Popularity
Neverending Nights has gained a following of fans, and has been featured in both PC Gamer and PC Gamer UK, having an episode on the February 2005 DVD of the former. They were also part of the selection for the 2005 Machinima Film Festival. Additionally, the creators have also been interviewed by Bioware, the makers of Neverwinter Nights.
In an interview with Hugh Hancock (the leader of Machinima.com) by Bioware, he said, "They're great. We first profiled them on Machinima.com about a year ago, I think. The way they work around their limitations is great - almost exactly the opposite approach to the one we're taking, but that's why they've been able to produce so much more quickly. And I found some of their episodes, the "lost in the woods" one in particular, accidentally-breathe-coffee level funny."
The makers of Neverending Nights were recently approached by ATARI and Obsidian Entertainment to create several machinima pieces to promote the release of Neverwinter Nights 2. With the same cast of voices (Tawmis Logue, Adam Freese, Paul Molina, Poppy Fitch, and Amiee Logue) the promotional series Neverending Daze was developed. The official release notice can be found on the Neverwinter Nights 2 Forum.
Within two weeks of creating an official profile on Youtube.com, Neverending Nights jumped to #4 slot of being the most subscribed Comedy Channel. They currently continue to enjoy an increasing amount of subscribers.
They were also featured on IGN's NWVault website.
Most recently they were published in the book entitled "Machinima For Dummies."
In recent episodes, they included the voice work of Al Lowe (creator of the Leisure Suit Larry series, as well as Torin's Passage, Freddy Pharkas, among many other titles at Sierra) and Greg Johnson (who was one half of the creative team behind the Toejam and Earl series, originally available on Sega, and later Toejam and Earl III being made for the Xbox exclusively).
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