Creative Generators - Update


I've got the beginnings of the Character Generator done. I added a Story Prompt Generator. This will generate some story lines, but select some words randomly. This can result in some silly stories, but many of them are quite good. I have found generators now, but I am struggling to come up with a way to incorporate the theme "2 in 1".

I thought I would talk about how my Name Generator works. It started years ago when I created a new word generator. It works like this. All words are a collection of alternating vowel and consonant combinations (for example, CVC or VCVC). If I could isolate the possible combinations, then I could randomly generate words that sounded good, even if they weren't real words. This worked fairly well, but I needed to add whether they were possible to be at the start, middle, or end of a word.

When it came time to create the Name Generator, I incorporated all these ideas, but I created the Language Analyzer to figure out the combinations and possible positions, but also weighted them by popularity. This, I think, came out very well. At least all the names are now pronounceable.  I fed the system the top 200 first names in the U. S. to get my weights, and the top 100 for surnames. This could be done for a different locale, so I made the Language Analyzer available. At the moment, it only does the English alphabet, but I would like to expand it to more popular alphabets as well when I have time.

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