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Shane suggested to me last night that we should contact the Deus Ex devs and get them to voice bit parts. At first I thought he was nuts, but now I think it might be an interesting idea. The worst they would do would be to say no. It might also be interesting to draw their collective attention to TNM, and possibly garner a mention in a blog or two.

If any of them agree, though, I suggest they would get their own NPC with 4-5 barks, which would be placed in in random location.

What do you guys think? If you like the idea, we'll need to gather some contact info.
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Cool idea, I hope it works out. Will you be contacting Warren Spector? Could you imagine if he did a line or two? We would be not kings but GODS in the eyes of the DX community.
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And that's exactly the kind of reference I'd avoid making when talking to the dx devs.
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I think it's a good idea but I don't have the guts to make the contact so you'll have to handle that. Who will be writing their lines?

We have several maps that could benefit from more minor characters. Especially Downtown.
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I have no problem emailing them.

I would think that you would write they're lines ;) I assume they would also be basically made pretty obvious as to who they were, ingame. So they're lines don't necessarily have to relate entirely to our game situation, although a blending of the two would be nice.
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NVShacker wrote:And that's exactly the kind of reference I'd avoid making when talking to the dx devs.
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I'll go meet someone in person! :P Can't be embarrassed to talk to people...
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Okay, so who do we want to try and contact?

Warren Spector
Harvey Smith
Sheldon Pacotti
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I suggest Al Yarusso (as an apology for us calling his code crap in public), Alex Brandon, and Steve Powers (my personal hero of level design).
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If that happens...:-D
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Oh we should probably ask Chris Norden too, if we can find him.
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I want to pry into the skull of one of the mappers of DX. They did some strange stuff... lol
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Monte Martinez and Jay Lee. Warren said those two along w/ Pacotti and Smith were the main 4 developers on DX.
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lemme talk to one of them! :P

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We have to find their emails, first :p
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