Chrysta Pre-History: Events and Developments Before March 17th 2005
Dear diary...
...bleh, enough of that cheesy nonsense. In case anyone isn't aware of the "Early Days of Chrysta", I thought I would just give some background. I had been involved with the BG series of games right from the first release of BG1, and was fairly active in the game community back then - I had even dabbled in minor script modding by releasing the first (buggy) versions of the Multiple Romance Scripts (yup, you can all blame me for opening that particular can of stuttering worms...). NPC mods were not exactly thick on the ground in those days - TeamBG were the Modding Kings, Kelsey and Solaufein ruled the NPC mod roost and Tashia and Chloe were the fresh young upstarts. In Summer 2002 I had the idea for "Chrysta", an NPC mod who in her first, embryonic incarnation I imagined simply as an escaped clone from Irenicus's dungeon. I started working on her, and a forum was opened on Forgotten Wars, but a couple of months into working on the mod I was forced by work circumstances to go and live with relatives in the country - where there was NO INTERNET!!! So Chrysta died a death, and I didn't even have a chance to say goodbye *sob*.
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Towards the end of last year, I found myself living back in more "civilised" surroundings. In mid-January 2005, more out of curiosity than expectation, I came back and said hello on the FW forums - and was extremely flattered and not a little surprised to find out that not only did a few of my fellow old fogeys recognise me (not mentioning any names hlidskialf
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Of course, I had a lot of catching up to do... WeiDU mods now dominated the scene, TeamBG had gone the way of the weredodo, and there were almost as many different modding communities now as there were mods! Plus I felt horrendously underqualified to start modding again - I had only just begun to code for myself (unsuccessfully) back in 2002, and had forgotten anything I had started to learn back then. Luckily, Sillara and nethrin over at Chosen of Mystra allowed me to help beta test their excellent Saerileth NPC mod, and I learned more by dissecting their code, scripts, dialogue files and TP2 file than I had from perusing weeks worth of tutorials.
Eventually, I felt confident enough to request that the Chrysta forum be resurrected - and so, on March 17th 2005, just a couple of months ago and thanks to the kind peeps here at Forgotten Wars, the Chrysta Mod and Chrysta Forums were reborn!
(Next Diary entry will be less reminiscence and more substance RE: actual mod developments, I promise!
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Comments, suggestions, feedback and inane blabber are all welcomed concerning any element of this Diary or mod development in general, and a Chrysta Developer Diary Comments thread exists for precisely that purpose.
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Edited by Sir Kalthorine, 19 September 2005 - 11:42 AM.