Neverending Nights

Well, I finished the temp cover last night. So the front, back and side portion are all completed. Now it’s a matter to properly resizing them to be DVD Cover Fits. Then print them. Then get the DVDs from Adam – and ship’em off! So by this week (I hope), everyone’s DVD will be in the mail and bound for their new homes! The “real” cover will be shipped to all of you whenever Lindsay gets that portion done.

If you have ever played AD&D (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons) – namely, 2nd Edition (still my pers

onal favorite, but that’s neither here nor there) – you probably know who Tiamat is. Or if you have ever watched the Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon, you should remember who Tiamat is. If you’re a Dragonlance fan, you probably know her as Takhisis, the Queen of Darkness.

Regardless of being an old AD&D gamer, a Dragonlance fan, or a fan of the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon – you knew Tiamat, no matter her name, was someone not to be messed with. And she’s always been someone that I have always really enjoyed! Well, the folks of Paizo, along with Wizards of the Coast, seem to be giving her a huge push!

She’s being featured on the cover of the Art of Dragon Magazine, as well as the Dungeons & Dragons Minatures, and she also made the cover of this month’s Dragon Magazine. So I would definitely check those out. Or suffer the wrath that Tiamat delivers to your home.

In other news, Bioware is celebrating 3 million community members. 3 friggin’ million. And here we are at NeN with like 75, and only like 10 regular posters (and even that’s slowed down since we’re between seasons!) But that is also neither here nor there – the reason I am mentioning this is because you can enter to win stuff like:

Grand Prize: The Ultimate Gaming Setup!

An NVIDIA PC Gaming System
AMD SLI system
XP4000+ CPU
Dual 7800GTX 512MB cards
2GB memory
120GB SATA Drive
ASUS MB
DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive
An Xbox 360 Premium Bundle
Xbox 360 Video Game System
Xbox 360 Hard Drive (20GB)
Xbox 360 Memory Unit (64MB)
Xbox 360 Wireless Controller
Xbox 360 Rechargeable Battery Pack
Xbox 360 Headset
Xbox 360 Universal Media Remote
Xbox 360 VGA HD AV Cable
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2nd & 3rd Place Winners Will Each Receive:
An Xbox 360 Premium Bundle, and
An NVIDIA 7800GTX 512MB video card

Contest Details
Contest closes August 21, 2006, 11:59PM Edmonton Time. Winners will be notified by e-mail.
BioWare Employees and family members are not eligible to enter.

So I would head over there and check that out.

Also, the new Bloodspell Interview is up on the Bioware page – but most importantly, NeN is listed as one of the links at the bottom of the interview! Like I always say, they save the best for last! That’s my thinking!

And as for the E3 pictures – well finally got them – and realized I didn’t take nearly as many pictures as I had thought. There’s only like five that deal with Neverwinter Nights 2, then 3 pictures of Illidan (of Warcraft III fame), and then a few other scattered pictures.

So Adam’s working hard on adding more to Season 2… and we’re still shooting for a July 15th recording date to gather everyone (or as many as we can) to be there to record their lines – so we have the same mic quality, we can play off one another, and we won’t be waiting for people’s lines (or at least fewer people’s lines). We’re also working on some other things that we’re pretty excited about – more on that eventually. And of course, there’s the fact that I just dug my camera out of my car – and to my surprise – realized that I never published any of the pictures from E3 that I took – which includes photos of Neverwinter Nights 2 and what not. So I am hoping to get those uploaded tonight and I will share them on the forum.

And speaking of Neverwinter Nights 2, don’t forget you can view the trailer for the game over here.

Well, originally I was gonna work on that one shot thingie I wanted to do – just to some editing while we work on NeN Season 2 and some other stuff. We’re looking to hopefully nail a July 15th date for the audio recordings (doing them all at one time if possible). We’re also being kept busy working on some other stuff and plowing through this thing called life. (Work has given me like four 10 hour days… then on Saturday we did a 138 person move which lead to a 12 hour work day of manual labor… I hate manual labor. I mean. I really hate it!) Ahem – anyway – don’t fear! I still wanna do that little one shot video thing in the meantime – but I am going to await for the arrival of…

My new computer.

That’s right – Mr. Reboots is going to be put aside. I will probably still use it for audio stuff and video capture (since the video capture card is in it) – like importing old VHS tapes and home videos and what not. That will free up me using my new computer. It’s slated to arrive – hopefully, by Friday.

In the meantime, be sure to head over to GameSpot to check out the Designer Diary for Neverwinter Nights 2. It includes a video with some gameplay – and there’s a considerable amount of new images from actual game play (well, new to me anyway).

Okay, it’s been entirely too long since we have done any audio stuff since we’re still writing Season 2. And we’re working on a few things. But I have been itching to do something – anything – that has to do with NeN. The site, and forum, has become more of a ghost town than it normally is. So while I was sitting there, I thought of something to do – I just need to get off my duff, fight with a PC that enjoys to reboot itself randomly, and do some filming and editing. The audio will have nothing to do with us – but should be somewhat fun, anyway. If I can get SIMS2 to work as well, it would combine Sims2 + NWN = NeN’ish. This is probably gonna take me some time, as I don’t have SIMS2 installed on my computer (and need to see if my wife can find all the CDs for the game, in the first place). And then I need to research how to stop SIMS2’s AI, so that the people I am filming don’t get up and leave on their own or do something I don’t want them to. And then figure out if there’s a way to remove the green arrow over their head and the dialogue type boxes in SIMS2. So if anyone knows how to do any of this – feel free to post it on the forum and let me know. I am just itching to do something to put on here as a download.

Also, I contacted Linz to ask if she has an ETA for the DVD cover, so we can get those out the door. For those of you who partook of sponsorship, when I hear back I will keep you posted in the sponsor forum.