A quasi cure for writers’ block

Here’s a little project I worked on this weekend. This is still in “beta” form… but it’s pretty fun nonetheless. I need to find a place to host it because it is bandwidth intensive (the JavaScript is temporarily hosted on a free site). In a nutshell, I designed a name generator that uses census information to give you a random name from a pool of 1000 female names, 750 male names, and 1000 last names. Each name’s probability is weighted by its occurrence in the US (ex: SMITH will come up more than JONES). I also used that same strategy for age. There is a pool of over 500 character traits to draw upon, and the character descriptions are just for fun for the time being.

Click here to have some fun making characters.