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You can check the founder's LinkedIn and Facebook profiles, or email through the contact page. NickGen is run by one developer in Ho Chi Minh City, not an anonymous network.

Hoàng Dương Dũng — NickGen Founder & Developer

Q: Are these real fonts for Blood Strike?

No. They are Unicode characters (Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols, small caps and decorative glyphs). The game renders them with its own system font, which is why some display perfectly and others show blank boxes.

Q: Do you actually test the names in Blood Strike?

Yes. The founder plays Blood Strike and pastes candidate names into the real name field before recommending a style.

Q: Why does my bold name turn back into normal letters?

Because bold letters are Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols and NFKC normalisation maps every one of them back to a plain ASCII letter: U+1D5D4 becomes a simple A. Any app or game that normalises input will undo the styling. Small capitals such as U+1D00 have no such mapping, so they survive.

I’m Hoàng Dương Dũng (Dung Hoang) — a web developer and gamer from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and the founder of NickGen, the independent Blood Strike name generator. I write the code, play the game, and test names in the Blood Strike name field myself, so the tool reflects what actually works — not guesswork. Updated July 23, 2026.

Who I am

Portrait of Hoàng Dương Dũng, NickGen founder

My name is Hoàng Dương Dũng — most people online just call me Dung Hoang. I’m a front-end developer based in Ho Chi Minh City, and I’ve been a gamer since I was a kid, starting with Counter-Strike 1.6 and never really stopping. NickGen is my personal project: a fast, honest tool for building stylish Blood Strike names and copying special characters that actually paste into the game.

I’m a real person, not a brand mascot. You can verify me on Facebook or my public LinkedIn profile. Everything on this site is built and maintained by me — if a symbol on NickGen doesn’t work in-game, that’s on me to fix, and I want to hear about it.

Why I built NickGen

I built NickGen because most “name generator” sites are dishonest about one thing: they promise fonts. There are no custom fonts inside a mobile game’s name field. What you’re really copying are Unicode characters — mathematical alphanumeric symbols, small caps, and decorative glyphs that the game renders with its own system font. Some of them display perfectly in Blood Strike; some show up as blank boxes; some get rejected by the name filter entirely.

As a Blood Strike player, I was tired of copying a “cool” name from a random site only to have the game strip it or turn it into tofu boxes. So I made a tool that separates what works from what doesn’t, and I keep it honest. That’s the whole point of NickGen: a stylish name you can trust before you burn a rename card.

How I test Blood Strike names in-game

Every style NickGen suggests, I paste into the real Blood Strike name field before I trust it. Here’s what my testing consistently shows (verified July 2026):

Bold, small-caps and gothic letters usually work. These are standard Unicode letters (like 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄 or ꜱɴɪᴘᴇʀ), so the game renders them cleanly.
Heavy bracket combos are hit-or-miss. Names wrapped in rare decorative symbols (꧁★꧂ and similar) look great on a phone keyboard but are often rejected or blanked by the name filter.
Spaces need a trick. A normal space is trimmed, so for a spaced or blank-looking name I use a no-break space (U+00A0). The old Hangul filler (U+3164) that people still recommend has been blocked in many games, so I avoid relying on it.

If you want the raw building blocks, my Blood Strike special characters page lists the symbols I’ve tested, grouped by how reliably they display. The generator on the NickGen homepage puts the reliable styles first, and if you just want ideas rather than raw glyphs, I keep a hand-picked set of cool, funny and tryhard Blood Strike names ready to copy.

The Unicode facts behind every style I ship

Before a style reaches the generator I look up its official Unicode name, its general category, and what NFKC normalisation does to it — three properties that predict survival in a game name field far better than guesswork. Here is the reference table I actually work from, checked against the Unicode Character Database in July 2026.

Character	Code point	Official Unicode name	Category	After NFKC normalisation
`𝗔`	U+1D5D4	MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD CAPITAL A	Lu — uppercase letter	`A` — the styling is stripped
`ᴀ`	U+1D00	LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL A	Ll — lowercase letter	`ᴀ` — unchanged
	U+00A0	NO-BREAK SPACE	Zs — space separator	an ordinary space
`ㅤ`	U+3164	HANGUL FILLER	Lo — other letter	U+1160 — still not a space
`⠀`	U+2800	BRAILLE PATTERN BLANK	So — other symbol	unchanged

Properties I verify for every character NickGen offers. Source: Unicode Character Database, checked July 2026.

