Monthly Archive: September 2010

Awesome: Lair of the Shadow Broker trailer

Awesome: Lair of the Shadow Broker trailer

This is, I submit, what downloadable content (DLC) should be all about: Being an Ultima fan, I’ve always measured add-on content — DLC included — against the metric established by the two expansions to...

Hurricane!

Hurricane!

Not great quality, but it gives a sense of what the weather here in Ingonish is like. Earl is making itself known. And the wedding? Indoors, my Dragons. Indoors FTW.

No updates today

No updates today

I’m a groomsman for my friend Tiago, who is getting married this weekend in Ingonish, Nova Scotia. Which means I’ll be spending most of the day on a plane between Edmonton and Halifax, or...

Restored: IRE

Restored: IRE

DOUG the Eagle Dragon’s Ultima 6-inspired RPG creation software is once again available for download.

Return to the Serpent Isle character creation video

Return to the Serpent Isle character creation video

The busy folks of Team Return have managed to get an Ultima-like character creation system working in Neverwinter Nights 2, and have even posted a video of their system in action: They have also...

Added: Ultimate Action RPG Maker

Added: Ultimate Action RPG Maker

In his latest news post, Dino mentioned this interesting-looking new project, which aims to craft an RPG maker that features Ultima 7-ish graphics and no need for programming skill. It seemed worth a project...

Return to the Serpent Isle August Update: Stop, thief!

Return to the Serpent Isle August Update: Stop, thief!

Sergorn Dragon’s increasingly ambitious Ultima project (which I’m also working on) has posted its latest monthly update, and announces the development or updating of several game system scripts that members of the team have...

Spoony reviews Ultima 4

Spoony reviews Ultima 4

Spoony’s review of Ultima 4 is online and available for the watching, and Spoony himself is at his profane best throughout it. His…observation about the shape of the dungeon is unfortunate but, in this...

Updated: The Dark Core for IE8

Updated: The Dark Core for IE8

Thanks to the efforts of Infinitron Dragon, A New Breed of Dragon’s Ultima: The Dark Core is now compatible with modern web browsers (or, at least, with Internet Explorer 8 — other browsers are...