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500 or so random names
Just hoping this little Twine snippet helps someone. It's a massive list of around 500 names (which took me a fair few hours to format from the raw list) for each gender. It's main purpose is for if you want characters with dynamic names or something in your story/game. At the moment it's only first names, but I'm working on a surname list.
In the example I use a
Hope this helps someone.
In the example I use a
<<print>> statement, although it shouldn't be a problem popping it into a variable.Hope this helps someone.
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Examples of the first name can be found here, and the full version is here.
I've attached a modified version- I found that names change a lot over the years, so I added variables for babies names, teens, 25, 45 and 75 year olds (male and female) based on common names for those periods (taken off Western Australia's birth registry- so culturally fairly anglo- Australian). I took out some baby names that were also on the teen (15 year old) names list, but haven't stopped other double ups- so you could, feasibly, randomly generate 15 and 25 year olds with the same name- but I'm willing to take that chance.
If anyone wants other nationalities, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_given_names has a pretty comprehensive list.
The version you posted seemed to throw up errors with the variables for the name because they had numbers at the start of some of them ($75boy for instance). I've made an alternate version and just replaced the numbers with the first letter for each number (e.g $sfboy).
You're doing a great job at fixing stuff I prematurely upload. I will check (and double check) before posting again!