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BONE US!

NeN Admin — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:25:20 +0000

Or… just Bonus. Which ever one gets your attention first. A ton of odd, random videos related to NeN have now become available for download on our Bonus Page. File sizes aren’t there yet, but will be in the near … Continue reading →

The Recording Sessions.

NeN Admin — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:16:11 +0000

So I have a bunch of video from when we recorded Season 3 (I camcorded most of it), and have been going through some of it – and getting a laugh out of some of it. I had previously made some of it available – but I am thinking I am going to cut some of these together, and offer it up as one video. One of the greatest things about this was how much fun we had while we were recording the voices. There was a lot of laughing, banter, questioning of why this or that was happening…

Here’s some examples…

Sausage WHAT?

Clearing up some rumors…

What Would Grayson Say?

- Tawmis

Machinima and Awards and Drinks, Oh My!

NeN Admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:42:56 +0000

As mentioned previously, after PC GAMER UK and our interview on Bioware’s website, we got nominated for Comedy in the 2005 Machinima Awards. We didn’t win, and I didn’t expect to – but it was still a very incredible night.

Especially having Paul thank Adam and I (among others) for making the trek out to New York in 2005….

When we submitted our final screening video, I wanted to make an intro to the Episodes (because we were going to show like Episodes 10 to 15 or something like that; something near the middle of the first season; so I wanted a way to warm the crowd up and catch them up with what to expect)… And here’s that video for the 2005 Machinima:

And here it is (recorded by me on my phone) as it was being screened:

I admit, when Adam mentioned it was open bar and they had Rum and Coke, I may have had a few (and couldn’t operate my camera later that night)…

And may have had some difficultly walking later…

- Tawmis

Neverending Nights – Season 1 – Recap.

NeN Admin — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 02:33:34 +0000

When we were making the Season 2 DVD for NEVERENDING NIGHTS, I made a “Recap” video that would have played at the beginning – to essentially recap 21 episodes worth down to 10 minutes (and cover all the important things, and character bits that give you a feel for the characters) – in case someone new was watching the DVD and hadn’t seen Season 1. It never made it onto the DVD, so here it is for you to check out:

- Tawmis

So why did we do machinima instead of live acting?

NeN Admin — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:57:41 +0000

So thousands – perhaps millions! – of people have told us, “Man! You guys are really funny! But why did you guys do Machinima instead of a live acting video of some kind?”

I pondered this for a moment. Then dug through the archives of videos we had done, for live action – and found my answer. Because, in front of the camera, we’re really horrible actors! (Hey! You! In the back! I heard that about we’re bad voice actors too!) At any rate, Adam and I had made a video back in 2004, while we were out camping – to essentially spoof ourselves! We made a video, as Peter as Grayson – in the modern world. (Pay attention to how we emote sometimes; you will see they’re references to how the characters emote in Neverwinter Nights). This videos dates all the way back to 2004. The story was fun (there’s some mistakes that we overlooked, “Hold on, let me get a note and a paper so I can write a note to my loved ones…”) – but the real fun happens at the out takes at the end (because that’s Adam and I at our best!)

Neverending Skewl Daze.

NeN Admin — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 07:56:50 +0000

If, at any point, while I was writing NEVERENDING NIGHTS, someone would have told me, “Hey! Peter and Grayson could be used for some kind of school project!” I would have laughed. If someone told me that they would to have Peter, Grayson and Neverending Nights be a part of their final paper in College – I would have scoffed (and warned them that doing so would doom them to failure). So when Poppy (our beloved Salt Vendor) came up to me with the idea of using Neverending Nights for her College class paper – I couldn’t help but chuckle. Since it was for her class, she wrote the script herself (with a little input here and there from Adam and I about how the characters would react) – but since a large part of it had to do with things that were way too intelligent for Adam and I to understand – we left the writing of the majority of the script to Poppy for this. The script was voiced by Poppy, Amiee, Adam and myself; who had experience recording for Neverending Nights. But the rest of the people on Poppy’s team had not done anything like this and had to be a part of the project – and thus voice characters. Some really got into it, some were really monotone, and some were VERY giggly (that may have been the wine). At any rate, this was exceptionally fun to do (even if we didn’t understand the subject matter at hand), to work with new people and see them in front of the mic, and see how they designed their own characters in the toolset and how they laughed when voice and character were combined to make them come alive.

The Outtakes are by far my favorite. Be advised there is CUSSING in the out takes and it is NOT child friendly.

- Tawmis

Neverending Daze – Episode 05.

NeN Admin — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:59:04 +0000

The Neverwinter Nights Toolset had some amazing abilities that allowed anyone using it to create some very truly custom content – because everything in the game could be resized to the builder’s desire! This was the last one we did for Atari to promote the NWN2 game before it’s release. In this episode we wanted to show case how toolset builders could modify the size of ANYTHING in the game – from houses to cats! Even Thurg is modified by the toolset, if you hadn’t noticed.

Neverending Daze – Episode 04.

NeN Admin — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:27:08 +0000

This episode was meant to show off some of the undead. A lot of times, there were things we expected NWN2 to be able to do that NWN1 had – but, sadly, did not carry over in terms of being able to control the monsters as needed (DMJump is what it was most commonly called) – so sometimes we had to make adjustments as we played with NWN2 to make these videos.

Neverending Daze – Episode 03.

NeN Admin — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:50:40 +0000

This is the only episode of Neverending Daze that ties in with the previous episode. This was originally intended, when the script was written, to be a BEHOLDER. However, when we got the pre-beta copies of the game, there were NO Beholders in the game (Much to our surprise!) – so we had to scramble and change a few things in the script. It was intended to show off the Beholder, ended up showing off a demon/devil.

Neverending Daze – Episode 02.

NeN Admin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:09:28 +0000

As mentioned previously, when we made Neverending Daze, it was to promote NWN2 before it actually came out. We had been given Alpha & Beta copies of the game, as we worked on this. I got ahead of myself when I wrote this script – because the intended monster to show off (which is very well known in Forgotten Realms) was intended to be a Beholder. However, Beholders were not put into the Alpha & Beta versions of the NWN game (I am not even 100% sure if they ever made it into the NWN2 game, for that matter, now that I come to think of it!). So once I saw that, I had to make some adjustments to the actual script. The adventure was meant to show off what DUNGEONS looked like in NWN2.