WordBuilder 0.9: Release often, release early

[Alfar]

And here's an example of what towngen.wordo generates:

pisoshi
  Occupation: shochu-dealer
  FirstName: kijiteho
kito
  Occupation: rice-farmer
  FirstName: zowosu
zachihawe
  Occupation: sake-dealer
  FirstName: ohi
hihi
  Occupation: sake-dealer
  FirstName: hehechihi
mofuji
  Occupation: furrier
  FirstName: awatsu

The file was inspired by this discussion: http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=6872

I set up rules to make occupations from sets of tokens (occupations and occupations-rare) and weighted it to make rare occupations, well, rarer. The names I made Japanese-ish by setting up token sets to build something that resembles the hiragana set of sounds. I'm pretty sure I'm not hitting all of it, especially the ya/yo/yu combinations and ji u -> ju rules.

I'm thinking I can add (some of) those using the translate command.

Edit: Bummer, I didn't think about paging, so most people are probably going to miss the previous two posts. Yes, serves me right for triple-posting, I guess. Please, take a look at previous page.

[Alfar]

Continuing my monologue, here's a quick example of something that, when the token lists are expanded, could be useful. Also, I just had an idea to allow us to use external files for token lists.

tokens prefixes Alecs Berts Detchers
tokens mountains peak heights fell
tokens rivers stream flow rapids

startingrule mountains 100
startingrule rivers 100

rule mountains {
token prefixes
token mountains
}

rule rivers {
token prefixes
token rivers
}

With this, youget 100 mountain names followed by 100 river names.

I'll have some time on my hands tonight to fix things. I hope to get something new out tonight, with bug fixes and a couple of features.