Samen Gitnohn - Cypher or not?

Came across a variant of this in an old Bards Tale PC game as Samen Nghoint which comes out as "Means Nothing" As does the title.

Cipher would be epcihr for example. A variant a friend used effectively reversed this by alternating in the opposite direction. rhicpe

Is this even a cipher and does it have a name?

And yeah misspelled cipher in the title.