This is a style guide for creating location names for "soulslike" games to hook up to Archipelago, based on the conventions arrived at for naming locations in Dark Souls 3, the first such game to be added to Archipelago. The names of all the DS3 locations can be found on the locations page, as can the guide for understanding them.
In general, location names should have three parts:
- The region, an acronym of four or fewer letters indicating the general area the item is found. Since these games generally give explicit names to regions, it should follow those naming conventions. One example in DS3 is "HWL", for "High Wall of Lothric". Generally, each region should only have one acronym even if it changes over time or multiple parts open up ove