I've been hunkering down and getting some wri...

April 11, 2008 by Adam in NWN2

I've been hunkering down and getting some writing done yesterday and this morning. I had my daughter read the very short "Princess of Lies" dialog. The entire Isle of the Dead area is turning out to be highly comedic, hopefully not too much so for the tone of the campaign. It's hard to resist playing up the humor when the player is rocking their way through the afterlives, magical lute in hand.

In terms of the gameplay itself, I'm slowly getting the kinks worked out. Being attacked while playing is currently somewhat fatal, as the dialog that drives your playing fails and you get swarmed by enemies. I think I have a workaround for that, basically clearing your combat state and starting the dialog again. It was working fairly well this morning.

The battle effects need some more refinement, though admittedly my focus when playing is watching the frets. I may end up using my "camera companion" approach to try and get interesting shots of the battle. We'll see how it turns out.

As for today, I need to finish my dialog and get it to the voice actors. I have a couple who are itching to work on something fairly soon.