Somehow my wife was extra kind to me and mana...

July 05, 2006 by Adam in NWN2

Somehow my wife was extra kind to me and managed to give me quite a bit of time to work on the module. Most of it was spent finishing up an area in the Clockwork Man quest, working on gnome dialog.

It's amazing how much work is required to do a significant conversation. There's the usual quest giving actions, tracking the state of the quest and changing dialog accordingly. There's also variation and allowing characters to use their skills, such as persuade, intimidate, and so on. It's pretty easy to create dozens of scripts in NWN just to support a single dialog.

With luck I'll be able to continue working on the Mechanist area. I made a fun little item yesterday called "Trap-in-a-Box" that lets anyone set a trap. There's only a few of them in the game, but since not everyone plays rogues, it's a neat gameplay element to let other folks try out.

Update: As an aside, it looks like Demon is running a close third on NWVault's Mod of 2004 poll. Feel free to vote, if that's your sort of thing. :)