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Does anyone know a good, realistic weapon name generator?
One that generates a name like (just an example, idk if it is a real gun): K1411 or I-803 or something like that. A lot of them out there just generate one that is just a combination of weapon-related words or something.
This is for a game, and I don't need copyright issues on me. It's going to be a mobile game, for phones.
Thanks.
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I'm sure using real gun names won't be a problem, just make sure they are all something everyone knows.
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Don't know AFAIK, will look out for one.
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I think things like ACOG and CCO are actually copyrighted, using standard weapon names should be perfectly fine I'm guessing.
http://browser.six-projects.net/cfg_weapons/classlist
Scroll down past the clothing and misc items, you'll find a whole load of weapon names. If you have any doubts about them just replace the actual name like "Katiba ACO" with K-ACO.
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Most weapon names are used as trademarks, but M16, M416 are so common that I doubt you'll run into any issues. However big games like Battlefield pay top dollar to use those names, especially if they add H&K (Heckler & Koch the manafacturer) infront of it.
As for your question, what makes a realistic weapon name? Given you don't want to use real names, how can you go wrong?
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Do it like other games that don't want to use real names and get in trouble.
For example APB got a rocketlauncher called OSMAW instead of SMAW <- Pretty obvious actually, but well.
Just change them a little.
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Okay, thanks people. It's just that I'm not good at coming up with names, but I'll try.
