{"id":145,"date":"2009-02-22T10:09:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T18:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ame-gda.net\/ame-home\/?p=145"},"modified":"2009-02-22T10:09:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T18:09:40","slug":"looking-back-at-2008-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/news\/looking-back-at-2008-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at 2008 (ii)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The review of 2008 continues&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.ame-gda.net\/ame-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/2007-golden-dragon-award-vault-tag.JPG' title='2007 Tag'><img src='http:\/\/www.ame-gda.net\/ame-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/2007-golden-dragon-award-vault-tag.JPG' alt='2007 Tag' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#699;\"><strong>June<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Big news! After 210 votes the 35 finalists were wittled down; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ame-gda.net\/ame-home\/?page_id=85\">the NWN2 Golden Dragon winners<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#699;\"><strong>July<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>We returned for our second public IRC chat, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ame-gda.net\/forums\/index.php?topic=306.0.html\">community questions for the nominees of the NWN1 awards<\/a>, including such weighty matters as how to model for ninjaweaselman&#8217;s animations. The chat generated a long free for all, including some attempts to get a winner modding group together&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Finally I manage to track down Fester Pot for our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ame-gda.net\/forums\/index.php?topic=293.0.html\">final 2006 Golden Dragon winner interview<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n<p><\/center><center><a href='http:\/\/www.ame-gda.net\/ame-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/2007-golden-dragon-award-vault-tag.JPG' title='2007 Tag'><img src='http:\/\/www.ame-gda.net\/ame-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/2007-golden-dragon-award-vault-tag.JPG' alt='2007 Tag' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even bigger news was the release of the NWN1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ame-gda.net\/ame-home\/?page_id=92\">2007 Golden Dragon Winners!<\/a>. 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.<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The review of 2008 continues&#8230; 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 [&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-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","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=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ame-gda.andarian.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}