The first two rows explain the single most common complaint I get: “my bold name turned back into normal letters.” Bold styling lives in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, and NFKC — the normalisation form many apps and games run on user input — maps every one of those characters back to a plain ASCII letter. Small capitals sit in a different block and carry no such mapping, so they come through untouched. That is why NickGen ranks small caps above bold when a name has to survive somewhere strict.

The last three rows are the whole story behind blank and spaced names. A no-break space is still a space to Unicode (category Zs), so anything that trims whitespace will trim it. HANGUL FILLER is categorised as a letter (Lo) and BRAILLE PATTERN BLANK as a symbol (So) — neither is whitespace at all, which is exactly why they once slipped past filters that refuse an empty name, and equally why studios now blacklist those specific code points by hand rather than by category. That is also why I no longer lean on U+3164: the fix has to be per-character, so it dates fast. I walk through what currently works in my guide to putting a space in your Blood Strike name.

You don’t have to take my word for any of it: every code point above is public and you can look it up yourself in the official Unicode charts. That is the standard I hold NickGen to — claims you can check, not claims you have to trust.

My background as a developer

I studied programming at Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), and I’ve spent 5+ years building web interfaces professionally. Two roles shaped how I build NickGen:

UI Developer at MISA (2019–2021) — front-end work on business software used at scale, where speed and clarity mattered more than flash.
Gaming Platform Developer at YGame (2021–2024) — working on user-facing features for a large Vietnamese gaming platform, where I saw first-hand how much players care about their in-game name and how badly most nickname tools served them.

That experience is why NickGen runs entirely in your browser, loads fast, and is built mobile-first — the way most people actually pick a game name is on a phone, one-handed, in a lobby.

Independence, honesty & privacy

A few commitments I hold myself to, because trust is the only thing a small tool has:

Independent. NickGen is a fan-made tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by NetEase or Blood Strike. I don’t use their logos or artwork as my own brand, and I never claim official status.
Honest. Stylish names are Unicode characters, not fonts, and they may not display in every game or app. I say that plainly instead of over-promising.
Private. The generator processes everything in your browser. I don’t store the names you type, and there’s no account or sign-up.
Free. No paywall, no premium tier. If a feature exists, everyone gets it.

You can read more about the project on the About NickGen page, or reach me through the contact page — I read every message myself.

Frequently asked questions

Who is the NickGen founder?

The NickGen founder is Hoàng Dương Dũng (Dung Hoang), a front-end developer in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He built the Blood Strike name generator on his own, writes every line of its code, and tests each name style in the game before it ships. NickGen has no company behind it and no team — just one developer who plays the game.

Is NickGen affiliated with Blood Strike or NetEase?

No. NickGen is an independent, fan-made tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by NetEase or Blood Strike. I built it as a player, for players.

Are these real fonts for Blood Strike?

No — and anyone telling you otherwise is guessing. They’re Unicode characters (Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols, small caps, and decorative glyphs). The game renders them with its own system font, which is why some display perfectly and others show blank boxes.

Do you actually test the names in Blood Strike?

Yes. I play Blood Strike and paste candidate names into the real name field before recommending a style. That’s the difference between NickGen and a site that just dumps every symbol it can find.

Why does my bold name turn back into normal letters?

Because bold letters are Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols, and NFKC normalisation maps every one of them back to a plain ASCII letter — 𝗔 (U+1D5D4) becomes a simple A. Any app or game that normalises what you type will undo the styling. Small capitals such as ᴀ (U+1D00) have no such mapping, so they survive; that’s why I rank them higher.

How can I verify you’re a real person?

Check my public Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, or email me from the contact page. NickGen isn’t run by an anonymous network — it’s one developer in Ho Chi Minh City.

— Hoàng Dương Dũng (Dung Hoang), Founder & Developer, NickGen · Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Updated July 23, 2026.