ScriptEase for Neverwinter Nights

Downloads Download ScriptEase for Neverwinter Nights SE Winter 2009 Beta Version (SEsetup-w2009beta.exe). SE 1.8.1 Stable Version (SEsetup-1.8.1.exe). Revision history will be posted later. IMPORTANT: If you have created your own atoms and patterns in a previous version of ScriptEase using the Encounter Designer or Atom Designer, you MUST export them and back up your module before opening it in ScriptEase 1.3 or later. Download individual components: ScriptEase Winter 2009 Beta Program (ScriptEase_w2009beta.jar). Linux and Mac users will want to download this file instead of the installer. Please consult these instructions. Tutorials for ScriptEase Winter 2009 Beta Tutorial: Making Your World (World.pdf) , the world building tutorial Tutorial: Making Your World Work (WorldWork.pdf) , the basic encounter pattern tutorial Tutorial: Making Your World Interesting (WorldInteresting.pdf) , the advanced conversation tutorial Tutorial: Making Your World Leverly (WorldLeverly.pdf) , the condition and plot token tutorial Tutorial: Making Your World Fleshy (WorldFleshy.pdf) , the behaviour pattern tutorial Tutorial: Making Your World Story-worthy (WorldStoryworthy.pdf) , the quest pattern tutorial ScriptEase 1.8.1 Program (ScriptEase.jar). Tutorial for ScriptEase 1.8.1 Tutorial: ScriptEase and NWN Aurora Toolset (Tutorial.doc) Map: The map of the castle used by the tutorial. (Maps.doc) Empty Castle Module (Toolset Tutorial) (CastleEmpty.mod). Depending on your browser's behavior, you may not be asked to save your module when you click on the module link; in this case, right-click on the link and then choose "Save Target As...". Save this module in the NWN/modules folder. Full Castle Module (Finished Toolset Tutorial) (CastleFull.mod). Save this module in the NWN/modules folder. Scripted Castle Module (Finished ScriptEase Tutorial) (CastleFullSE.mod). Save this module in the NWN/modules folder. ScriptEase Making a module for a game like BioWare's Neverwinter Nights is a new way of telling a story, and has its own set of challenges. Instead of readers, you have players who want to feel as though they actively participate in the story. One way to do this is to present your players with a world that they interact with, instead of one they just pass through. ScriptEase is a tool designed to complement Bioware's Aurora Toolset. With Aurora, you construct the world the players will adventure in, and with ScriptEase you bring it to life. About the Team ScriptEase is being developed by researchers from two research groups in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta, the Games group and the Software Systems group. The goal of the ScriptEase project is to support module builders (storytellers) and game designers in automatically generating scripts for computer role-playing stories, without programming. Current Participants The project is led by two faculty members, Jonathan Schaeffer and Duane Szafron, who have previous experience in computer games and automatic code generation projects. Michael Carbonaro joins the project from the Department of Educational Psychology. Maria Cutumisu is a PhD graduate student in Computing Science. Neesha Desai, Christopher Kerr, Marcus Trenton, Yi Yang, and Richard Zhao are M.Sc. students in Computing Science. Jason Duncan, Josh Friesen, Allan Schumacher, and Jeff Siegel are programmer analysts. Robin Miller is a B.Sc. student in Computing Science. Past Participants: Ana Alcantara was a writer. Stephie Cadek, Graeme Haugen, and Joyce Lam were high-school summer interns. Stephanie Gillis is a teacher in Edmonton and wrote the current crop of ScriptEase tutorials. Sabrina Kratchmer worked with the ScriptEase team as a WISEST summer student. Matthew McNaughton was a programmer analyst in the Computing Science department. He is currently working on his PhD in robotics at CMU. Curtis Onuczko was a MSc graduate student in Computing Science. Dominique Parker was a programmer-analyst in the Computing Science department and went on to work at Electronic Arts. John Peters was an NSERC summer student. Emma Rapati was a B.Sc. summer student. James Redford worked on ScriptEase as an M.Sc. graduate student, and is now at BioWare. Thomas Roy was an IIP (intern) programmer analyst. Lisa Stewart wrote the original tutorial for the first release of ScriptEase. Kevin Waugh was an IIP programmer analyst. Danielle Wiebe was a WISEST student. Feedback Please send feedback to scriptease@cs.ualberta.ca. Or, if you have a BioWare forums account, post to the ScriptEase topic in the NWN Scripting forum. If you use ScriptEase to script a module, please send us the name of the module, the author(s) name, a web-link to the module and an indication of what percentage of the scripting in the module was generated using ScriptEase (for example 100% means no scripts were added by hand) and we will include it in our ScriptEase Module list. Modules Scripted with ScriptEase Pageturner.mod - The ScriptEase Tutorial Module, by Lisa Stewart - 100% Brass-Key.zip - by Duane Szafron - 100% MyShortStoryNolan.mod - by Nolan Fidler - 100% Other Links Previous ScriptEase Tutorial (SEtutorialweb.pdf) Previous NWN Aurora Toolset Tutorial (toolsettutorialweb.pdf) Lilac Soul's NWN Script Generator