Monthly Archive: April 2011
New Gallery: Ultima 4 Town and City Maps
17 images from the Ultima 4 cluebook, The Way of the Avatar. Back in the day, Origin made some of the coolest cluebooks, and the quality of these city maps shows it.
New Gallery: Origin Museum Artifacts
Ultima Aiera is pleased to present over 100 photos of some of the more rare and fascinating items that the Origin Museum has collected, representing a wide swath of the history of the company and its products.
One Step Closer To A Video Game Grammy
Following the victory of Civilization 4’s theme, Baba Yetu, in the “Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists” category, the Grammy Awards have expanded four award categories to include video game music as well. Can it be long before games have their own dedicated award?
Ultima 4 Manga
Blu3vib3 and translator RCapowski have undertaken a project to scan-late the manga retelling of Ultima 4. So far, they have the first chapter online.
Savage Empire: Pretty Trees, Myrmidex Drones, and Fabozz
Scythifuge has posted another thread to the Exult forums, showing off a couple more pieces of artwork he has created for his Exult-based remake of Savage Empire.
Sanctimonia Update: Rotation Working Great!
Kevin Fishburne has made some improvements to how his Ultima-inspired online game handles camera rotation, and has mostly overcome the GAMBAS-related issues he had been experiencing.
The Original Ultima Online World Map…I Finally Found It!
Thanks to Canadian sci-fi author Cory Doctorow, I finally rediscovered an old map of the original plan for Ultima Online’s game world, which included all four continents from the first Ultima game.
