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Machinarium => General Machinarium topics => Topic started by: o00o on November 07, 2009, 09:22:00 am



Title: Whats the name of the main character?
Post by: o00o on November 07, 2009, 09:22:00 am
does he have a name?

and whats the name of his girlfriend?


Title: Re: Whats the name of the main character?
Post by: nicolas on November 07, 2009, 09:49:53 am
Hi :)
His name is Josef, like the inventor of the word "robot", Josef Čapek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_%C4%8Capek). ;)
About his girlfriend, I don't know.  ::)


Title: Re: Whats the name of the main character?
Post by: ABoretz on November 07, 2009, 06:55:15 pm
About his girlfriend, I don't know.  ::)

"Jane (http://thisdistractedglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/Tarzan2.jpg)" perhaps?   ;D



Title: Re: Whats the name of the main character?
Post by: XplorX on November 08, 2009, 10:10:25 am
His name is Josef, like the inventor of the word "robot", Josef Čapek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_%C4%8Capek). ;)
About his girlfriend, I don't know.  ::)

I didn't know that...fun! Josef's girlfriend reminds me of Maria, as in Metropolis.


Title: Re: Whats the name of the main character?
Post by: ABoretz on November 08, 2009, 10:05:53 pm
Josef's girlfriend reminds me of Maria, as in Metropolis.

That's a much better similarity than my joke about Tarzan's Jane!  Oh but what a sad fate Maria suffers at the hands of the mad scientist (http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/photogallery_image/files/articles/fembots_ss_metropolis.jpg)!   :'(
How about this one: Josef's girlfriend could be named Rosie (http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/experiments/rosie/rosie.jpg) (after the robot maid from the '60s animated US T.V. series The Jetsons (http://www.cybercomm.nl/~ivo/)).



Title: Re: Whats the name of the main character?
Post by: madeye on November 08, 2009, 11:26:22 pm
Josef's girlfriend reminds me of Maria, as in Metropolis.

That's a much better similarity than my joke about Tarzan's Jane!  Oh but what a sad fate Maria suffers at the hands of the mad scientist (http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/photogallery_image/files/articles/fembots_ss_metropolis.jpg)!   :'(
How about this one: Josef's girlfriend could be named Rosie (http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/experiments/rosie/rosie.jpg) (after the robot maid from the '60s animated US T.V. series The Jetsons (http://www.cybercomm.nl/~ivo/)).


No, Rosie is more like a fat auntie character while Josef's girlfriend is a hot-bot.


Title: Re: Whats the name of the main character?
Post by: XplorX on November 09, 2009, 05:15:58 pm
That's a much better similarity than my joke about Tarzan's Jane!  Oh but what a sad fate Maria suffers at the hands of the mad scientist (http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/photogallery_image/files/articles/fembots_ss_metropolis.jpg)!

But is that Maria or is it Hel? So...maybe Josef + Maria = too much allegory, even if Metropolis and Machinarium both resemble Breughel's Tower of  Babel:

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/b/bruegel/babel1.jpg

And...maybe Jane is on the right trail. How about Jana, as in Karel Zeman's Vynalez zkazy (The Fabulous World of Jules Verne) ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsud8SjNJIs


Title: Re: Whats the name of the main character?
Post by: XQuest on November 11, 2009, 06:22:01 am
I love his dancing.


Title: Re: Whats the name of the main character?
Post by: Alitoh on November 12, 2009, 01:33:01 am
I love his dancing.
Totally, I was going to make a thread requiesting that single set of sprites, haha.

I'd actually PAY for that set... I mean it. If you are out there and you can read this, I'm willing to.


Title: Re: Whats the name of the main character?
Post by: Wrenbot on March 18, 2010, 11:19:19 am
Awww it's better if he doesn't have a name :( Part of Machinarium's magic is the ambiguity - everything is what you make of it, with nothing actually written down, so his name could be anything you wanted :)

and I hope this continues ★