Since your message popped up right at the top I'm going to reply to it, hopefully summarizing my view on this and addressing the lively discussion about the game's name.
There is a special meaning for the game. The short backstory is included on the game's website. Here's the gist: in the game's lore Violet and Crimson are angel siblings. Violet is the angel of creation, Crimson the angel of destruction. Due to unforeseen circumstances both angels shatter to dust. This dust dwindles towards the planet where the game takes place. Subsequently parts of the game world and its inhabitants have been permanently infused with magical energy. Energy derived from the dust of angels. Angeldust.
"Angeldust" is beautifully fitting and it's a beautiful name in my opinion. I wouldn't want it any other way. There's an entire design language behind the lore, the names and composition of the game world. To a casual observer this might not be apparent or make sense. But everything ties together perfectly.
I've seen discussion and jokes about the name before when reaching a larger audience. It's great that people have an opinion on the name and some of it's (in my view) lesser known historical usages. As far as I'm concerned Angeldust is a pretty cool video game product with unique properties. In no way, shape or form do I want to endorse or conjure connection to other, past uses of "Angeldust". I hope you can appreciate the context, connection and product that "Angeldust" refers to for me.
And then I get there's a bit of confirmation-bias and pattern-matching going on with my name. I wouldn't have expected otherwise from the smart hackers here. I have no good argument against this. I wasn't aware that I share my name with a (for you all, well known?) dude from the past. Given finite first and last names, collisions are bound to happen. Maybe we should start using MD5- or SHA-hashes as names to prevent this in the future.
i like the name and don't associate games with drugs, so for me personally the name, even though used for some drug as a nickname (official name of the drug is obviously not angeldust) doesn't make that click. I think personally plenty of people will not relate it, and for most who do it might just be a bit of a giggle / afterthought if they do.
If it's really related to the in-game content and lore i'm sure players will figure that out and create a new more positive association to the word.
For example, a male donkey is called a "Jack", yet people still name their kids Jack, not relating that to a male donkey... (maybe a little more benign example.)
Personally i wouldn't worry about it too much! it's not like the game is called CrystalMeth or something....
Well, traditionally, Jack was a nickname for John. So they likely named their kids John. Though I guess more often these days people give their children a nickname as their fully-qualified given name.
There is a special meaning for the game. The short backstory is included on the game's website. Here's the gist: in the game's lore Violet and Crimson are angel siblings. Violet is the angel of creation, Crimson the angel of destruction. Due to unforeseen circumstances both angels shatter to dust. This dust dwindles towards the planet where the game takes place. Subsequently parts of the game world and its inhabitants have been permanently infused with magical energy. Energy derived from the dust of angels. Angeldust.
"Angeldust" is beautifully fitting and it's a beautiful name in my opinion. I wouldn't want it any other way. There's an entire design language behind the lore, the names and composition of the game world. To a casual observer this might not be apparent or make sense. But everything ties together perfectly.
I've seen discussion and jokes about the name before when reaching a larger audience. It's great that people have an opinion on the name and some of it's (in my view) lesser known historical usages. As far as I'm concerned Angeldust is a pretty cool video game product with unique properties. In no way, shape or form do I want to endorse or conjure connection to other, past uses of "Angeldust". I hope you can appreciate the context, connection and product that "Angeldust" refers to for me.
And then I get there's a bit of confirmation-bias and pattern-matching going on with my name. I wouldn't have expected otherwise from the smart hackers here. I have no good argument against this. I wasn't aware that I share my name with a (for you all, well known?) dude from the past. Given finite first and last names, collisions are bound to happen. Maybe we should start using MD5- or SHA-hashes as names to prevent this in the future.