Mods for the Masses and/or Successor?

Hey again everyone and long time no read. ;) I've answered all you comments now back at the previous post, so if you know you've commented there be sure to go back there and read what the replies I've given you. :)

So ... what has I been up to, you ask? Well, it's been mostly work (my real-life work that is) ... a lot of battery creation there, since I work on a company called S.a.f.t. which creates larger batteries used in backups or hospitals or other larges constuctions.

But I've also played a couple of games and watched a couple of animes with my siblings. :) I've been playing The Darkness & Condemned 2 for Playstation 3 and they're both awesome games. The latter really chills your bones, so if you enjoy horror you should give it a try. It's one of the scarier games I've played to date ... Doom3 is one of the scariest I've played and C2 actually manages to surpass that one ... in my opinion. :)

I'm currently playing God of War 1 with my little brother (but he's not so little anymore, he's turned 13) and I'm enjoying it pretty much. My brother has talked about it a lot and finished both games and wanted me to play them as well, which is really fun! :)

The animes I've watched are Avatar - The Last Airbender (awesome anime, you gotta watch it!) and the Devil May Cry anime (with only 12 episodes) which was pretty decent. Not awesome but still pretty decent.

Anyways, what's with the title you ask? Well, you see I've been thinking about if I should release Insania Fabula & Puppet Masters to the community in it's unfinished state ... thus all of you can enjoy what little is there and anyone can choose to continue making the mods. OR ...

... is there anyone who'd like to take over the two projects (or one of them)? I'd love to see the two mods finished even though I'm not the one who's going to finish it.

In that case hopefully the voice-actors that signed for the projects will be wanting to lend their voices to the new mod-creator as well. I also have a couple of people that signed up to become writers of my various modules. If these people are interested, then they are at your disposal as well.


A successor should have these abilities:

*A major experience/knowledge of scripting
*Previous experience of making successful mods for either NWN1 or 2
*Experience of creating and changing/editing hak-files
*A good story-telling ability (the ability to shape a story)
*An ability to lead a project and follow a schedule (that you create and maintain yourself)
*Good writing skills
*Good skills when it comes to making conversations within the game


Thought I'd get this ball rollin' since I've been thinking about it for quite some time. Let me know what you all think and if someone's interested in taking over the project(s)!

Berra out.

Time for Closure.

Hey everyone. I won't be keeping this back any longer, since it's something I've been juggling back and forward with for the latest months. It's bad news I'm afraid, folks, but here it goes ... I've finally decided to end my mod-making hobby for NWN1. Sorry folks.

I know some of you may feel pretty sad and/or disappointed with this choice but I feel that I have to do this ... it feels like I've kept modding for far too long ... and in the years since when I released Surviving Horror 2 back in the end of 2006, well ... they haven't been that creative in the mod-making department, I'll have to admit.

The creativity that I possessed then simply isn't there anymore, in the same way as before, and I've been going back and forth between different mod-ideas: Angelic Life - a fantasy one, A Resident Evil mod, Insania Fabula ... and in hopes of finding my creativity again, I started Puppet Masters in order to distan myself from previous works and ideas ... ideas that all ended up feeling pretty dry after awhile. Probably mostly because it takes up so much time of my life to bring my ideas into the game that I loose my creativity on the way while encountering various bugs and other annoying problems.

I feel that I need to move on to other things now instead of simply "waiting" for my creativity to come back to me. I simply don't have the time I used to have. I have a full-time job and ... well, I usally end up starting too many projects all at once since I have such a wide-ranged creativity. For example, I have bought a dozen (probably more) dvds that I've been wanting to watch and well, haven't had the time to ... and there's a lot of games that I haven't even touched. Take Mass Effect for example ... I bought it on release day ... and I haven't even started playing. That's how bad it is.

Perhaps I need to get a little more structure on the stuff I do in order for it to work better ... and the thing is that I'm mostly too tired when I get home from work to put much time in anything creativity-like besides surfing the net, downloading stuff and just trying to load my batteries ... since it is clearly needed. And yesterday all of this struck me ... I need to leave some of the stuff I've been doing behind to prevent feeling overwhelmed with all the stuff I just HAVE TO FINISH. That's why I made the decision to end mod-building for NWN.

