garden

Good titles: (invented)

• [ORPG] The Dawn Of Chaos
• [AoS](3vs3) Fields of Sorrow
• (6)[Hero Defense] Undead Survival
• [Dungeon] Treasure of Nevermore
• [Tower Defense] Invading Chaos

The reason you create threads in this forum is to get reviews and feedback.
Threads with a map type in title always get clicked before others.

 

[HolyFireX]

Do you mean a title that sounds good or a title that describe the map?

It's weird to have [ORPG] in front of your map......

 

[eubz]

So. should I call this a mini tutorial?

 

[cohadar]

It's weird to have [ORPG] in front of your map......

Not the map name, the thread name.
Look at the forum here, there are a couple of people who name their threads the way I described.

So. should I call this a mini tutorial?

It should probably be a sticky.

 

[rcshaggy]

So I can't name XXX Thrall and Jania getting it on?
Well anyway yeah I like on how the map is actually named right so people might be more interested in it.

 

[HolyFireX]

Oh, thread name? Yeah it's quite good. It clarifies what you need to know instead of clicking on every thread.

 

[Vengeancekael]

WW2: World in Flames [REVISED]
Assassins Creed: The Animus Project

And yet they got so much attention :/

Also "(6)[Hero Defense] Undead Survival" just looks messy and I would definitely not go for that one.

Also wrong section for this?

 

[bowser499]

A genre can NOT always be defined.

 

[cohadar]

A genre can NOT always be defined.

If a map is so bizzare that it has no genre it is usually in "crap" category.

@Vengeancekael
Yeah I know this is wrong section, but it was also meant as a message to the people in this section, so I decided to put it in here until some mod decides to move it.

As for attention some imaginary projects get, I can only repeat :/

 

[Talavaj]

pretty much the only one calling them like that is you
and I think giving away the [AoS] is rather.. counter productive

also successful name for threads are troll names like, how to properly name your maps.

 

[takakenji]

If a map is so bizzare that it has no genre it is usually in "crap" category.

Ah yes thank you SomeoneFInally agrees ThatcreAtivity is the Definition of Crpa thank YOu wise sage

 

[Laiev]

Threads with a map type in title always get clicked before others.
This.

At least I ignore all the thread that I don't know the author and has no type

Sorry but, I don't like the fact you need to read the entire thread to find out the type of map.

 

[bowser499]

[AoS+RPG+Domination+Arena]
Quite big don't you think?

 

[cohadar]

[AoS+RPG+Domination+Arena]
Quite big don't you think?

X = cool
X + Y = maybe
X + Y + Z = crap
X + Y + Z + W = übercrap

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

I think it would be more important to add a player count to the start. I'm open to all genres as long as they're singleplayer capable.

I certainly regret not putting (1) at the start of my Y4 thread title. People kept getting the wrong idea.

 

[cohadar]

I think it would be more important to add a player count to the start. I'm open to all genres as long as they're singleplayer capable.

Agree.

 

[Kithraya]

Heh, so you need to add Requiem to list too. ;>
I have no idea what kind of [blabla] will fit there.

Maybe you are looking at those "[blabla] Map Name", but most people don't. And it doesn't mean that thread get more or less of reviews and feedback. Most people browsing threads mostly looking at the name, so the impact of this is just pure curiosity.
I prefer not to have, any [RPG], [ORPG] before the name of the thread. It looks strange.
Alternatively, I would agree as to the [AOS], but not to the maps with... let's call it "potential".

It will be cool, if you apply to it, but don't expect this from others.

Btw: Player count sounds better.

 

[bowser499]

I suggest that:

(Player Count) [Main Genre] Map Name

 

[Marc Mamales]

I suggest that:

(Player Count) [Main Genre] Map Name

Like (12)[ORPG]ExampleMapOnly?

 

[cohadar]

It will be cool, if you apply to it, but don't expect this from others.

The whole point of this thread is to make this kind of naming mandatory.

 

[dead-man-walking]

The whole point of this thread is to make this kind of naming mandatory.

what the hell-so you want thread naming being bound by rules? What if the author him/herself is still confused about what genre his/her map is?

Stating number of players sounds like a good idea though-albeit as Vengeancekael said, using too much []s may make it look messy.

 

[cohadar]

what the hell-so you want thread naming being bound by rules? What if the author him/herself is still confused about what genre his/her map is?

(12)[I am confuzead] - my uber coola map - lekea dota jus' betta

 

[dead-man-walking]

(12)[I am confuzead] - my uber coola map - lekea dota jus' betta

Okay, that's seriously creepy-also, suggested, maybe. But mandatory? what

 

[Illidan_Hunter]

You aren't making suggestions how a thread should be named, you're merely complaining about the current ones. I hardly understood what your "invented" part wanted to say, not forgetting the fact that a "tutorial" has nothing to do in a map developing section.