Cerea Island 2

Building of Cerea Island2 for NWN2 started
The work of building Cerea Island 2 PW for NWN2 has started with the background organisation, documentation and building of basics.

Cerea Island Server background
Cerea island Server has been around for soon three years, during that time it has grown to a place with more than 400 areas, with allmost all parts of the NWN system somehow tweaked.

World Background
The Module Cerea is based on an island Named Cerea in a Paper And Pen Roleplaying World that was first created in 1988 and has been the base of adventures since then. So there is quite a lot of background material. It has been heavily influenced by ICE’s Shadow world.

Preliminary schedule
Subject to change and be made more specific as things go forward, [Master Version of Schedule]

December 2005-January 2006: Basic definitions of systems, building guidelines and parts, intial prototyping of first base systems in NWN1. First wave of recruiting staff. Starting january make alpha versions for testing in NWN1.

February-March 2006: Making the skeletons of the most important base systems in NWN1. Integrating the building staff and building tools to help. Regular alpha versions with more and more of the systems in NWN1.

April-May 2006: Fleshing out the base systems and basic scripted quests and such. Second wave of recruiting staff, start building the "final versions" of lists of features that will be present at launch.

June 2006: final preparing things and polishing the information and system

(NWN2 is supposely to be launched about here in june, if that changes, schedule obviously changes)

July 2006: Building of basic areas and the actual items and creatures, according to earlier planned. Transfer of the quests and base systems. Regular beta versions(few a week) as systems are transfered to NWN2. The idea is tranfer and test things. At some point the public beta starts.

August 2006: Depending on how the integraton work and testing goes, the launch of the first public version likely somewhere during this month (with servervault wipe after beta)

Currently going on things
The basic writing of the building guidelines nearing finnish The first recruiting of people is going on.

Some likely questiona
Where can I learn more? [The Cerea2 master document] contains the background and planning material as it is written.

Why start the building process now?

Actually the background work has been going on for a while with low priority, but we are now going to work more and more into defining things more clearly and to start early phases of implementation in things that can be done beforehand.

Why join the team now?

A lot of things are in the planing and early implementation stages now, so if you want to effect the basics, now is the time.

What skills are needed?

Come and look at the [current list] Also if you think you could help in a way not listed in the list, feel free to contact us.

Contact
Any questions, comments, offers of help etc, email: cerea2@roto.nu or come discuss it in http://cerea.roto.nu/forums/ cerea1 forums