Previous News09.25.2006 - Isabel Marks:Due to an unforseen event, the IRC chat this Wednesday has been cancelled.Another week, another 1,500 comics. Happy sesquicentennial times ten, Namir Deiter.
The month is almost over and we're still half way to our goal for the next month... please consider donating, especially if you miss the deluxe, luxurious (so soft and silky) updating schedule, of seven Namir Deiter, six You Say it First and three Spare Parts comics a week. We're also a bit shy of reaching our goal for this month's bonus book "Shandra in Wonderland", so please consider donating and thank you to everyone who already have donated - you are what's keeping the comics going.
We're going to be doing something a little different with November and December's bonus drives, possibly October's to... those of you who remembered last year's combined November/December drive take heart, it'll be a whole lot less confusing.
In NamirDeiter.net, our bonus site for donators only, we have a few tidbits of news... we got a new site design going on for Fall, a new poll to the left of the main page's bonus content (if you're a donator please vote, as I value your input), tons of new wallpapers (including a larger version of the image used in this month's site design) and... A NEW ND CHAT!
That's right... our weekly Internet MP3ed babble podcast is back and we need more questions! If you're a donator, please consider checking it out and please send us questions to use in these chats... Terrence and myself babbling for half an hour without any actual goal can get kind of boring after a while, well, for you anyway. We do it all the time on our own time.
We may eventually start doing shorter non-donator ND Chats, but we're not even going to try that until we get the hang of the donator podcasts first... and in order to do that, we need more questions. I think it's one of those catch-22 things... anyway, please send up questions and we will do our best to answer them.
Not really huge news, but there is a new layout over at the ND Unlimited Store, just in time to celebrate the start of Fall. Please check it out and consider purchasing a book!
Also, I failed to mention last week that I've launched another site for donators, GroverHills.com, the official site for the donor-only webcomic The View from Grover Hills. Hopefully I'll have more bonus items on that site by next month...
No, Ten Minutes To... is NOT canned, just delayed a bit. Expect more news hopefully by... next year. -__-09.18.2006 - Terrence Marks:This Wednesday, at 5:30 PM Pacific we're having an IRC chat. Come to #namirdeiter at irc.nightstar.net. Isabel and I will be there, as will a number of other fans. Stop by and have a good time. Come talk about Namir Deiter or any of our other comics. We recommend using mIRC or web access via http://www.nightstar.net/110.0.html. If you use mIRC, note that nightstar has closed port 6667. So use any other port from 6660-6669.09.11.2006 - Isabel Marks:Another week in the ever-clairvoyant world of NDU...
Once again:
September update schedule for all things NDU:
-Namir Deiter updates Monday through Friday
-You say it First updates Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
-Spare Parts updates Monday and Friday
-NamirDeiter.net will have a bonus comic on Tuesdays. Sketch updates for the other six days of the week
Prefer the deluxe schedule (7 Namir Deiter, 6 You Say It First, 3 Spare Parts, 2 NamirDeiter.net per week)? Please consider donating today!
Not much news to report... I've been knee deep in working on Sea Dreams, last month's bonus book. I'm happy to announce that as of writing this up, all 12 pages are drawn and inked. As long as it does not interfere with our still unmade birthday plans for Terrence (the 13th of this month) it should be up no later than the end of this week.
This month's donation goal is going at a nice clip, please consider donating and help support the comic (and as always, thank you to those who have donated already or are considering it).
There was going to be more site update stuff, but I've decided to give the birthday boy a week off from all his PHPing duties- or whatever magical program he's using these days. So hopefully more things next week. Please wish Terrence birthday wishes and thank him for the crazy complicated site I can no longer update on my own (and I mean that in the most sincere way possible).
On the video game front...quick update to the Bera sever Guild Terrence and myself were planning over on Maple Story- long story short we never got enough people interested to form the guild (literally- you need 6 people), which was why it never happened. We might try again at a later date, but till then, if you like on-line RPG games, try out Maple Story. Terry and myself both play it more than we should and quite enjoy ourselves while playing.09.04.2006 - Terrence Marks:Our schedule for September is:Namir Deiter updates Monday through Friday
You say it First updates Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
Spare Parts updates Monday and Friday
NamirDeiter.net will have a bonus comic on Tuesdays. There will still be sketches every other day of the week.
We're off to a strong start this month, so help us out and we'll be back on the deluxe schedule (7 Namir Deiter, 6 You Say It First, 3 Spare Parts, 2 NamirDeiter.net per week). This month's NamirDeiter.net bonus comic strip is a new chapter of Grover Hills. This month's bonus book is "Shandra in Wonderland", in which Shandra's subconscious gets the better of her as it tries to make her relationship with Todd an actual relationship. As usual, it will be sent out after we reach $600 in donations.
Also, we're doing one wallpaper a month from now on. We had taken that out of the donation bonus list a few months ago. We're really proud of this month's wallpapers and hope you enjoy them.
08.28.2006 - Terrence Marks:Spare Parts got redesigned. It's a good layout, a bit simpler and a lot less orange. There were some minor code updates, too. We intend to redesign (and standardize the code behind) the rest of our sites in the near future. And it's getting very close to the end of the month - we're about halfway to our goal, and the more you donate, the more you get.08.21.2006 - Isabel Marks:The ND Unlimited Store's sale is going on for one more day, but ends at 10PM PST this Monday night! Don't miss your chance at getting a dollar off each book you purchase!
Naimr Deiter's character page has had a major revamp- new characters added- existing character pages updated and refurbished- I still have a lot to do with it, I admit, but I made a lot of progress with it...
Spare Part's page still needs to be revamped, I know... and You Say it First needs some more work to it too- but I have some other site related things to go beforehand- hopefully I can get to all those little to-do's by the middle of next month.
Just ten days left to the month and we're still not quite to our goal, please consider donating to help all our web comics continue on their current schedule. Just ten dollars gets you over 100 wallpapers, a ton of exclusive web comics and daily commentary, plus a 12-page bonus book on-line if we make the $600 goal. If you donate $50 or more, the bonus book will be sent to your home, along side one of the original hand drawn pages from that bonus book.
Speaking of the $50 donation gifts... last month's thank you items have been mailed out as of Friday- some of you may even have it now. Thank you to everyone who donated!08.13.2006 - Isabel Marks:There's a sale going on over at the ND Unlimited Store in honor of back to school week (for some of us...)- save a dollar off every book purchased! Please consider purchasing a book today!
Terrence did some behind the scenes tweaking work to the archive pages for ND. Some changes will be noticeable, others less so. There's still more work to be done, but it'll mostly all be on our end.
The cast page's updates are almost ready! Expect a larger update for it next week.
This month's bonus book has been announced! We at ND.net are proud to present...Sea Dreams! Book One: First Sails tells the story of Jun (of namirdeiter.net infamy) and her dreams of a life of a young captin's first time at sea. Is Jun's imaganation just working overboard at night or is there more to her dreams than letting on... 12 pages, in color. $50 donators will recieve a book in the mail as well as an orgional page in the mail. All donators of $10 will recieve the bonus book digitally (on-line for six months) as well as a one month account to NamirDeiter.net, home to daily bonus sketches, two bonus comics a week (this month featuring one shots from all our series), daily comic commentaty and more wallpapers than you can shake a mouse at (ok, so maybe you could, but I digress...). Please support the comic and consider donating today!Speaking of the $50 donators... last month's bonus books (and art) will be sent out by the end of the week, sorry for the delay. Hopefully I can get to work on it soon.
And a big thank you to Bill Holbrook who was kind enough to sell our books (in addition to his own, of course) at Otakon. Thank you, Bill!