BioWare: The Contest That Might Become Your Career

[alec]

Are you a writer?
Do you want to work for BioWare?
Yes?
Then click here!

It all boils down to this:

BioWare asks for writers to create a Neverwinter Nights module to tell their story using the Aurora Toolset. There are a lot of options to consider when creating a module in the Toolset, but it is important to remember that BioWare will only be interested in the writing.

 

[Roshambo]

So they're looking to replace Gaider from someone in the mod community.

Sounds about right, considering that most of the modding community could write circles around his "Exponentially More Work Story Paths".

I would also like to note, for anyone who is going to try this, get used to swallowing your integrity to design a game...oh, wait, you already are used to it. You use the NWN Toolkit!

Optional but bonus qualifications include:
Taking a beloved character system and setting, to make a bland and boring RTS combat system out of it
Cliché speech options
If the plot includes amnesia, you = WIN!

 

[TheWesDude]

every time i try to use the NWN toolset, i just break down and cry at how stupid it is and how difficult. then i jump into RunUO and its easy as hell to get shit done.

 

[Ratty Sr.]

Aurora Toolkit? Easy to use, but unstable as hell, and not all that powerful. One still needs a lot of external tools to accomplish certain tasks (mostly graphics-related) that are a must for professional game development. I'd be impressed if the toolkit supported plugins.

 

[Sander]

Aurora Toolkit? Easy to use, but unstable as hell, and not all that powerful. One still needs a lot of external tools to accomplish certain tasks (mostly graphics-related) that are a must for professional game development. I'd be impressed if the toolkit supported plugins.

Last time I used it, building something really persistent was impossible, because writing to disk could not be done. It took modders about a year to come up with a solution that almost worked halfway-decent.