Ironwolf

The video game company I helped to found around 1990 was called The Dreamers Guild, a name my brother Michael and I came up with. The time I was there (1990–1995) was an amazing experience; the environment was fun and challenging, and the quality of the people who worked there was usually first-rate.

The other day I was discussing anagrams with a colleague, and remembered that for a time we had set scrabble tiles out in the office with the letters “THE DREAMERS GUILD” on them, and enjoyed watching people come up with anagrams, which we recorded on a handy pad of paper. Michael even used them in a wonderful animated credits box of the Mac version of an adventure game we did, Inherit the Earth. As the credits rolled over a spinning globe, the anagram letters would shatter apart and bounce energetically around the window, slowly find their way into one of the anagrams, and then shatter again to reform as the company name. It was mesmerizing.

Joe Pearce, one of my partners at The Dreamers Guild, is now keeper of Inherit the Earth (available for Mac, Windows, and Linux,) and I recently asked him for the list of anagrams from the old Mac version source code. For your amusement, and the enlightenment of generations to come, we now present them here:

• THE DREAMERS GUILD
• THE GAMERS DID RULE
• LURID THREE D GAMES
• HER STALE DRIED GUM
• DISREGARD THE MULE
• RUDE HERMITS GLADE
• MELTED RADISH URGE
• DEER RIGHTS MAULED
• GRIME RULED THE ADS
• THIS MULE DEGRADER
• DIG ETHEREAL DRUMS
• THIS REGARDED MULE
• MET HIS DRUG DEALER
• ED GETS LURID HAREM
• GREED HAS LURED TIM
• TRADERS DELUGE HIM
• I DREAD LUTHERS GEM
• THE DRUG DREAMS LIE
• DIG HERE MAD RESULT
• AS TIGER HURDLED ME
• DRUG DEAL EH MISTER
• ETHEREAL MUD GRIDS
• GRIM DEATH RULES ED
• HER MUDDLE IS GREAT
• RULE DREAMED SIGHT
• TIME HER DRUG DEALS
• HEIL MURDERED STAG
• THIS RED EAGLE DRUM
• MERREL HAD GUEST ID
• GIRD ME THUS LEADER
• ELMER DID HATE RUGS
• I DREAM THE RED SLUG
• LURID HAREM GETS ED
• SAD TIGER HURLED ME
• SHRUG A MIDDLE TREE
• THE DREAM DRUGS LIE
• THIS RUDE GM LEADER
• SURGE AT HER MIDDLE
• MUSE A RED RED LIGHT
• SHE LURED DIRT MAGE

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