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 | composed: 06-11-2021 04:32 |
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###**Job Postings**###
Interior Worldbuilders: We recently got a new interior worldbuilder, Hyena of Doom. We are making good progress, but we could always make more! According to Zini, once you get the object lists down, doing a few decent house interiors an hour is par for the course.
Writers: I have a good-natured rant. Every month I get roughly 3 people who want to help write. I process their applications. We accept one to work on dungeons, or other areas. And I get a few e-mails. And then I get nothing. So when I say I want a dedicated writer who I can work with, despite my working 70 hours a week as a Ph.D. student and part-time lecturer leaving U9R to occupy my 11pm-1:30am hours, I do emphatically mean dedicated.
I want someone who can bust out a simple set of interesting NPC's for a few remaining dungeons. Give me your judgmental unicorns, your trolls, your random human adventurers wandering in the dark for weeks at a time looking for love in all the wrong places. Just...just write. And post to the team forum. The names become strobe lights on a dance floor after awhile.
Here's the latest news.
###**Update**###
*Direhaggis: I'm not going to get too ecstatic about it...but...I am about 10 hours away from finishing writing the main plot. I just need to do the last few scenes, the 'main' ending, and then that is that. I'm also working with Zini to write tutorials for all of the skills that can be done in game. The alchemy skill is pretty cool, for instance.
*Zini: Working on level-up scripts; re-balancing a few of the 8 classes to be more distinctive; implementation; and various odds and ends. He is also working on a mini-dungeon. It involves vermin. And pie. Okay. No pie.
*Spyder: Custom interiors for undisclosed and highly awesome locations.
Hyena of Doom: Interior worldbuilding for an undisclosed and moderately depressing but also cool location.
Jacar: Doing interiors for yet another undisclosed but not depressing so much as wistful and fairly cold location. This also involves no pie, but potentially squash.
LSD: Nearly finished with all of the rest of the NPC's for Britain proper. The sheer variety and number is staggering. Fortunately, like a good chunk of U9R, there is about as much or as little as you want to explore re: side quests and just background story. LSD will be moving on to help me flesh out the rest of Buc's Den and Vesper. So we've got the (forgive me) Arrr-rated ([/forgive me]) island and the crazy artists stuck in the desert angles nailed.
Sage: Finishing the outskirts of Britain, the Lycaeum, and assorted other projects.
Various Writers: I have a few people who work on U9R, well, remotely. They are working on several dungeons for the game. I'm not entirely sure if they come around to the forum, and if so what their forum names are, but they are out there--and in theory they are writing dungeon NPC's.
They say that love is more precious than the air we breath, than the force of gravity, than the wind that pulls the leaves from the trees in the Fall, than the illusions we foster. -- Joe Frank (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDhSumYSp7U)
Direhaggis
Lead Writer/Editor
2D Art
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| Message:
| composed: 06-11-2021 22:58 |
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Paul 
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| Favourite Ultima: Ultima 6 The False Prophet |
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Good to hear that you folks are still chugging along.
Shame to hear about the writers, though. That seems to be the general story for free projects - you always get people with good intentions but no time or will to follow through. I've seen the exact problem on the volunteer projects that I've worked on in the past. That kind of thing is the exact reason I didn't volunteer for anything, because I know I don't have the free time to be dedicated.
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| Message:
| composed: 07-11-2021 00:26 |
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Fred-A.
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Yes - I'm in exactly the same position as Paul and I am similarly not going to volunteer for any work I'm not absolutly certain I can do. However DH's news remains very positive and encouraging. There are further positive signs that completion day is approaching and is going to be achieved. Great news everyone.
Fred
Try XYZZY - it might work!
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| composed: 13-11-2021 00:05 |
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Let me survive till I finish my first internship year, then I´ll try to help you matey. Harrrrr. If I was able to write a quest, NPC's will go along nicely.
I´m getting home sick...
- The Traveller -
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| composed: 16-11-2021 07:13 |
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-Direhaggis-
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I'm excited to report that we have several new writers who are eagerly posting to the forum (yay!) or coordinating with me.
Direhaggis
Lead Writer/Editor
2D Art
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