I haven't peeked at the word count lately, bu...

December 15, 2005 by Adam in NWN2

I haven't peeked at the word count lately, but I know it's pushing towards the 4,000 word limit. I even forgot a whole new final phase, which I'm only now getting to. Fortunately the Bioware FAQ does state "That being said, this is not a hard word count; it should be the writer's target." I suspect I'll be in the "writer's target" word count when I'm done. Hopefully I can tighten things up a bit. I have another quest that I'm thinking of that might make for a much less chatty submission. We'll see how it goes.

I managed to spend some time penciling out the psionic combat system, complete with constants, variable names, functions, and basic pseudo code. It all needs to be polished up, but hopefully should make for a fun little system.

It's similar to the arena combat in Demon, in that you have a proxy creature fighting for you. Instead of just watching, however, you can change your creature's form as well as applying short-lived bursts. The different forms have different upkeep costs, which drains from the same pool as your other psionic skills. If you run out of "focus", your creature reverts to a rather weak form and there's a good chance that you'll lose.

I still need to actually write some code for this whole thing, but I'm hopeful it's entertaining enough to be worthwhile.