Shane Neville

NRDland and Petra’s Call

July 15th, 2009

Things have been very quiet here at shaneneville.com. There are a lot of reasons – work, family, life. But the biggest reason is that I’ve been working on my next side project that is now live.

Ninja Robot Dinosaur (aka NRD) is my side-project company. And after a few false starts and aborted projects, my first NRD project is live: Petra’s Call.

Petra’s Call is a flash comic about a druid girl who wants nothing more than to hear the spirits of the forest so she can join the war against the cities.

Petra’s Call is an experiment in story-telling on the web (pacing, linking, format), teired narrative (linked wiki’s, hidden secrets) and process (producing a few pages of a fully colored and interactive comics with only a couple of hours a day to work on it).

Episodes 1 and 2 of Petra’s Call can be read at NRDland.com – please head over to the NRD Ansible forum and join the conversation.

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Gah!

March 4th, 2009

Wow – so I started following blogs who have been nothing but twitter updates – and well… I’m really sorry for doing what I’ve been doing on my blog. This is devastating to all 4 of my faithful readers (hi mom – please follow me on Twitter!).

While the blogging will be infrequent over the next little stretch (finalling a game, finalling side project – more on that soon and being a dad), I haven’t forgotten about my little home on the interwebs.

So – yeah – I just wanted to apologize for punishing you by giving you nothing but twitter updates. I’ve changed my settings and it’s going to stop now.

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Twittering Madness

February 27th, 2009

quiet day at the office #

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Twittering Madness

February 24th, 2009

this makes me happy to be in PEI http://tinyurl.com/bz3yfs #

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Twittering Madness

February 23rd, 2009

Crazy storm. Snow drift on deck is over the door handles. It only started 5 hours ago. #
is snowed in and the plows are only doing main roads. #
wishes he had a 4X4 right now. #
finally made it into the office. #