Well, I'm posting from my hotel room, making ...

April 27, 2006 by Adam in NWN2

Well, I'm posting from my hotel room, making due with an old laptop and a fairly good Internet connection. I've actually been making some progress on the module, adding in the things necessary for the card quest.

I've been scribbling other dialog as I can, and beginning to lay plans for the third module. I'm trying not to get too far ahead of myself, as I'm certain to be doing some extensive QA work after I "finish" this current module.

The 1.67 patch was finally released, which I've been waiting for. There's a reasonable chance I'll end up using some of the new tilesets, as well as the new functions. SetName is a biggie for me, as all the ships are currently called "Ship", which isn't particularly exciting. I spent some time this morning putting together a list of over four thousand ship names. I hope to put together a random name generator. Ideally I'd have one for each faction, but I may just keep things simpler and use a single list. Since they're all names that come from real ships or ships in fiction, there's a good chance people recognize some of them.

I'm traveling back home late today, but hopefully I'll get some time to scribble some more before the day is done. It's nice that one of the most time consuming tasks, writing, just requires pencil and paper.

It also looks like I've convinced Danmar to work on a quest for the campaign. He's another jack-of-all-trades sort of chap, and will likely do all the modeling, scripting, and writing for the area he's working on. I'm a longtime fan of his work, and used a bunch of his custom content throughout the Dreamcatcher series. He's also worked on a couple models already, such as the lighthouse and Black Spot. Exciting stuff.