{"id":1467,"date":"2003-06-16T14:31:46","date_gmt":"2003-06-16T19:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2003-06-16T14:31:46","modified_gmt":"2003-06-16T19:31:46","slug":"and-there-goes-my-free-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1467","title":{"rendered":"And there goes my free time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the big news from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macminute.com\/2003\/06\/16\/macsoft\">www.macminute.com<\/a> is that the Mac version of <a href=\"http:\/\/nwn.bioware.com\/about\/macversion.html\">Neverwinter Nights<\/a> is due to come out with a &#8220;Beta Tech Demo&#8221; tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>It was supposed to have come out around Christmas time.  Last year.  I don&#8217;t know what the delay was from, and frankly I don&#8217;t much care&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been playing around with the PC version for a while, and even on my Fiancee&#8217;s slightly elderly Windows machine, it&#8217;s pretty keen.  We got the PC version because the Mac release isn&#8217;t going to have the developers toolset&#8230;  Personally, I think that&#8217;s a mistake, but since it&#8217;s taken this long to get the actual game out I can understand the company&#8217;s unwillingness to delay release any longer than necessary.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the game itself goes, I&#8217;ve been impressed by the interface.  The multiple camera angle option is a good thing&#8230;  It&#8217;s good to be able to zoom around to get the lay of the land, but it&#8217;s also handy to be able to snap back to your character&#8217;s point of view.  As far as the rest of the game goes, the radial menu system take a little while to get used to, but the combination of the menu and the &#8216;quick-slot&#8217; interface works rather well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post a more in-depth review once I get my hands on the beta&#8230;  Tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the big news from www.macminute.com is that the Mac version of Neverwinter Nights is due to come out with a &#8220;Beta Tech Demo&#8221; tomorrow. It was supposed to have come out around Christmas time. Last year. I don&#8217;t know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1467\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}