Just a quick heads-up for some of the things we have coming at AME over the next few days. First of all, we hope to soon have posted our first Golden Dragon Award Winner interview. It is our aim (no pun intended) to have an interview with each of 2006’s winners, assuming we can track them all down!

We’ll also be posting some rule clarifications on what happens when judging works that have been submitted to the Vault, yet remained in beta for a long time.

Lastly, there’ll be some news on the Community Contribution and Sound Award categories, so track back here!

Noticed that little Blogroll list on the right that is currently empty and inactive? Well, we’re thinking of opening it up, not just for AME member blogs, but also for community bloggers. If you’d like to get a link to your blog posted in the roll, you need to:

• Spend at least half of your blogging time talking about relevant NWN or NWN2 stuff – be it building your own module, latest news or whatever. We want to make sure the blogs listed here are relevant.
• Be a registered member of our forums, plus include a link to AME on your blog site. This is to ensure you are a bone fide community member.
• Write a non-defamatory, non-racist, non-sexist, etc (you get the rest) blog. We will be reading them from time to time, and we ask everyone to notify us of unsuitable blogs that are linked to from the AME site.

We’re also considering link swaps with relevant sites. For those that are interested in either option, please PM BenWH on the forums.

As we kick off for the 2007 award cycle, we have now moved to our brand new home here, complete with our own set of forums. The site was designed for us by AME member Qkrch, with supporting artworks from Steve Goad and Michael Darkangel. We hope you like it! As a first step, we hope you’ll click on that forums link, get registered, and start sharing your views with us on everything NWN, NWN2 and Golden Dragon related!

We’re certainly glad to have a home of our own, though it’s a bittersweet farewell to the Reviewers Guild Forums, who have been so good as to host us for the last 8 months. Our thanks to you.

Welcome to the Academy for Modding Excellence (AME).

The 2006 Golden Dragon Awards for Neverwinter Nights have been released! You can see the full list here:

NWN 2006 Golden Dragon Award winners…