{"id":144,"date":"2009-02-21T13:16:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T21:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ame-gda.net\/ame-home\/?p=144"},"modified":"2009-02-24T10:13:15","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T18:13:15","slug":"looking-back-at-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/news\/looking-back-at-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at 2008&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.ame-gda.net\/ame-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ame_logo.jpg' title='AMe Logo'><img src='http:\/\/www.ame-gda.net\/ame-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ame_logo.thumbnail.jpg' alt='AMe Logo' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center>Since we&#8217;re now deep in the 2008 nominations cycle, I thought I&#8217;d take a time-out, and take a look at some of the highlights from last year for the Academy&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#699;\"><strong>January<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>After a time on our temporary home hosted by the Review Guild, AME moves to it&#8217;s brand spanking new website, designed and implemented by AME guru Qkrch. What more need I say &#8211; you&#8217;re looking at it now!<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#699;\"><strong>February <\/strong><\/div>\n<p>With the members of AME now slaving over their nominations, the public forums went silent for a couple of months&#8230; much like this year!<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#699;\"><strong>April<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>In the first of several awesome videos led by Qkrch, the inaugural <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ame-gda.net\/ame-home\/?page_id=64\">nominations for NWN2 were released<\/a>. Leading the charge for awards were Wyrin D&#8217;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).<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#699;\"><strong>May<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>May saw the release of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ame-gda.net\/ame-home\/?page_id=72\">NWN1 Golden Dragon nominations<\/a> 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?<\/p>\n<p>In our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ame-gda.net\/forums\/index.php?topic=247.0.html\">first ever public IRC chat<\/a>, 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&#8230;<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>More to come&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we&#8217;re now deep in the 2008 nominations cycle, I thought I&#8217;d take a time-out, and take a look at some of the highlights from last year for the Academy&#8230; January After a time on our temporary home hosted by the Review Guild, AME moves to it&#8217;s brand spanking new website, designed and implemented by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}