There is a grade one level module posted and a number of people have downloaded it over the last few months. I'd love some feedback and this is a good way for you to spend some quality gaming time with your children
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Posté 19 décembre 2010 - 03:38
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Hi All,
There is a grade one level module posted and a number of people have downloaded it over the last few months. I'd love some feedback and this is a good way for you to spend some quality gaming time with your children
Have a great holiday!
There is a grade one level module posted and a number of people have downloaded it over the last few months. I'd love some feedback and this is a good way for you to spend some quality gaming time with your children
Have a great holiday!
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Posté 30 décembre 2010 - 11:20
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I am also in the process of planning to use NWN2 for educational purposes. My students are Year 10 (14-15 yo) English students and I aim to have up to 20 of them interacting in a campaign world (10 PCs at a time) learning as they go. Due to licensing needs I have restricted my development to NWN2 and not with SoZ or MotB and so I am unable to comment much on your module - it crashes at points and does not support some SoZ textures.
But, for what it's worth...(if any are SoZ related, just ignore them!) None of these are meant to be negative in intent. I could only get to walk around the library. The concept seems to be really good from what I can see and I really hope the kids enjoy learning in this way.
- Add a campaign description (New Campaign screen)
- the opening scene is a bit 'strange' IMO because of the low camera angle and because there is no-one speaking to the PC when they are asked the violence/no violence question
- the librarian is carrying a torch in a lit room (dangerous for books!)
- Oden is carrying an axe - why?
- the lighting effects are 'off' to me. One reason is because lights shine through walls in NWN2 (put torches on outer walls) and because the light is placed on the apex of the torch - move the light slightly ahead of the torch to get a better shadow (or turn off shadows?) I would have some chandaliers with muted light and remove the torches from the inner walls (and the librarian).
- could there be happier/lighter music in the start area? (Grade 1-ers)
- load screens are a good idea but seem out of place to me. Even a border with more of a 'fantasy' feel would lessen this.
- there is a 'rogue' fire effect that should be deleted (near a wall)
Cheers and good luck with your venture.
But, for what it's worth...(if any are SoZ related, just ignore them!) None of these are meant to be negative in intent. I could only get to walk around the library. The concept seems to be really good from what I can see and I really hope the kids enjoy learning in this way.
- Add a campaign description (New Campaign screen)
- the opening scene is a bit 'strange' IMO because of the low camera angle and because there is no-one speaking to the PC when they are asked the violence/no violence question
- the librarian is carrying a torch in a lit room (dangerous for books!)
- Oden is carrying an axe - why?
- the lighting effects are 'off' to me. One reason is because lights shine through walls in NWN2 (put torches on outer walls) and because the light is placed on the apex of the torch - move the light slightly ahead of the torch to get a better shadow (or turn off shadows?) I would have some chandaliers with muted light and remove the torches from the inner walls (and the librarian).
- could there be happier/lighter music in the start area? (Grade 1-ers)
- load screens are a good idea but seem out of place to me. Even a border with more of a 'fantasy' feel would lessen this.
- there is a 'rogue' fire effect that should be deleted (near a wall)
Cheers and good luck with your venture.
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Posté 03 janvier 2011 - 12:52
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Thanks El Condoro.
Getting students to make their own mods and interacting through them is my end goal. I can visualize grade 4 and 5 students making mods for each other and for younger children. Is that what you do with the grade 10's?
Too bad you can't use SoZ... there is a treant talking to you in the library and he shows up again later to help recap and consolidate.
Thanks for the notes on lighting, music and the axe. I didn't even notice that he still had it
Good luck with your project too. (Is it in Canada?)
Getting students to make their own mods and interacting through them is my end goal. I can visualize grade 4 and 5 students making mods for each other and for younger children. Is that what you do with the grade 10's?
Too bad you can't use SoZ... there is a treant talking to you in the library and he shows up again later to help recap and consolidate.
Thanks for the notes on lighting, music and the axe. I didn't even notice that he still had it
Good luck with your project too. (Is it in Canada?)
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Posté 03 janvier 2011 - 07:04
Eguintir Eligard
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Leave it to teachers to ruin anything fun by turning it to educational use.
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Posté 03 janvier 2011 - 02:27
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El Condoro is from Australia, the lend dahn undah. I'm still hoping to get him a little assist from Obsidian, but apparently they are pretty busy atm.
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Posté 03 janvier 2011 - 11:06
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The best part about this is that we're only an email away, even across the world! When I get my grade 10 one underway, I'll see if we can get our classes to skype with each other.
