Open Source Data Access
Yahoo! News reported about Adobe Open-Sourcing Data Access Technology. Though interesting, the technology is not immediately useful, because it has many other components (Adobe’s, of course) tied to it, including the new AIR, Flex, and Flash. It should be immediately pretty, and feels more like an application, so it will be really sassy to marketeers [...]
NWN eXtender 4 (beta) for NWN2
After 6 months of waiting, NWNX4 has finally reached beta! The NWN eXtender has been an essential add-on program (plug-in) to those of us who intend to make persistent world out of NWN. Acting as a game state viewer, it allowed a peek into the game engine, and extraction of certain variables from the game [...]
Peter Gorniak (MIT)
Peter Gorniak, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is probably the first person who used NWN as a research platform. He originally conceived it as Situated Speech Understanding (you can read his thesis proposal here) but eventually turned it into Affordance-Based Concept [ABC] (you can read his thesis here). Some of his other writing [...]
Database-Driven Persistent World
The Database-Driven Persistent World (DDPW) Project was conceived as a response to the difficulties that were being encountered by Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) fans who either lacked the required technical knowledge or simply did not have the massive amonts of time required to create a decent Neverwinter Nights (NWN) module which would take a short [...]
