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> ggez Off-topic but that’s a darn nice name for a game engine. Certainly ggez means “good game easy”. At least that’s how I read it. Clever because “gg” and
by codetrotter 8y ago
> ggez
Off-topic but that’s a darn nice name for a game engine.
Certainly ggez means “good game easy”. At least that’s how I read it.
Clever because “gg” and “ez” is gamer terminology used by people that play video games, with “gg” meaning a match was good (equivalent of “thanks for the match”) and putting them together you get a new meaning which is that it will be easy to create a good game.
- tenaciousDaniel 8y agoThe challenge is gathering consensus on how to pronounce it :p
- StavrosK 8y ago"ggez" is what someone says to piss you off, kind of like "haha, loser, you suck, beating you wasn't even hard". People who say this are trash, and it's a big part of the reason why I disconnect from games seconds before I lose. It is not a good name for anything.
- m0meni 8y agoYou seem disproportionately angry about this because of your personal experiences. It means you can create a "Good Game Easily"
- StavrosK 8y agoIt means that as much as "Sieg heil" means "hail to victory" and is an appropriate thing to say before a football match. You can't just take an existing phrase and pretend it doesn't mean what it means and feedback of the current meaning as "personal experiences".
- shrimp_emoji 8y agoI've never said ggez in a game before. I don't even play multiplayer games anymore. But I will, and I'll say it, just because of your posts.
- Retra 8y agoMaybe act like an adult instead.
- StavrosK 8y agoDismiss* feedback, missed a word there.
- reificator 8y agoI've not been on the receiving end of `ggez` in online games, and it wouldn't really get to me if I were. (I should note, I also have not been on the sending end. Just preempting that question...) That said, I don't think it's reasonable to pretend it's not a common, rude saying in the online gaming community. It absolutely is. And the online gaming community and game development communities are inextricably linked, like it or not. I avoided even starting to look into `ggez` for a long time because I assumed a frat bro culture around it, entirely because of the name. I don't get that feeling from using it, from reading the documentation or reading issues on Github. (though it's been awhile since I did any of those things) But because it's named that, potential contributors and users are going to skip over it for Amethyst or Piston because they don't start off alienating people just from their names.
- reificator 8y agoThe trouble is, `gg` means `good game` and `ez` means `easy`. But `ggez` means `you suck and I'm better than you`.
- taneq 8y agoStill works because your adversary in this case is the game you want to play not existing. So you can make a good game easily and taunt your defeated adversary. It works on a bunch of levels.
- codetrotter 8y agoHm, I only knew about the individual meanings of gg and ez, didn’t know they were already used in conjunction and with such negative meaning. That’s unfortunate :(
- whatshisface 8y agoI'd have to look up the error code to be sure but I think the borrow checker emits that one occasionally.
- the_duke 8y agoWell deserved upvote.
- slavik81 8y ago"gg ez" is a taunt some players use when they win. Overwatch chat infamously auto-replaces that phrase with messages like, "I'm wrestling with some insecurity issues in my life but thank you for playing with me." That being said, it is a clever name for an engine for the reasons you stated. And it's short, which is always nice.
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- rkangel 8y agoI have been playing OW on and off for ages and didn't know that. Thanks!
- andreygrehov 8y agoThis brings some memories. When I was at HuffPost, we had a tool (to provision AWS resources) named AWSHeet, which we read as "aw shiiiit".
- mruts 8y agoggez means your team sucks.
- Svenstaro 8y agoI picked the name because the parts themselves are indeed what you said but when provided in combination it's a bit of a mean thing to say to say to the other team as you proclaim your easy victory in the context of online games. Sometimes it's also used ironically after the end of a long drawn out game that quite obviously wasn't easy for either side. However, I was aware of that and decided to instead embrace it as a tongue in cheek kind of thing as I wanted to make a love2d clone and love is all about nice things so I wanted to make a game framework with all of the mean things. Hence why the logo is a salt shaker. I never thought icefox would grow ggez into what it is otherwise I might have picked a less mean theme but maybe not. :)
- codetrotter 8y agoInteresting and makes sense I think. Thanks for giving this background info on the name :)