Backers, help us name the replay system!

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  1. o

    o Head Honcho Official PA

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    We have this amazing technology that allows you to scrub back and forth across the game time line in real-time, basically watching the game at any point in time while it's still running. Forward or backward. Its crazy cool and deserves an appropriately crazy cool name.

    Here's what you can do:
    * Watch the game from any point in time while its playing
    * Play the game backwards or forwards in different speeds. For example, rewind at 4x (seeing everything move backwards), then playback at 2x to see what happened.
    * Open up a separate window that is viewing any time point of the game, past or present. (We can't show the future quite yet ...). This is awesome for eSports broadcasters. Or for players to simply answer "hey, how did this unit die?" ... easy, open up a window and scrub the timeline to just before it died.
    * Play back a recorded game, and scrub to any point instantly just like you're playing the game.
    * Watch a recording of a game, play it to a certain point, then take over an army (forking the time line). You and you friends could take over different armies, or you could give an army to an AI to play. This is cool because you might want to replay a historic game between the best players in the world and see if you can produce a different outcome in the last few minutes of the game.

    And probably other cool stuff we haven't even thought of yet.

    Its basically a replay and save game system all jumbled together with cool broadcasting capabilities. What would you call this system?

    [Edit] I would like for it to be somewhat sports themed sounding, and not too PA specific. Like "LivePlay" or something like that. And lets try not to wear out "Uber" as the previous naming thread suggested :)
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  2. smallcpu

    smallcpu Active Member

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    Just call it rePlay, with the play part being bolded.

    (Yes, I'm a very imaginative person. :mrgreen: )
    smallcpu, May 3, 2013
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  3. zad1011

    zad1011 New Member

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    A few ideas I thought of were: Epoch Modifier, Variance Scale, Pridian Shifter, Time-Lapse, Spectrum Device, Progression Device. Or if you want something simple... The Uber Recorder
    zad1011, May 3, 2013
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  4. Pawz

    Pawz Active Member

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    I'm already tired of uber this and that.

    How about The ReSporker

    Replay, ESport and game forker, all in one.

    And sporks are awesome.
    Pawz, May 3, 2013
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  5. KNight

    KNight Post Master General

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    So far I'm liking the idea of 'LivePlay' or 'LiveReplay'.

    Mike
    KNight, May 3, 2013
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  6. ooshr32

    ooshr32 Active Member

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    MultiCast
    ooshr32, May 3, 2013
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  7. ToastAndEggs

    ToastAndEggs Member

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    Intelligence Recorder

    Robotic Replay

    Planetary Surveillance

    Ubercam

    Eye In The Sky

    Timeshift Recorder

    Event Log

    Box Seats

    Jumbotron Camera

    Floating Report

    Blast'o Past

    Emergency Recorder

    Black Box

    Timeline Divergence
    ToastAndEggs, May 3, 2013
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  8. vebyast

    vebyast New Member

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    I think that you want at least some branding in there anyway, otherwise it'll just end up sounding corny and out of place.

    I'll put in another vote for:
    And further suggest
    • Annihilation history
    • History observation platform
    • Simulation history
    vebyast, May 3, 2013
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  9. Alcheon

    Alcheon Member

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    you could cal it anything

    Tactical Modeling
    Cyber Scan
    Enemy Predictive Modeling
    Tactical Prediction Simulation (TPS)
    etc...

    the possibilities are endless
    Alcheon, May 3, 2013
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  10. cola_colin

    cola_colin Moderator Alumni

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    Instantreport

    that list of possibilities makes me smile like a madman, btw
    cola_colin, May 3, 2013
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  11. asgo

    asgo Member

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    I would like Total Recall if it wouldn't exclude itself for obvious reasons. ;)
    asgo, May 3, 2013
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  12. movra

    movra Member

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    TimeGate (when they go bankrupt)
    movra, May 3, 2013
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  13. tigerwarrior

    tigerwarrior Active Member

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    I'm throwing Holo Records in there again... :p cause this time i think it fits... (but maybe it shuld be Battle Records? ANNIHILATION Records?)
    tigerwarrior, May 3, 2013
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  14. movra

    movra Member

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    movra, May 3, 2013
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  15. cybran89

    cybran89 New Member

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    Tactical replay.
    Nuff said
    cybran89, May 3, 2013
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  16. zenomaddog

    zenomaddog Member

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    Simulation Retrieval System
    zenomaddog, May 3, 2013
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  17. Cheeseless

    Cheeseless Member

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    RecBot

    Database timeline viewer.
    Cheeseless, May 3, 2013
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  18. v41gr

    v41gr Member

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    3-Dimensional Uber-Viewer
    v41gr, May 3, 2013
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  19. Col_Jessep

    Col_Jessep Moderator Alumni

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    Time Machine describes what the replay system does pretty well imo.

    Galactic History might work as well but 'history' suggests that it cannot be changed anymore.
    Col_Jessep, May 3, 2013
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  20. Shalkka

    Shalkka Active Member

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    Hazardous Software has a time travel rts engine with these abilities as a natural prerequisite to their game Achron working. The engine is called Resequence. So don't pick anything that gets confused with that.

    As I like to see games as a medium go forward I was saddened when they didn't have strategic zoom as I was kinda grown toa assumption that every stragegy game I would play would have it. Now that I have got used to how they handdle time I would really like for you to refer what they have done. Please go steal ideas from each other so that we might approach the ultimate rts faster.

    What they don't have is rewind (they do have jumping to arbitrary timepoints).

    And they do have showing of the future and you can issue working orders in the past in their game in multiplayer (yes it's possible and yes go look up the game). You might also look into how they visualise and summarise information from multiple times at once (namely the damage taken /given bars in the timeline).

    There are propably a lot of divergence in the appraoches so it won't be straightforward nor even possible to port features. But you don't want to miss out on work that has already happened. For example I hope that I can select units in a past view and have them selected in the present in the same swoop without having to select them seperately.

    For my name suggestion I go with Eclipse because of planetary references and time passage references in a word without multiple parts.
    Shalkka, May 3, 2013
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