A handful of tweets from Kevin Fishburne reveal that he has had a fairly productive week in the development of his Ultima-inspired PvE MMORPG Sanctimonia. Here’s the first status update he posted:

“In-character” GUI elements (minimap, cloth map, crafting and gear management GUIs) now accurately incorporate solar lighting conditions.

— Eight Virtues (@eightvirtues) May 26, 2013

And in addition to the graphics-related updates above, he made some changes to how the game client handles certain sound effects:

Wisp emitter client updates may now portend only a sound effect (no visual wisps created), great for unaccompanied impact sounds.

— Eight Virtues (@eightvirtues) May 26, 2013

And, of course, he also spent some time testing out new sound effects:

Testing swing (player gear) and impact (tree and stick PWO) sound effect variation groups: youtu.be/BmAXXptBlS4 ffmpeg/alsa/pulse xruns.

— Eight Virtues (@eightvirtues) May 26, 2013

Here’s the video that accompanied that last tweet:

As always, we’re seeing great progress being made on this game.