Bandwidth, Mirror Sites, and Paypal!

UPDATE: Please download from the temp. mirror that we have up. The mirror is temp. being used to help with the bandwidth. Our mention in Bioware Weds’ weekly newsletter has spiked out bandwidth to its max! Also, as you may have noticed, we now have a paypal button to help pay for the bandwidth, or just to donate to help maintain the site, etc.

Neverending Nights, Promo Video

MIRROR SITE: Promo.


Neverending Nights, Episode One: Heroes?!

MIRROR SITE: Episode One.


Neverending Nights, Episode Two: 20k?!

MIRROR SITE: Episode Two.


Neverending Nights, Episode Three: Come on Baby, Light my Fire.

MIRROR SITE: Episode Three.


Neverending Nights, Episode Four: A Walk In The Woods.

MIRROR SITE: Episode Four.


Neverending Nights, Episode Five: Ye Salty Dog!

MIRROR SITE: Episode Five.


Neverending Nights, Episode Six: He’s A Magic Man!

MIRROR SITE: Episode Six.


Neverending Nights, Episode Seven: Things That Make You Go… Boom?

MIRROR SITE: Episode Seven.


SPECIAL BITS AND PIECES!


Neverending Nights: Episode One: Audio Out Takes.

MIRROR SITE: Out Takes Vol. 1.


Neverending Nights: Out Takes – Volume 2.

MIRROR SITE: Out Takes Vol. 2.


Neverending Nights: SideQuest: PC GAMER UK

MIRROR SITE: SideQuest – PC GAMER.


Neverending Nights: SideQuest: Valentine’s Day

MIRROR SITE: SideQuest – Valentine’s Day.

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Help rank us!

Machinima.com has a snazzy counter that counts the number of times a video is downloaded – and this is what decides their “top shows” and “most frequently downloaded” (makes sense, doesn’t it?) Well, a shame we didn’t like through Machinima.com before the BioWare Weds ad came out! I would have loved to seen what the results would have been! But at any rate – I have the links here now – and also updated our video section to include the below links. (But by all means – don’t feel free to help us score top video at the moment and download the videos again just for the sake of the counter, because we’re rapidly screeching towards our bandwidth limit for the month!)

Neverending Nights: Promo Video.

Episode One: Heroes?!

Episode Two: 20k!

Episode Three: Come on Baby, Light my Fire.

Episode Four: A Walk In The Woods

Episode Five: Ye Salty Dog!

SideQuest: PC GAMER UK

For Episodes Six and Seven, and the Valentine’s Day SideQuest – they’re not on Machinima.com yet. So those will still be found in our video section.

So not only will it help cut down on our bandwidth (which is now at 89% when I last checked!) – but Machinima.com also keeps track and counts how many times a video is downloaded! Enough downloads could land us on the “Top Shows” section of their site, which would be nice!

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Success has a price!

Well, I am going to just come in here and say…

The site might be down in a short while, until we get the account possibly upgraded! The reaction to being mentioned in Bioware’s newsletter has created a tremendous interest (or at least an insane amount of downloading from the site). And unfortunately, we don’t have any mirror sites set up to take off the amount of bandwidth being used.

We have a total of 80 gigs per month… and never did we imagine we would use more than 66% of it. (Which was last month, after the mention in PC GAMER UK). However… here we are, a mere 3 days into the month and we have already reached 89% of that 80gigs!

Incredible.

Anyway, Adam is probably asleep – and me – I am still walking on Cloud 9 from the Bioware Weds mention… and I think if I called Adam right now … he would not be amused. So I will get a hold of him tomorrow and we will check into possibly getting the bandwidth upped to handle this month’s raise!

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Bioware Weds News! (And It’s Big!)

Bioware Weds – At Bioware.com!

Hey, it’s official! The big news is out! A few weeks ago, the folks at Bioware got in contact with us and struck up an interview! Well, it’s now officially released on Bioware’s website (the makers of Neverwinter Nights, the game engine we use) – you can see it at the Bioware Weds Newsletter page!

March 16, 2005 wrote:March 16th, 2005
Neverending Nights – More Random Updates
Well, Adam, Paul and myself – just finished recording Episode 11’s Audio last night… and we are pretty sure our new “heroes” are going to become the new fan favorites! (Perhaps even becoming more popular than Peter, if such a thing is possible!)

I can not tell you how much fun we had recorded this episode… Well, with my talent for rambling (no really, scroll down)… I am sure I could. But I will save that tale for another time!

Well we have laid low bringing updates here because of our bandwidth woes. After being mentioned in the Bioware Newsletter, we tripled our bandwidth max (which was 80 gigs). So I haven’t said much here, trying to let the bandwidth kind of even out. But… some updates…

The filming for Episode 9 is now also complete (but still needs to edited… naturally, after Episode 8 is edited… and speaking of Episode 8…)

Episode 8 is nearly complete, and will probably be available soon. It will probably be available off the mirror site exclusively for bandwidth purposes (for the time being, till we make it into next month).

We still need to film Episode 10 and 11… and that will put us ahead for a little while.

The reaction to us being in the Bioware Newsletter has been overwhelming! It’s given us a ton more exposure (naturally if we have tripled our bandwidth limit of 80 gigs, right?)… And because of those bandwidth woes, we opened up a Neverending Nights Paypal account… where donations will go towards the website’s bandwidth… recording studio equipment… etc etc.

Also if anyone is going to E3, look for us there! (Well, we won’t have a booth… but Adam, myself and Chris [who plays Eric the Elongated in Episode 9]… and we’re working on getting Paul [who plays, aduh, Paul the Dwarf] the pass we need – will be at E3 roaming around)! And if ye see us and wanan smack us, say hello, or whatever – feel free to!

Also thinking of opening up a Cafepress store as well… both for advertising purposes… and to make a dollar here and there – again all to pay for that crazy bandwidth.

Before – every day we averaged about 1 to 2 gigs… So the closest we ever really got was using about 65 gigs of 80gigs…

Since the Bioware Newsletter – our average seems to be sitting at 3 to 3.5 gigs every day… (So even if ye take 3 gigs x 30 days = 90 gigs – which still goes over our bandwidth)!

So we will probably be doing a few things when Episode 10 comes out…

1. We will cut it down to make it only 5 Episodes available for download, and we will rotate through them. (So for example, when we release Episode 10, probably Episodes 6 thru 10 will be available… then around Episode 15, it will be like Episodes 1 thru 4, plus Episode 15, etc etc).

2. We’re going to offer low-res versions of the video. Because, let’s face it – we don’t have the mad following that folks like Rooster Teeth have. So not everyone is all into having Hi-Res versions of our videos. Some would be content – and probably more than happy, for that matter – to have low-res versions, as they just may wanna watch it and delete it (and this would provide quicker downloads).

So between low-res versions, limited videos available, mirror sites, paypal donations, and opening a NeN store soon… I am hoping that everything balances out.

Wonder who has done what voices (or who will be doing what voices in upcoming episodes) – check out the Cast & Credits link.

Phew.

I think that’s it for now.

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Bioware Wednesday!

Well the big suprise is out and D-Slash found it before we did!!!! Damn you D-Slash!

You can read the article here http://nwn.bioware.com/players/profile_machinima.html

And post about it here http://neverendingnights.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=719&sid=d25505a886a12a86a1f0b2d26a3a2dff#719

(Tawmis sneaks in… just because he likes to chatter a lot….)

Also – if you are freaky like I am, there’s now downloadable versions of the interview! You can download the Word Document Version, The Image Version, and of course the PDF Version!

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