Neverwinter Nights

All the Icewind Dales are set there.

Neverwinter Nights, the whole thing.

All the Neverwinter Nights are set there.

Which there's...

And some of those games are freaking awesome.

We're all in 2D.

We, this is, um, definitely, uh, a, a big part that marks those early days is very much, you know, BioWare's, BioWare's toolmakers were making the games to make the ga- were making the things to make the games very much defines that all the way up through Neverwinter.

You could, you could use, you could put Neverwinter as a, as a pivot point because that's really where we fully shift to 3D.

Um, but I think it, Neverwinter probably marks the end of the first group.

It's like we're making tools and it cul- it culminates in we made a tool that we actually released to the public and, um, and, um, uh, and, and that's, uh, where, like that's what really defines that, that era.

In that ca- in those, in those early games, you know, we, we have the hints of character-driven storytelling, but we're... a lot of what's going on in those, th- in this time period is just we are making games that are giant, relatively thin I would say.

So you go to an area, you talk to the townspeople, you've killed all the giant rats, and then you leave never to return to this town.

There's a lot of, um, there's a lot of that in that era.

And, and being able to kind of twist that stuff and change things.

Like, I remember back in the day when we used to play on the, on the, the PC, um, Neverwinter Nights.

Did you ever play Neverwinter Nights?

Sure.

Yeah.

It was Aerolith.

It was a module for Neverwinter Nights, the video game.

And that was an extreme time sink because it's it's like a whole little simulated world that you can do all all the simulated things that you could actually be doing in real life for actual productive value but instead you do it in a video game with a bunch of nerds who also are getting no productive value out of it but no it was it was pretty popular uh at its time it was an extreme huge time sink like what are we talking

about per week as far as how many hours would you be investing in this