Atari Takes Neverwinter Nights 2 On Summer Tour

 

NEW YORK, NY

I've always wanted to attend PAX, but it's the same week that school starts up. Just another reason to want to go and not be able to. Thanks Meta...bastard.

Hey, I didn't book the schedule: don't shoot the messenger!

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Comic-Con 2006: The Challenges Faced by Game Writers

 

These backdoor methods of waiting in the shadows for someone to become desperate seem to be the norm for getting a job as a game writer. Even Chris Avellone of Obsidian, designer and writer on games heavily praised for their writing such as Fallout 2, Planescape: Torment, Knights of the Old Republic 2 and now Neverwinter Nights 2, offers similar advice at the panel, advising that would-be game writers get their names (and business cards) spread around, network a whole heck of a lot, and wait.

 

"Be absolutely persistent," he said, "and then wait for someone who very desperately needs a writer."

In addition to would-be game writers facing a new way of thinking, there's yet another challenge - one of quantity. Because of the nature of the medium, and because players are not roped in to one continuous experience, game writing requires a great bulk of, well, writing.

 

"What we try to do is make sure that every character has three or four different stories going on at once, but that experience might be different depending on your play style," explained Avellone. "You actually have to include three or four branching plotlines that might change. It's like a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' book, but a lot more complicated and detailed."

Edited July 21, 200619 yr by funcroc

Awesome! I just registered to attend PAX on the 26th. They better f-ing be there and they better have a demo I can take home to tide me over until the game gets released! Only then will I forgive them for moving the release date and ruining my birthday! :D

Hey, I didn't book the schedule: don't shoot the messenger!

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Haven't you noticed that it always the messenger that get's shot first?

I'm actually in Vegas in between the first two shows, dagnabbit.

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"What we try to do is make sure that every character has three or four different stories going on at once, but that experience might be different depending on your play style," explained Avellone. "You actually have to include three or four branching plotlines that might change. It's like a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' book, but a lot more complicated and detailed

 

Lou Gutman = lead developer in training. He should put "Supermarket Hy-jinx" on his resume.

 

Am I right?

Edited July 21, 200619 yr by Darth Drabek

Futhermore, I think their touring group should consist atlest one junior designer, preferably woman and preferably called "Annie"... I

Like amazing an NWN 2 tour.

I move out of the Midwest because nothing ever happened there and now they get NWN2 in Indiana. F--- me.

Edited July 22, 200619 yr by AngryKidJoe

Quick, move back!

I move out of the Midwest because nothing ever happened there and now they get NWN2 in Indiana. F--- me.

 

Sorry, but my actual initial reaction to this was: "Ha, ha, you suck!" :D

There are witness accounts that verify that.

Again, sorry...

And as a side note, find a band that knows the real/true meaning behind the penticle. Too many people get their occult knowledge from watching B horror flicks and think its fact.

What? Did you post this in the wrong thread or something?

 

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Penticle - This 5 pointed star surrounded by a circle is the most wide known of the symbols. In the U.S. it is generally worn with the single point facing upward because the Christian Church has brainwashed people into believing that the star with the point facing downward is a symbol of the devil. This is an OUT AND OUT LIE! The penticle with the point facing downward is the earth energy based penticle and in Europe is worn by the practitioners who have attained their second degree.

Edited July 24, 200619 yr by Pidesco

This is a NWN2 thread not a religious or discussion on ancient symbols thread.

Good observation.

Good observation.

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You too.

pentAcle

n noun

1 a pentagram, or a symbolic figure inscribed with one.

2 (pentacles) one of the suits in some tarot packs, corresponding to coins in others.

 

ORIGIN

C16: from medieval Latin pentaculum, apparently based on Greek penta- 'five'.

Pentacle is a pentagram without the circle.

 

 

Is this going anywhere? Is it even relevant?