It's going to be pretty impossible to get *rid* of Glitch/Glitchen from the game itself, but it doesn't mean we can't have some new fun vocabulary to play with otherwise!
I think the Lev/Leven sounds too much from the real world as Lev is a common Jewish name with all the religious baggage that comes with it.
Here's my idea...Madge (nicely ignoring gender completely) and Madgen
What do you think of "Greetings, tiny Madge, and welcome to Ur. Ancient misty years ago, Eleven Giants dreamed up the race of Madgen out of their imagination. Now you and your fellow Madgen are on a quest to rebuild the world..."
Alas. A Glitchen by any other name is still but a Glitchen. I fear the name will never die no matter what we call ourselves going forward. It will become an icon of the language much like Coke has become the term for carbonated soft drink (at least in Texas. "Hey ya wanna coke?" " Yeah!" " What kind?" "Dr Pepper")
Elevensies is kinda long, but it also feels very fitting for the genre. Leven works well, also. Leventy? Sounds like eleven, and levity, and eleventy...
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Is it maybe a little bit of elitism that I was "there" in Old Ur... Maybe.
Here's my idea...Madge (nicely ignoring gender completely) and Madgen
What do you think of "Greetings, tiny Madge, and welcome to Ur. Ancient misty years ago, Eleven Giants dreamed up the race of Madgen out of their imagination. Now you and your fellow Madgen are on a quest to rebuild the world..."
Madgen of course being silly for imagination...
It will become an icon of the language much like Coke has become the term for carbonated soft drink (at least in Texas. "Hey ya wanna coke?"
" Yeah!"
" What kind?"
"Dr Pepper")
(And I will probably always think of the inhabitants of Ur as Glitchen, whatever the game is called. I do like elevenses, though.)
Lev not so much.
Elevensie....hmmm...to many syllables
still a Glitchen
ser wampus
And so nice to see an old dev here already!! ~~ to kevbob~~
i prefer to leave the term eleven or anything to do with it to the giants, whom we are not.
i like Urthling.
Levensies.
Or Levenites?
Either way, I like the variations on "Lev/Leven/Levensies"
It's hard to beat the original Glitch/Glitchen, but I think this might just be as wonderful.
Ha ha, it may be weird, but I think I rather like it!