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#1 -Advocate Negativism-

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 12:33 AM

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Date posted: January 27, 2009

Help offered: Writing dialogue, creating items, helping with ideas, proofreading, voicing

Details: I am a decent writer in the Baldur's Gate/Planescape setting with plenty of practice, yet not the opportunity to show it as of yet. I would be happy to help write dialogue.
I have also taught myself how to create new items with NearInfinity (lovely during my games, so why not during yours?).
I am not the best English writer in the world, but I can give advice on how your dialogues come across, and how I would put them, etc.
If you are in need of creative advice in your project, mayhap I can be of some assistance. I am a creative spirit and am full of ideas.
I can voice a little. Granted, it's not my strong point, but I can try.

I currently live in Denmark and am available at various times throughout the week. It's hard for me to say when exactly I will be online or behind my computer, or how much work I have to do before I can focus on the pleasure of these tasks.

Aside from a few nights out, I have nothing planned for the nearby future. Yes, a vacation in June, but it's a little far away to be mentioning that now, hm?

#2 Jarno Mikkola

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 01:56 AM

Well, we could always use your input here. Just read the thread first... :whistling:

But as we don't really know you so well yet, build your resume, I would suggest to check here, and make all kinds of crazy suggestions... or join in on the artist and writing... or link us.
Take these as suggestions, you don't need to... but it's always helpful.

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#3 -Advocate Negativism-

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 10:43 PM

In other words, one has to prove they are worthy of helping out with the mod of another. I have read many topics here, and on other boards, and I strongly get the idea you folks are making it extremely difficult for a new user to do anything related to mod creation.

One apparently has to hang around this community and participate in jolly chat about nothing, giving opinions and kudos wherever, and showing off their skills.... Make friends that way, and finally be allowed to help out a little, which of course is generally considered the best step to creating one's own mod, which can be finished with the help of said friends gained through many years of participation in the community.

Gentlemen, I simply do not have that kind of time. :)
I tip my hat and bid you farewell.

Cheers!

#4 berelinde

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 11:44 PM

Uh, no. Sorry if you got that impression. Folks will generally take any help they can get, especially with regards to proofreading and especially voicing. And I don't know too many modders that would turn down the offer of folks making items for them.

I have no idea what link Jarno posted. I can only suppose it was to the Resource Request forum.

People post "help wanted" posts all the time. I'm sure there are plenty of people who can use your talents. I've got a NWN2 mod on the less-than-a-week event horizon, and I'm looking for playtesters/proofreaders.

The best way to get involved is to be involed. If you see something that interests you, volunteer. You'll seldom be turned away.

If you're an "ideas person", post to threads that are looking for feedback. Pretty much anything in the Mod Ideas forum will work. Folks are posting there because they want to hear what you have to say.

Generally, folks do their own writing, but you never know, you might find someone who's looking for a writer.

But definitely, no offer of proofreading will go unappreciated, if you offer your help to modders. I've got a slew of stuff waiting. It's all NWN2, at this point, since I haven't done BG2 modding in just about a year. I'm a native English speaker with relatively good grammar, so I'm basically looking for stuff that's spelled wrong or doesn't read as proper to a non-native English speaker, but I'm sure you get the idea.

Just don't go away mad.

If you'd like to voice some stuff, might I suggest recording a few lines? Perhaps recite a poem and post it? Or, even better, visit the PC soundsets forum, where you get to write your own soundset and voice it. I can't even begin to tell you how much fun that was. I did something like four, and I wish I had time to do more. It was a lot of fun. I want to voice some of the male-only ones, especially the half-orc soundset, but I just don't have the time. You might prefer a sexier one, but I've always had a thing for half-orcs. OK, I'm sick. Anyway...

Anyway, the point is, there are a lot of places that can use your talents. Folks might not seek you out. You might have to poke a bit. But you can be assured that people will be very, very happy when you find them.

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#5 Jarno Mikkola

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Posted 28 January 2009 - 12:46 AM

I have no idea what link Jarno posted. -... to the Mod Ideas forum will work. Folks are posting there because they want to hear what you have to say.

That's the reason why I linked there, and to the mod I am currently coding. ...and to other places that people see one another.

Now, the Internet is about community, you have to understand that people need to be able to know you before they can trust you... and if you don't have the time to get be known, you probably don't have the time to do the actual work either. -_-
Unless I am totally wrong... :P

Now, if you got the impression that you should make idle chat about nothing... then you read that wrong, or more likelly you already have such a perception of the IE forums. :ph34r:
Now, as every opinion on every board here is read at least by somebody, one can gain a lot out of the idle chat, but it does change the world, when it comes to asking help.
... you should actually know the person you are talking/offering_help to.

As I have not heard any reply to my request for your input. :shifty:

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 28 January 2009 - 12:49 AM.

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Posted 29 January 2009 - 04:15 AM

In other words, one has to prove they are worthy of helping out with the mod of another. I have read many topics here, and on other boards, and I strongly get the idea you folks are making it extremely difficult for a new user to do anything related to mod creation.

One apparently has to hang around this community and participate in jolly chat about nothing, giving opinions and kudos wherever, and showing off their skills.... Make friends that way, and finally be allowed to help out a little, which of course is generally considered the best step to creating one's own mod, which can be finished with the help of said friends gained through many years of participation in the community.

Gentlemen, I simply do not have that kind of time. :)
I tip my hat and bid you farewell.

Cheers!


I strongly disagree. I have helped modders both old and new with their mods. We have added members to the CA Team with as little as four posts. If the person has skills which match a mod teams needs I am confident that they can find a group who would happily welcome them. That is why SHS has this forum for mod teams and modders, with or without experience to help find each other.

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#7 Thanatos.

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Posted 30 January 2009 - 11:47 PM

if you don't have the time to get be known, you probably don't have the time to do the actual work either. -_-


Exactly.

#8 Kulyok

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Posted 31 January 2009 - 03:10 AM

Woo-hoo, Moongaze is back!

#9 Thanatos.

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Posted 02 February 2009 - 12:18 AM

If Advocate Whatshisface is that guy, then not really.

#10 SConrad

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Posted 02 February 2009 - 03:35 AM

It is as Kulyok says. We recently discovered that Moongaze was back, as "Advocate Negativism," "Death Folder" and "Phantasmagoria."

Because the accounts are in violation with the board guidelines which state that members aren't allowed more than one, and because he has (once again) attempted to circumvent a ban, all of the above accounts have been deleted. The ban is still enforced and will remain so until further notice.

This forum exists for people to offer and ask for help, and since clearly Moongaze will do neither, there is no point in keeping this topic open.

If anyone would like the story retold, or would like to discuss it further, the RecRoom would be a suitable place for a new thread. :)

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