WaysToPlay

Ways to Play with Gibberizer

Creating Names

• Enter 20 or more names into Gibberizer. Try:
  • First names from baby names web sites.
  • Last names from US Census Bureau listings.
  • The names of all of the US Presidents.
  • Names from Lord of the Rings.
  • Names from your family and friends. I've created lots of good names for fantasy characters by Gibberizing 300 names from my genealogy.
• Set Gibberizer to read your text as Words or Lines.
• Set familiarity to 3 or 4. A familiarity of 3 or 4 is good for playing with words or names.
• Set Gibberizer to insert a New Line after each gib.
• Maybe set Gibberizer to generate 1000 unique gibs. This forces Gibberizer to work a little harder, which can cause it to create longer names.
• Gibberize a whole bunch of times.
• Fiddle with the knobs and Gibberize some more.

Hysterical Documents

• Enter the text of a historical document into Gibberizer. Try one of these (or any other that tickles your fancy):
  • The Gettysburg Address.
  • The Bill of Rights.
  • The Gibberizer User Guide.
• Set Gibberizer to read the text as Lines or One String.
• Set familarity to 6 or higher. A familiarity of 8 is often good.
  • A familiarity of 6 or higher is good for fiddling with not just words but whole phrases.
  • A familiarity of 8 or 10 makes The Gettysburg Address sound like Honest Abe on smack.
• You may want to set Gibberizer to insert a blank line between gibs.
• Gibberize a whole bunch of times.
• Fiddle with the knobs and Gibberize some more.

Your Own Writing

• Enter a scene or section or chapter from your own writing.
• Follow the directions for Hysterical Documents (above).
• Gibberize a whole bunch of times.
• Fiddle with the knobs and Gibberize some more.