Conspiracy Behind The Name

VVVVVV

Game » consists of 6 releases. First released on Jan 10, 2010

VVVVVV, pronounced "the letter V six times", is an indie 2D puzzle platformer developed by Terry Cavanagh, in which players, rather than jumping, invert their own gravity to cover gaps and avoid obstacles.

Conspiracy Behind The Name

#1 Posted by valrog (3670 posts) - 1 year, 9 months ago

I just got a thought of what could this mysterious name represent. It's a Latin phrase "Vi veri universum vivus vici", meaning "By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe".

You may say that there is a U in there so that cannot be it, but back in those times they didn't have a distinct letter for "u" and for "v", so "u" was written as "v". Even after they started to separate the two, "u" would often be capitalized as "V". So with that in mind, this phrase is now written like this:

"Vi veri veniversum vivus vici"

Well, that's my crazy theory, anyway. Thoughts?

#2 Posted by Tru3_Blu3 (2981 posts) - 1 year, 9 months ago

These are indie dudes who think of shit on a quick instant. I doubt they'd think of something THAT deep for such a low-budget game.

#3 Posted by dbz1995 (4784 posts) - 1 year, 9 months ago

There are five words there, so five Vs, but if you just count all the Vs you get 6, disregarding the universum V.

Or it is to do with the Illuminati.

#4 Edited by valrog (3670 posts) - 1 year, 9 months ago

@dbz1995: I can't believe I didn't notice that. I suppose the effort that went into this thread was in Vain.

#5 Posted by Cheesebob (1029 posts) - 1 year, 9 months ago

But what if...they are all actually Ws?

#6 Posted by ShaggE (4463 posts) - 1 year, 9 months ago

They look like spikes. The game has spikes. I doubt it goes any deeper than that.

Would be nifty if it did, though.

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#7 Edited by Swoxx (2904 posts) - 1 year, 9 months ago

@Cheesebob said:

But what if...they are all actually Ws?

Then it's simply the world wide web

Besides the quick look covered the fact that the V's may represent the first name of each crewmember of the ship, which all start with V, and there are 6 crew members

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#8 Posted by Scrawnto (1962 posts) - 1 year, 9 months ago

@ShaggE: That's part of it. The other part is that the crew is made of six people, and each one has a name starting with v: Verdigris, Vermilion, Victoria, Violet, Viridian, and Vitellary.

#9 Posted by 49th (1802 posts) - 1 year, 9 months ago

Because they look like up and down arrows, and you primarily flip upside-down in the game. It is so obvious.

#10 Posted by alternate (2383 posts) - 1 year, 9 months ago

either that or someone likes drawing vaginas in ASCii

#11 Edited by JackSukeru (5153 posts) - 1 year, 9 months ago

@valrog: Cheer up! One of the words has two "V"'s in it.

Edit: Double checking, two of them actually has that, doh!

#12 Posted by Azteck (7330 posts) - 1 year, 9 months ago

Doesn't the amount of V's stem from the amount of crew members you save?

#13 Posted by Scrawnto (1962 posts) - 1 year, 9 months ago

@Azteck: Yep. Your name starts with V (Veridian), and you save five other V named crew members. I listed them in my post above.

#14 Edited by JeffGoldblum (3597 posts) - 1 year, 9 months ago

@Tru3_Blu3 said:

These are indie dudes who think of shit on a quick instant. I doubt they'd think of something THAT deep for such a low-budget game.

Just because a game is low budget doesn't mean that it was easy to make or a throw away project for the developer. Playing VVVVVV, it becomes very clear that quite a bit of thought and work went into that game. Jonathan Blow is an indie developer would you say he puts no thought into his projects?