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High-Tech Games: Neverwinter Nights

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by NewsPro, Apr 29, 2001.

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    (Originally posted by Darien)

    Gamespot has put together a list of "high tech" games, and the upcoming Neverwinter Nights is, of course, included. You can jump straight to the subsection on Neverwinter Nights here.

    BioWare isn't going to simply release basic in-house tools; the company plans to test, document, and optimize the toolset programs so that players can use them easily without having to figure out on their own how all these tools work. Grieg says that with the Neverwinter Toolset, "a cool-looking module, complete with waterfalls and a small village, [can be] painted in less than five minutes and then loaded into the game." During a company meeting, when the Neverwinter Nights team demonstrated these game-making tools, "everyone in the room recognized how revolutionary that kind of power was going to be and what a profound impact it would have on our development process," says Grieg. "And it's precisely that revolution that we'll be turning over to our end users."

    Or if you want to read more, you can check out the full article. Here's a short introduction:

    In the following pages, we discuss 10 recent or upcoming games that represent high-tech gaming. These are truly innovative and technologically unique games--ones that will probably inspire other developers and a dozen copycats and move game design forward. Almost every game mentioned here has been or will likely be released this year. Among them, a few trends for 2001 and beyond are worth noting: Artificial intelligence has been the biggest focus of improvement in RPGs and real-time strategy games; living persistent worlds will affect the player's decisions as you would expect in real life; and the use of photorealistic graphics is on the rise.
     
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