Twelve Days of SHS Releases Options

[K'aeloree]

Over the past 12 days, Spellhold Studios seen quite a number of announcements, releases and interviews - here's a quick list for reference, in order of release!

Announcements:

• Day 7 of 12: Xulaye NPC for BGII: SoA - evil, malicious Underdark-only Drow NPC
• Day 10 of 12: Faren NPC for BGII: SoA & ToB - laid back, friendly human fighter/thief NPC

Releases:

• Day 1 of 12: Fading Promises v1 - quest mod by berelinde
• Day 2 of 12: Baldur's Gate Trilogy-WeiDU v1.05b - by Ascension64
• Day 3 of 12: Nathaniel v4 - with added ToB content, by Feuille & Miss Sakaki
• Day 4 of 12: BGT-Tweaks v7 - tweakpack by Ascension64
• Day 5 of 12: Iylos v1 - NPC mod by K'aeloree
• Day 6 of 12: Lure of the Sirine's Call BGT v7.2 - quest conversion by Ascension64
• Day 7 of 12: Indira NPC v10.3 - NPC conversion by Ascension64
• Day 7 of 12: Big Picture v177a - with French and Spanish translations, by Chevalier
• Day 9 of 12: IEP Extended Banters v1 - new Bioware banters for SoA!
• Day 11 of 12: The Luxley Family v1 - two new NPCs from Feuille & Miss Sakaki
• Day 12 of 12: Sylmar Battlefield v1 - tactical/combat mod by Zyraen
• Day 12 of 12: One Pixel Productions: Flaming Swords v1 - adds actual flaming swords, by Erephine
• Day 12 of 12: PC Soundsets v1 - adds 22 new PC soundsets to the game
• Day 12 of 12: Classic Adventures 0.45 - new, combined release by SirBillyBob, leahnkain and Celestine

Interviews:

• Day 3 of 12: Interview with SConrad
• Day 4 of 12: Interview with Bookwyrme
• Day 6 of 12: Interview with Azazello
• Day 8 of 12: Interview with Zyraen
• Day 10 of 12: Interview with Feuille & Miss Sakaki

We hope you've enjoyed Christmas and the New Year!

:cheers:

This post has been edited by K'aeloree: Jan 6 2008, 08:38 AM

[tatyana]

wow!! I enjoyed it!!
where you get those??

[Baronius]

From the Zyraen interview:

Don’t be 100% bug-free. Otherwise your forum will be dead for months and months and months on end, like mine, no matter how much fun the people have playing it.

I suppose this advice is meant to be a joke.

Joke or not, it's very true. Except for certain very special, big mods such as Improved Anvil -- in this case, the number of total bug reports is negligible (and the number of serious bugs is practically zero) so the forum traffic actually consists of a lot of useful and/or interesting reports & discussions, and topics about what and how to add to the next release.

P.S.: of course, if there are other buggy mods (insufficient testing or not good methodology), they might cause traffic on the forums of bug-free mods as well (so this disproves Zyraen's words a bit), because sometimes compatibility of two mods is stated too early, without care. Players then come, and post bug reports on the forum of those mods which are not responsible for the bug.