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Commenting on the Official Board Update

Cord Grimwinder-8d A clarification about the storyline: We finished creating extensive outlines (approx. 30 pages per outline) for each of our modules last September or so. In February, we were writing prototype conversation for some of the modules in…

Mac OS

Gamer asks about the mac os port: In the last chat session with BioWare, it was stated that work was moving forward with the carbonization of NwN. For those non-Mac people out there, what this means is that NwN will…

Traditional Art?

Gamer gives his on the merits of traditional art in the interface: One of the things that made BG1/ 2 and IWD better than planescape I thought was the traditional art used. ie, instead of just computer modeling everything, there…

Module Sizes

Gamer asks about how big custom modules are bound to be: Anybody knows what will be the size of a module file? I know it depends on how many areas and their sizes….consider a maximum number of areas with maximum…

What happens when a script goes bad

Gamer asks about the implications of bad scripting: …What is the potential for custom scripting to lead to buggy games? I’m just thinking that with so many people planning persistant worlds and continuous running scripts, will we be seeing games…

Various Updates

After numerous emails asking where the Ghoul Lord area was, I have added a location that I missed when I initially posted the walkthrough, the Ghoul Lord Bridge. While posting this up, I took the oppurtunity to add two pieces…

Walkthrough Addition

Tonight I’ve added a very lengthy walkthrough location, the Clerk’s Ward, as well as the “dungeon” underneath the ward called UnderSigil. I’ll have the Civic Festhall and the Brothel of Slating Intellectual Lusts up next. Updated Pages: Walkthrough (includes the…

New DAoC Screenshots

Looks like Camelot Nexus posted up a whole slug of screenshots from Midgard, the recently opened realm in the Dark Age of Camelot beta. You can find them here.

Morrowind Design Diary

VoodooExtreme has posted up the fifth edition of their Morrowind Design Diary, this time with comments from one of Bethesda’s programmers, Mike Lipari. Here’s a snippet: By this point, the average reader already knows that Morrowind, the third RPG in…

Blizzard Diablo II Expansion Whips

Keeping up their hype machine to a finely-tuned mellow purr, Blizzard continues to send us visual morsels of the expansion pack to the number one selling game of last year, Diablo II, Lord of Destruction. There’s one of the new…