Posted on 2009 under News |
23
Feb
Our look back at 2008 continues…
August
August saw a furious burst of NWN2 winner interview posting, culminating with an interview with Zach Holbrook, a double Golden Dragon winner for Best Sound and Debut Author with Harp & Chrysanthemum. All told, 8 NWN2 Golden Dragon winners granted us interviews.
Also in August we closed a poll of over 800 people on the most important Golden Dragon award that was running on the Vault. Topping the charts were Best Roleplaying Module, Best Adventure Module and Best Custom Content. If you think otherwise, why not vote on the poll here on the forums?
And all this while the olympics were going on!
September
Not content with written interviews with the Golden Dragon winners, we teamed up with NWNPodcast to produce a series of winner podcast interviews with several of the 2007 winners. We also got together with a number of the NWN2 winners for a public IRC chat and then followed that up with the NWN1 winners, which was a blast!
October
In October I took a break from looking at NWN works, and headed over to Edmonton, Canada, for a top secret look at Dragon Age. Together with a handful of other lucky NWN modders (including 3 Golden Dragon winners), we not only saw the game, but got a first exclusive hands-on with the toolset. I then returned to Greece and tried to keep my mouth shut for the next few weeks while I waited for Bioware to go public with the news!
December
In our final NWN1 Golden Dragon Award winner interview of the year, we tracked down savant, winner for Best Action Module with his final instalment of the Aielund Saga. His interview marked the final of 8 2007 NWN1 Golden Dragon winner interviews for the year.
The AME members then took some well deserved downtime, with a few of us heading over to the NWNPodcast for a roundtable, where we answered what we really get up to inside the private forums of AME!
I finished the year with something of a fall to earth though, following riots in Greece. But we all survived to make it to Christmas, and to gear up for…
The 2008 cycle!
Posted on 2009 under News |
22
Feb
The review of 2008 continues…
June
Big news! After 210 votes the 35 finalists were wittled down; the NWN2 Golden Dragon winners were announced! Highlights were a double win for Zach Holbrook and Adam Miller, whilst Alex Hugon completed his NWN 1/2 pair. Grinning Fool scooped the Community Contribution award, and Sorceress Ashura clinched the Custom Content award with a wonderful VFX pack.
July
We returned for our second public IRC chat, with community questions for the nominees of the NWN1 awards, including such weighty matters as how to model for ninjaweaselman’s animations. The chat generated a long free for all, including some attempts to get a winner modding group together…
Finally I manage to track down Fester Pot for our final 2006 Golden Dragon winner interview. He was late to the party, but forgiven, since he scooped two of the NWN1 2006 awards: Best Adventure and Debut Author. In 2008, his second module Shadewood also came out. The interview with Fester Pot was the 9th for the NWN1 Golden Dragon winners of 2006.
Even bigger news was the release of the NWN1 2007 Golden Dragon Winners!. After 258 votes, the 34 finalists had been culled to the final 11. The clutch of winners featured a second dragon for savant, a pair for the Citadel team, and second time lucky for Andarian and WoRm. On top axe_murderer took the coveted Community Contribution award, and Lance Botelle scooped the Debut Author award.
Posted on 2009 under News |
21
Feb
Since we’re now deep in the 2008 nominations cycle, I thought I’d take a time-out, and take a look at some of the highlights from last year for the Academy…
January
After a time on our temporary home hosted by the Review Guild, AME moves to it’s brand spanking new website, designed and implemented by AME guru Qkrch. What more need I say – you’re looking at it now!
February
With the members of AME now slaving over their nominations, the public forums went silent for a couple of months… much like this year!
April
In the first of several awesome videos led by Qkrch, the inaugural nominations for NWN2 were released. Leading the charge for awards were Wyrin D’njargo, Zach Holbrook and Adam Miller, whilst Alex Hugon was going for the distinction of taking a Golden Dragon Award for both NWN1 and NWN2 (in seperate years).
May
May saw the release of the NWN1 Golden Dragon nominations with Jim Grimsley featuring heavily, with 5 nominations. Coming back for a second try at gold from the previous year were also thegeorge, Andarian, WoRm and previous winner savant. But who was to go away empty handed?
In our first ever public IRC chat, we fielded questions from the community, and shot them straight at the NWN2 nominees, in a highly enjoyable chat. Getting a group of nominees in channel proved no easy task, and controlling them once there even harded, but the session was a great success, and so we planned to do a second one for the NWN1 nominees…
More to come…
Posted on 2009 under News |
7
Feb
In response to a question as to whether authors should be able to permanently withdraw their work from consideration, we recently polled the members. As a result of the poll, we have added the ability for authors to exclude themselves from consideration. The deadline for doing so is the end of February for the 2008 awards. Authors who wish to withdraw should message a current member and await confirmation, or post on the Golden Dragon Disucssion forums.
