Name The Enemy!

The ‘story’ for Coconut Dodge (about pirates stashing treasure in the trees) was conceived when faced with the challenge of writing the store descriptions for PlayStation Store. It took 5 minutes…

We’ve spent a lot longer thinking up the story for our untitled Space Shooter (the name of which is soon to be revealed we promise!), but we haven’t thought of everything.

Now we are faced with the challenge of naming the alien race that has descended on our stranded space fleets, and thought why not ask our lovely Twitter followers?

They fly in attractive (but terrifying of course) formations, shoot at you quite a bit, and have a tendency to swarm :p

A sample of enemies from our Space Shooter game due for release in March!

If someone comes up with a great alien race name that HASN’T BEEN USED BEFORE, and we use it in the game, they’ll bag a free copy of our game when it is released, plus any other goodies we can find at FuturLab HQ 😉

Please write your suggestions in the comments!

Thanks all!
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41 Comments

  • mat redvers
    Posted December 1, 2011 at 3:49 pm 0Likes

    The Zettachron.

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  • James @ FuturLab
    Posted December 1, 2011 at 3:53 pm 0Likes

    Cheers Mat, we like that 🙂

    Reply
  • Tuffcub
    Posted December 1, 2011 at 3:55 pm 0Likes

    The Kinky Spanglemonkeys Of Distant Smoothothia

    Reply
  • mat redvers
    Posted December 1, 2011 at 3:58 pm 0Likes

    there was a company called zetachron inc. who supposedly created the first 1bit computer in 1977.. thats about the closest match i found using google

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  • David
    Posted December 1, 2011 at 4:09 pm 0Likes

    Got a few:

    Syntax
    IEC
    Chernobug
    Satyr
    Nuxbee
    Hasher

    Might think of a few more at the pub tomorrow :-p

    Reply
  • William Gardner
    Posted December 1, 2011 at 4:10 pm 0Likes

    The Xaminat

    Reply
  • Tuffcub
    Posted December 1, 2011 at 4:13 pm 0Likes

    ‘The Furl Tabu’ (anag of Futurlab, obv)

    Reply
  • OriginalJonty
    Posted December 1, 2011 at 4:28 pm 0Likes

    The Crush
    The Multitude
    The Jeer

    Reply
  • Arran
    Posted December 1, 2011 at 7:37 pm 0Likes

    Death struggle
    Poison grip
    The ancients
    Microsoft
    Blood slaves
    Blood craft
    The master control

    Reply
  • Heinrich
    Posted December 2, 2011 at 10:17 am 0Likes

    The Vaxtron
    The Cerebrus
    The Zoraxis

    🙂

    Reply
  • Mitun
    Posted December 2, 2011 at 12:58 pm 0Likes

    The Evil

    Reply
  • Simplebob
    Posted December 2, 2011 at 1:04 pm 0Likes

    MechaMoths

    Reply
  • Russel
    Posted December 2, 2011 at 2:48 pm 0Likes

    The race known as “The Ø”

    Reply
  • Kennykazey
    Posted December 2, 2011 at 2:48 pm 0Likes

    The Hostalites
    The Shmupers
    The Galax

    Reply
  • phil
    Posted December 2, 2011 at 8:04 pm 0Likes

    Jeff
    Steve
    Nigel
    Lawrence
    Simon
    Dave

    And

    Wayne

    Are

    Nevadronez 😐

    Wtf! 🙂

    Reply
  • James @ FuturLab
    Posted December 2, 2011 at 8:06 pm 0Likes

    LOL!

    Reply
  • Marco Martins
    Posted December 3, 2011 at 2:05 am 0Likes

    Arophes
    Turbonion
    Ognak
    OviumX
    Rexagor
    Oditam
    MaxiQuoB
    Anmaru <- my selection for now
    Vatulions

    Reply
  • James @ FuturLab
    Posted December 3, 2011 at 9:42 am 0Likes

    Thanks everyone, there’s some good ones here too: http://www.pspminis.com/forums/topic/futurlab-space-shooter-name-the-enemy?replies=11

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  • Gilbert
    Posted December 3, 2011 at 2:16 pm 0Likes

    morphflies
    bugpods
    kwitis

    Reply
  • mr sen
    Posted December 3, 2011 at 4:30 pm 0Likes

    the drexciyan

    Reply
  • Ofaliss
    Posted December 3, 2011 at 6:21 pm 0Likes

    Insedians, from the planet Insedia.

    Reply
  • Don_Patch
    Posted December 3, 2011 at 6:39 pm 0Likes

    The Zorganeks from zorganicon ^^

    Reply
  • MONTAIGNE
    Posted December 3, 2011 at 7:05 pm 0Likes

    Musca
    Techmusca
    mascu
    hybscuz
    bzibzi
    zusca

    Reply
  • Guillius
    Posted December 3, 2011 at 7:37 pm 0Likes

    The Boucs Hackers

    Reply
  • Aristides
    Posted December 3, 2011 at 10:28 pm 0Likes

    How about …

    Nebroids

    That sounds just about right 🙂 The name just popped into my head when I saw the pictures. Though it has a certain etymological connection with an ancient god. 😛

    Reply
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  • nick allen
    Posted December 4, 2011 at 12:01 am 0Likes

    The Infinity.

    Reply
  • Chad
    Posted December 4, 2011 at 12:49 am 0Likes

    The futari
    Drankols

    Reply
  • Chad
    Posted December 4, 2011 at 12:53 am 0Likes

    graxtians
    moldrians
    The flurg

    Reply
  • manuel
    Posted December 4, 2011 at 3:26 am 0Likes

    Ooglots

    Reply
  • Gavin
    Posted December 4, 2011 at 6:51 am 0Likes

    Wice

    Reply
  • Jared
    Posted December 4, 2011 at 1:48 pm 0Likes

    The Legionairus

    Reply
  • darkjedi1024
    Posted December 4, 2011 at 1:50 pm 0Likes

    The Xenowingus
    The ZenoChrystalis

    Reply
  • aviv gedosher
    Posted December 4, 2011 at 6:50 pm 0Likes

    the zorps

    Reply
  • Jeffrey Travis
    Posted December 4, 2011 at 8:33 pm 0Likes

    Macrophages
    Plorentians
    Harbingers
    Necrosis
    Chucknorissians =]
    tracers
    Trackers
    The defoulers
    Vindicative
    Brethren
    Drones
    Wrought
    Decimators
    Zetrobats
    Plotherins

    Reply
  • john
    Posted December 5, 2011 at 10:16 am 0Likes

    Xbots

    Reply
  • clayman00
    Posted December 5, 2011 at 11:04 am 0Likes

    The O-Voïds

    The Flow

    The DraKoïds

    The W-Ords

    Reply
  • thumbbandit
    Posted December 5, 2011 at 4:44 pm 0Likes

    How about calling them Colin.
    … ooohhh!… COOOLLLIIINNNN!!!
    Man, that’s scary. 😉

    Reply
  • thumbbandit
    Posted December 5, 2011 at 4:49 pm 0Likes

    Damn Gravatar didn’t show up. 🙁

    Reply
  • Spider
    Posted January 13, 2012 at 5:08 am 0Likes

    Zaneians.

    Reply
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