Sword has died. Pen has gained a level!

Wrote some more of the dialogue today. It’s going great. The plot ends up taking some interesting turns, and I think you’ll really like the direction it ends up going. Yes, you, specifically. You know who you are.

Before I go let’s talk about this great thing called the internet, just for kicks. I’m sure you’ve all read opinion after whiny opinion on the net neutrality act, and I stand exactly where everyone else who’s sane and who appreciates the constitution does. Without net neutrality, I wouldn’t even be able to post this blog and have you read it without me paying your ISP extra money so it would load. I think this bill is rediculous, a way to separate the rich from the poor and give the internet over to people who will end up destroying it with biased news broadcasts and Communist-like control over everything. If anyone has ever seen or read V for Vendetta, you know what a world with censorship and control over everything is like. This country was built on freedom, the freedom to call someone a nub if I so desire. Speaking of nubs, do we even know what kind of effect this will have on MMO’s? Information is one thing, but people in Congress seem to be forgetting that millions of people every day are doing Molten Core over and over again just so they can afford new equipment. And what will happen if the internet is on two tiers? You won’t even be able to log on to go to Warsong Gulch and play CTF with your Tier 1. The full consequences of turning the internet into a high class, white, Christian Yacht Club would be catostrophic. Sure we’d still all have our yachts, but why should anyone have to race with tattered sails?

SAVE THE INTERNET!

The mandatory crappy first post

Greetings to anyone who’s been bothering to pay attention to DanAvision Software Entertainment, DeviateSoft, or NightRise over the past five years. That’s right, I said five years and I’m not kidding. I’ve really been working on it for that long. Most of it has to do with designing it, writing dialogue and the like. Now that an actual team has started to form for it, the world will definitely see the first chapter, After the End, sometime in the next couple of years hopefully. No specific release date yet, I don’t do release dates. I like surprises, and I like surprising you. So one day you will wake up to find out that, low and behold, you can download the first chapter of NightRise to your very own PC and play it to your heart’s content. As of right now it will most likely be Source or Unreal 3 powered. The abilities and limitations of both will have to be researched very deeply. The third draft of the script is going great and Chapter 1 should be completed with plenty of time to spare. The bad news is I have no way, as of right now, of promising Chapters 2 and 3. There’s a whole bunch of legal issues involving the engines we’d be using, especially if we decide to go the oh-so-beautiful route of Unreal 3, but when that time comes we’ll find a way around it. For now, wish us luck on Chapter 1. It’s gonna be a heck of a ride.