The Adventure Building Challenge is now opening a call to NWN's talented, innovative and industrious creators of custom content to sponsor its upcoming building cycle, currently scheduled to begin next month.
If you are not familiar with the Adventure Building Challenge, it is a periodic exercise in which participants are challenged to create a complete and playable module adventure in a very limited period of time (typically one month). A kind of NWN game jam, it is loosely modeled on the Custom Content Challenge. See this thread for more information.
It is a tradition of the ABC that participants are restricted in the CC that can be used in the modules submitted, being mainly limited to sponsored hakpaks, which is to say, hakpaks that have been specifically offered for use in the ABC by the CC authors who created those hakpaks. This serves the dual purpose of limiting the focus of the module makers, keeping their ambitions confined to a project suitable for the short time period, and (or so it is hoped) also helping out makers of CC currently active in the community, giving them a chance to advertise some of what they are doing and perhaps even giving them an opportunity to see what practical uses it can be put to by module builders.
A list of sponsored content was generated for the initial ABC cycle, and the ABC has been using it ever since. However, this list was on the old vault (and thus is not readily accesible as of this writing), and was in need of updating anyway. It would therefore seem to be a good time to make a new list.
To be a sponsor, all that is necessary is that:
1) you be the author (or spokesman of the team in the case of CC produced by a group) of a hakpak currently available for download.*
2) you announce your intention to be a sponsor, along with the specific hakpaks (preferably with links included) that you are offering, in this thread (alternatively you can PM me with the same information, if for some reason you prefer that, and I will announce your sponsorship myself). If you are a very prolific producer of CC, it would be preferable that you put forward no more than several hakpaks (in the interest of keeping the focus limited), but that is not strictly required.
I look forward with eagerness to seeing what CC will be available for the next ABC cycle. Thanks in advance for your assistance.
*I realize that the troubles with the old vault mean that the number of authors who have something immediately ready for download has been sadly if temporarily reduced. I had hoped to put off this post until either those troubles were resolved or definitively determined to be permanent, but it does not look like either is going to happen any time soon, and we must go on regardless. Therefore, if you are a CC author and have not yet transferred your work to the new vault, this might be a good time to do that.
