Neverending Nights

It has beguns!
Season Two has officially begun and the first episode is out…

… for the sponsors!

That’s right, if you have sponsored us – you can now access the Sponsor forum and download the madness that is Episode 22 of Neverending Nights – the very first episode of Season Two!

But don’t worry, non sponsoring people! This isn’t the end of the world! No, sir (or ma’am)! In one week from today, there will be a public listing of Episode 22 for you to download! You just have to wait a week (or get in there and sponsor us, and get it sooner!) All the episodes of Neverending Nights will always be available to sponsors ONE week before it’s released to the public – just a way for us to thank those who sponsor our bandwidth and website!

But fear not – this is a gift for everyone – the Season 2 Wallpaper!

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Just right click it and set it as your wallpaper and you can always have Peter and Grayson with you!

OMFG?!?! Season Two of NeN?!?!?

Not quite!

But if you’re jonesing for a dose of Peter and Grayson (and come on, who isn’t? Even straight men want a ‘dose’ of Peter and Grayson!) Well, Poppy (and her “team” – Johnny, Stephanie and Marcelo) wanted to do their “Post Modernism Theory” using machinima. So Adam and I agreed to help. However, all of it is written by Poppy, Johnny, Stephanie and Marcelo – except for the answers we give Stephanie in her Q&A session with Peter and Grayson. In that case, Adam wrote my answers (for Peter) and I wrote his answers (for Grayson). The video is a total of 13 minutes and some change, and leads into a 74 meg sized file! But you should definitely download it! You might learn a thing or two about Post Modernism Theory – and if you do, please email Adam and I … because even after all of this, we still have no idea what we talked about!

Head into this thread to grab the URL of the video and enjoy!

Also, last night we completed the following people’s roles for ALL of Season Two of Neverending Nights – Adam, Myself, Paul, Amanda, Myoki, Aim, Poppy, Hannah and Jeremy! That leaves us with a few more voices to grab from our actor peeps! So Season Two SHOULD come out on a much more… regular schedule. And should have a lot less lag time between episodes!

Well, not yet! But we’re going to begin filming and start scheduling when we can yank people in to start doing voices!

In the meantime, about Season 2…

Special thanks to Derek “D-Slash” Smith, who created the pixels of the Neverending Nights characters. I edited the image to create the above in a moment of boredom. Enjoy!

Derek redid the cartoon in a far superior fashion – now included above.

So last night – Adam and I got to talking and we decided on something. We’re actually going to be continuing Neverending Nights Season 2 with Bioware’s game engine of Neverwinter Nights.

And it was for a number of reasons. While Neverwinter Nights 2 has a superior toolset (it’s SO amazing), and more emotes on the Beta Set (we learned later that there’s only about 10 to 12 on the release version, so they knocked out about 15 emotes!) – there were other factors to consider. First, we couldn’t find “the right look” for Peter and Grayson in NWN2. We came close, but it just didn’t feel right. And I think that’s important – having a look that matches that characters personality and voice. And none of them jumped out at us, when we tried to remake them in NWN2. And then of course, we’d have to remake everyone else (Andrea, Daniel, the goblins, etc). Another thing was, the entire set is already COMPLETELY built for Season 2 in the NWN1 toolset. So we’re saving ourselves time, trying to rebuild each set between episodes and causing more of a delay. And the final thing, that I think sealed it for me was – Season 2 was written with NWN1’s toolset in mind, so there’s creatures and what not available through NWN1’s toolset and CEP that are not yet available in NWN2. So those episodes would have to be reworked completely.

So what’s this mean? Well this means that the first episode of Season 2 should be coming out in about a week or two. (We’re going to enjoy this long weekend we’re given here in the US of A!) We need to film and grab everyone’s line for audio. Thankfully, just about every voice is local to us (only a few might provide a wee problem) – so the audio should be fairly easy to start getting done. And then the filming and editing – and we’re off and running!

Will we ever film in NWN2 for NeN…? I don’t know, but I’d say … I don’t think so. We’re going to save the “Neverending Daze” stuff for the NWN2 toolset. And you can look forward to a few more of those at least in the near future. (Atari still has Episode 05, and has for like a week now, and has not yet released it – so it’s up them when they let those episodes become available to the public)!

Well, Episode 05 is ready – and in its current, super secret location, waiting for ATARI to come grab it and throw it on their site to make it available!

Due to some limits in the way NWN2 handles things, some of it did not turn out as good as I had hoped, so some things got dropped or changed! But I think it still came out pretty interesting! In this episode, we tried to show case (and yet still make an episode) about how you can scale ANYTHING in the NWN2 toolset… (There’s a scaled house, giant, even tress and rocks – scaled to mountain size!)

So bug the folks of ATARI and tell them to hurry up and make it available!