Re: story behind the name
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:15 pm
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Re: story behind the name
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 2:34 am
Re: story behind the name
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:01 am
Back when Super Mario World first came out, it was my sister and my favorite game. We got to the castle where you first meet Kamek, and we always had a hard time getting through the level because of the m4d h4x he pulled off with his turning crap into monsters and stuff and shooting crap at us. But he was always pretty cool.
In College I took a required technical writing course in my sophomore year. Each of us had to write up a business proposal to some company and tell them how they could use our company's (we made up a company for ourselves as well) product in their product (we didn't actually send out the proposals). So I pretended that my company made this RFID identification system that Honda could place throughout their cars and that would have a chip in the key such that if the key was not present you couldn't start the car. (I didn't actually have any idea at the time that Honda actually had that technology implemented already). So anyways, I needed to come up with a name for my pretend company. My favorite Nintendo character is Toad, but you can't really disguise that in a business proposal, so I couldn't go with that. I thought through other Nintendo characters I liked and thought of Kamek. I didn't want to straight out use Kamek, so I reversed it and added a sort of whatever you call it-ization on the end of it to wind up with "Kemakian" and then since it was an RFID company I made it "Kemakian Tracking." I came up with a logo for it that incorporated his hat, wand, and glasses:
So then, in my Junior year in the fall, my friends start playing this funky looking mmorpg called MapleStory. It was free and it looked pretty cool so I decided to check it out. Being a magey kind of guy I decided to make a magician. Well now of course I needed a good magician name. So naturally I thought of Kamek. So I punched in Kamek and.... poof, name taken. Well, not wanting to try to think up another name, I decided to look up what Kamek was called in the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. I discovered that he was called "Kamekku" (which I later discovered is just katakana for Kamek - カメック) and so I punched that in and.... poof, name available!
And there you have it.
In College I took a required technical writing course in my sophomore year. Each of us had to write up a business proposal to some company and tell them how they could use our company's (we made up a company for ourselves as well) product in their product (we didn't actually send out the proposals). So I pretended that my company made this RFID identification system that Honda could place throughout their cars and that would have a chip in the key such that if the key was not present you couldn't start the car. (I didn't actually have any idea at the time that Honda actually had that technology implemented already). So anyways, I needed to come up with a name for my pretend company. My favorite Nintendo character is Toad, but you can't really disguise that in a business proposal, so I couldn't go with that. I thought through other Nintendo characters I liked and thought of Kamek. I didn't want to straight out use Kamek, so I reversed it and added a sort of whatever you call it-ization on the end of it to wind up with "Kemakian" and then since it was an RFID company I made it "Kemakian Tracking." I came up with a logo for it that incorporated his hat, wand, and glasses:
So then, in my Junior year in the fall, my friends start playing this funky looking mmorpg called MapleStory. It was free and it looked pretty cool so I decided to check it out. Being a magey kind of guy I decided to make a magician. Well now of course I needed a good magician name. So naturally I thought of Kamek. So I punched in Kamek and.... poof, name taken. Well, not wanting to try to think up another name, I decided to look up what Kamek was called in the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. I discovered that he was called "Kamekku" (which I later discovered is just katakana for Kamek - カメック) and so I punched that in and.... poof, name available!
And there you have it.
Re: story behind the name
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:21 pm
kam wins the divinity grammy ;D LOL
Re: story behind the name
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:17 pm
Hidden wang in that logo.
Re: story behind the name
Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:10 am
Interesting story, Kam. 
Re: story behind the name
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:24 pm
Yeah, I noticed that when I made the post, oddly enough I never noticed it before. However, I decided not to say anything.DARKS1M wrote:Hidden wang in that logo.
Re: story behind the name
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:35 am
I didn't even see that until dark pointed it out.Kamekku wrote:Yeah, I noticed that when I made the post, oddly enough I never noticed it before. However, I decided not to say anything.DARKS1M wrote:Hidden wang in that logo.
