Monthly Archive: November 2010

Return to the Serpent Isle: Portraits!

Return to the Serpent Isle: Portraits!

As noted back in their August update, Team Return have welcomed into their fold Jolyn “Nytefall” Kitzer, who was the lead 2D artist for Ultima V: Lazarus. In the intervening months, she has produced...

Spoony's review of Ultima 6: not entirely fair?

Spoony's review of Ultima 6: not entirely fair?

Sadly, he isn’t all that kind to that which I count as my favourite Ultima title: I don’t share many of Spoony’s criticisms, although that is partly due to the fact that, per the...

Well, I'm back

Well, I'm back

As Samwise once said. I am resuming posting as of…well…today, in fact, and will be working through the pile of mail I received during the week-long hiatus I took just after — and as...

Veteran's/Remembrance Day

Veteran's/Remembrance Day

Veteran’s Day (in the US) and Remembrance (or Armistice) Day in much of the Commonwealth, is one of those few times of the year that inspires a kind of somber reflection that crosses most...

Forgotten World Weekly Screenshots

Forgotten World Weekly Screenshots

Iceblade dropped me a quick note to say that for the next few months (at least), he will be posting a new screenshot from Forgotten World‘s development to the project’s Releases and Media page....

Added: Back to Roots

Added: Back to Roots

Commenter Fearyourself, who has stepped to the fore to help Kevin Fishburne with his coding issue, has an Ultima-inspired engine creation project of his own, which I have just now gladly added a project...

Style thyself as a Knight of Monitor

Style thyself as a Knight of Monitor

I tweeted a link to YouTube user Resulka‘s “secret lost” thirty-ninth episode of her playthrough of Serpent Isle. (Resulka self-describes as “[y]et another LP-er with a propensity for vintage gaming,” and she certainly makes...

Shattered Moon gets a facelift!

Shattered Moon gets a facelift!

Shattered Moon contacted me about the possibility of jettisoning Drupal as the content management system for Shattered Moon, the home page of his Classic Ultima Online project. I built the first page for him...