Hey everybody,
OK, voting on the website name is over. I received a lot of great suggestions. But, in the end I had to choose only one. To make the choice unbiased, fair and as pseudo-random as possible, I put each of the blog names on little slips of paper, said some magic words over the wadded papers, and then through them over my shoulder, down the stairs to my dog. He ate all the losing entries. But, he spared this one winning name for our Team Blog site: "xnagamers.blogspot.com" from Mr. Cody Mini. [CROWD APPLAUDS LOUDLY!]
The runner-ups were "threeofspades.blogspot.com" by Mr. Oliver Fuxel, and “makegamez.blogspot.com" by Mr. Troy Hildebrand! [CROWD APPLAUDS POLITELY]. Oliver, “threeofspades” was an excellent suggestion, except that some dirty blog-name squatter already snagged that one :-0
By the way, my personal favorite was "WrathOfTheGreatSlar.blogspot.com" (a nod to Rick Moranis in the movie Ghostbusters). But since my dog and I were on the voting committee, I excluded my vote to minimize the appearance of conflict of interest.
I'll send out invites to you all to join the Team Blog tonight! As soon as you join, feel free to post a hello message!
Russ DeWitt
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From: Russ DeWitt [mailto:dewitt.russ@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 6:31 PM
To: 'Russ DeWitt'; Cody Snyder; Cody Snyder; Doug Z.; Jonathan Paolozzi; Mr. MUP jr.; Naeem; Oliver; Oliver; Thomas Mulkey; Troy Hildebrand
Subject: Help me pick a name for the 'Team Blog' web site for our 3D Games class
Hi All,
I’m excited about our class project. As we discussed, we plan to make a network game, 3rd person shooter, low-res but customizable character figures for each of us, sort of a RPG with RPGs (roll playing game with rocket propelled grenades)
I plan to setup the ‘Team Blog’ site tonight so that we can all share our game ideas, software code and game content artwork for our game project. I’ll make the website “private” so that only we can view and post to the site. I attached everyone’s email address (Microsoft outlook format). Let me know if your information looks correct.
I don’t remember the website names that everyone came up with in our class yesterday. Can anyone remind me? To see if a URL name is free for us to use, you can just type in the name and a blotspot page will tell you if it’s available. I checked and found these names are free for us to use:
http://mygamerulez.blogspot.com/
http://atomicgamez.blogspot.com/
http://duluthgamerz.blogspot.com/
http://xnagamerz.blogspot.com/
http://xnagamers.blogspot.com/
http://9gamerz.blogspot.com/
http://9gamers.blogspot.com/
http://10gamers.blogspot.com/
http://gamedevelper.blogspot.com/
http://gamedevelperz.blogspot.com/
http://gameprogrammerz.blogspot.com/
http://prettygoodsw.blogspot.com/
http://prettygoodgamez.blogspot.com/
http://makemeagame.blogspot.com/
http://makegamez.blogspot.com/
http://mynetworkgame.blogspot.com/
http://mynetgame.blogspot.com/
http://woweegames.blogspot.com/ <===one of my favorites…http://bazookagames.blogspot.com/
http://funkiegames.blogspot.com/ <===one of my favorites…http://funkiegamers.blogspot.com/
http://bastablon.blogspot.com/ (for “Hitchhiker” fans :-)… sorry, these are already taken:
Nope… http://milliways.blogspot.com/ (already taken)
Nope… http://beeblebrox.blogspot.com/ (already taken)
Nope… http://zaphod.blogspot.com/ (already taken)
But these are available…
http://ifragu.blogspot.com/
http://igotfragged.blogspot.com/
http://pleezdontfragme.blogspot.com/
http://ifraggedmyself.blogspot.com/
http://mutantpiratezombies.blogspot.com/
http://mutantpiratezombiesfromouterspace.blogspot.com/
http://jackintheboxwithagun.blogspot.com/
http://jackintheboxwithabazooka.blogspot.com/
http://bazookaz.blogspot.com/
OK, so “jackintheboxwithabazooka” is probably too long to type in. We probably want something a little shorter than that. Feel free to email me your web site name ideas. Russ DeWitt
Bad Kitty. No!
DeWitt.Russ@gmail.com
678-575-2722 (Cell)
Photo-Realistic 3D Animation and Video Effects
Visit these web sites for the 3D animation class:
http://filmfx.blogspot.com
http://3drobots.blogspot.com
