Hello Everyone,
Just thought I'd pop in and announce a pet project that I have started working on in my spare time called "NWN Cloud". Basically, I'm going to turn NWN into a truly extensive, MMO through the use of IaaS providers such as Amazon and Rackspace (starting with Amazon). Here is a short list of features:
- NWNX2 enabled to work with Postgresql
- Creates new servers, loads modules, and connects the newly created server to the currently active server.
- Characters available in any module loaded from the game, cross seemlessly from module to module with the same character
- Monitors servers and shuts them down when they become inactive after a set period of time.
- Easy to install, with very limited changes required to an existing module properties
- Web management portal makes sharing modules easier than ever before
To make this project even easier to use, I am going to make my work available as a 'community ami' on Amazon. All you have to do is launch the instance, upload your legitamately purchased copy of NWN, and activate the NWN Cloud engine, and the fun begins.
If anyone is interested in contributing, I'd be interested in working with a Scripter that knows how to do dynamic chat generation. I'd like to be able to make make modules loadable via chat conversations that are generated based on the content of a database table (thus allowing for modules to be added to the cloud and made available without reboot).
I'll keep ya'll posted if anyone is interested (and I'll post some youtube clips as well).
