Ultima Forever: Graphical Evolution

As revealed by Paul Barnett in his GDC Online presentation, Ultima Forever went through a number of iterations, as far as its graphics were concerned. The game began as — get this — a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel with its cells filled in with different colours.

To repeat: Mythic’s initial toolset for the game was…Microsoft productivity software.

The game’s evolution and development from that point onward is one hell of a story.

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  1. Sanctimonia says:

    Boo. I would have expected VB6 or VB.NET. NO ONE expects the Microsoft productivity software!!!