Thanks to everyone who has been following this blog. Both those I know of (my 5 devoted followers comes to mind ;) ) who's been posting comments and those who's just been reading the stuff I've been writing. Most importantly I'd like to thank Archon (Zoltan) for being a constant blog-commenter and giving support/ideas and the like ... and also for taking the time to make artwork for my mods. :) Awesome person.

And finally, perhaps a little comfort in all this ... there could be a chance that I will come back to mod building someday but in that case it won't be for NWN1 ... it'd be either for NWN2, Dragon Age or any other more "modern" game that most folks play. For I haven't managed to claim a Hall of Fame for those games yet ... ;) But it's not a promise.

That's all for now folks. I may still be posting stuff about NWN on this blog but it will probably not be for quite awhile.

Take care all,

Berra out.

VO Doubled = TRUE! (WTF?!)

Heh ... what's with the title, you ask? I dunno. Honestly ... I don't.

...

... just kidding there. ;) Of course I know what it means. :D Let me tell you:

The title basically means that it has been decided that Voice-Acting will be featured in Puppet Masters AND Insania Fabula. I sent a mail to all associated actors/actresses that has been set up for PM and they all accepted to make VO for IF too. Awesome people, if you ask me. ;)

The only one that hasn't answered this call yet is CJ Colins ... but perhaps his mail's broken ... or something. ;) We'll see how that turns out.

That's all for now folks. Happy holidays to all of you! :)

Berra out.

Writers, Come Forth!

Well, as the title suggests ... I'm looking for writers for my current module-project Insania Fabula. I simply don't have that much time anymore to be able to write everything I want for the module. So, I am currently looking for any talented writer-individuals that would like to write some pieces for me.

I'm looking for someone that would like to do the following:

*Make a story & personality for a character that the author creates.
*Come up with ideas for sidequests (not required, just a bonus).
*Use his/her imagination to come up with other dialogs that would be fitting to the enviroments & areas.
*Basically no other restrictions! Use your imagination! Do you think another new area would make a place for a great dialog? Let the author know!

That's about it, I think.

So please, anyone that feels that the above text would be doable, let me know by sending me an email from THIS PAGE!

Berra out.

Winner Insanity!

Hey everyone. The poll regarding whether if I should finish Insania Fabula or Puppet Masters first has just been finished and the winner is:

... INSANIA FABULA!

But it was a very close race ... I.F.'s victory was settled thanks to just ONE VOTE! The end results ended at 12 votes for IF and 11 votes for PM. Thanks to everyone who voted!

Now when that has been settled comes the next question ... should I feature Voice Acting for this mod as well? I'll let you readers decide. You'll find the poll at the top of this page.

Gimme your votes people!

Berra out.

Voice-Acting: Doubled or Not?

Hey again everyone. :) Hope you've been enjoying the Halloween module-project so far. I've personally not found the time to play it yet but I'm hoping to start first thing tomorrow. :)

Guys and gals ... I've been thinking. You all know that I've hired (and are currently hiring) voice-actors/actresses for my NWN1 module Puppet Masters, right? Well, I've been having thoughts about perhaps making voice-acting for Insania Fabula as well since many people (more than expected, really) has showed their interest in voice-acting for my mod. So, why not spread it out a bit? :) This won't mean that a voice-actor/actress can't have a role in both modules, of course. As long as the actor/actress in question feel like it, that's always fine by me. Actually ... it's pretty awesome, even. :)

It currently seems as I am writing this that Insania Fabula may win in the selection of which module that should be finished first ... and why not include voice-acting there as well? This way, my voice-actors will have more stuff to stick their creative-voices-teeth into. ;)

So to finalizie this post ... what do YOU think?

Berra out.

BouncyRock Halloween Event-Module RELEASED!

The work of a total of 25 different authors has finally been fully tested and released to the NWN-Vault! Awesome that so many authors (including me) could come together to do something like this for Halloween 2008. Be sure to be the first to check it out! :)

Berra out.