masschamber said:
mdk itself doesn't stand for anything |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDK_(video_game)
Murder, Death, Kill:
It is revealed in the "Making of MDK" booklet that came with the "Limited Edition" of the game that the term was actually the game's codename; when Shiny came around to coming up with a name for the game, they chose to stick with the codename.
In the installation screen for MDK2, various meanings are shown scrolling down as a backdrop to Kurt diving through or to an unknown destination with "Murder, Death, Kill" highlighted.
In an interview with David Perry in NowGamer, Perry revealed that the original meaning of "MDK" from the company's initial promo video was in fact "Murder Death Kill". However, because the toy company that was supposed to make toys based on the game did not like to have those words printed on the toys, the words were removed and replaced with only "MDK". At the time of the game's release, Perry's official line on the game's title was that it stood for the first initials of game's characters Max, Dr. Hawkins, and Kurt.
I can imagine it was they were in a meeting kicking around ideas, and someone probably threw out "Murder, Death, Kill" as a joke, and they went with it. Examples of that is IAGO, where someone jokingly threw out International Abstract Games Organization, "IAGO" as the name for an organization to promote abstract strategy games (only plotting and scheming people apply, alluding to the nemesis of the character Othello), and it stuck.
