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Sorcerer's Place Mysteries of Westgate Interview

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by Taluntain, Dec 18, 2007.

  1. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    [​IMG]Tonight on Sorcerer's Place: a chat with Ossian Studios about their soon to be released Mysteries of Westgate adventure pack for Neverwinter Nights 2. Here's a small sample of what awaits within:

    SP: Pretty much everyone recognizes you as the authors of Darkness over Daggerford, which is well deserved. In some other interviews, you mentioned the Baldur's Gate games as the principal sources of inspiration. In what ways did Daggerford and the Baldur's Gate games influence your work on MoW?

    Alan Miranda: Baldur’s Gate 1 was the big influence with Darkness over Daggerford, with its world exploration and discovery of lots of different rural areas. Baldur’s Gate 2 was the big influence for Mysteries of Westgate because with MoW we had decided to do a city adventure, and the best example of that was Athkatla. City adventures require more content in an area than the same size rural area, otherwise they feel empty (which definitely doesn’t help with getting across a bustling city feel). To accomplish this, we needed to develop a number of sidequests to spread across all our areas. This is an aspect that we learned a good deal from Daggerford, where one of the most popular features of that game was our sidequests, so we created similarly captivating sidequests in MoW. Each of our writers, as well as Luke and myself, wrote several sidequests to spread across our four main areas, and some of them are pretty hefty in size.

    Interested in reading more? Head over here...
     
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  2. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Interview updated with an exclusive new screenshot. Check it out!
     
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    Urithrand Mind turning the light off? ★ SPS Account Holder Veteran

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    Aww, man, I can't believe they might require us to authenticate each time we play again. I've never successfully got a single premium module to validate properly, meaning a huge waste of money on my part...
     
    Urithrand, Dec 19, 2007
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  4. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Why didn't you follow it up with the official support? It's not too late...
     
    Taluntain, Dec 19, 2007
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