Posted Thursday, April 17, 2003 - 23:16 CET by Mollusken

Neverwinter Vault has posted an interview with community member SuTech on their D20 Modern project which aims to introduce modern day elements into Neverwinter Nights. Here's a short taste on the questions and answers:

Could you give us an overview of what the D20 Modern Mod team is all about?

We are all about expanding the resources of NWN to include tools to help people make games set in modern and sci-fi settings. There is not a whole lot of multiplayer modern based computer RPG's out there. So members on the team are all working together towards one shared vision while supporting each other's work. Whether it's the members on the team working on a Fallout genre or one person on the team working towards a Dune setting. Fantasy can only go so far, but with modern and sci-fi tools, expandability is limitless.

Could you tell us what resources you have put together so far and at what stage you consider them at?

I'm sure many people who have download the complete or different HAK packs for the Alpha version of the mod, awed at some of the work. I still awe at the skyscrapers Geekfiend did for us. But the two releases were more meant for proof of concepts and to see what kind of response was generated. So the different haks were all in a beginning stage. Somewhat playable for small groups with a host who knows who to set up their dialog.tlk and other files and where they belong.

The team itself has finally gotten past the "How do we share things" phase. That's always the hardest part when you have a team composed of people from all over the world. We use our forum and site extensively and another member has volunteered to run a part time FTP server to help distribute files internally.