I’m not going to argue semantics on a forum.
Our design flow looks a little like:
- We need a melee weapon.
- Slashing, swiping combat in 1st person is hard to nail, how about a deliberate stabbing attack?
- That sounds cool, how about a stabbing Lance thing?
- That sounds cool.
- Artists, make us something that behaves like a Lance, with a deliberate stabbing motion. It is NOT a lance, it’s something new!
- Artists make something cool and new.
- When we finalise we decide: does this make sense to be called a Lance, or should we give it a more thematically interesting name (eg: Slingbow)
- Rename item (sometimes)
- Done!
We’re not at the end of the flow yet, so we may yet rename it.