Michael Davis spent between sixty and seventy hours crafting it, but the result (pictured above) might well be the most epic piece of Ultima fan art in the history of such endeavours:

Richard Garriott called it “impressive”, and then Denis Loubet and Dr. Cat shared it on their Facebook timelines. To give you some context if you’re not a card-carrying lifetime nerd like I am, that’d be like if a high school kid posted a picture of himself making a hook shot, and Michael Jordan called it “impressive” and Scottie Pippen and Magic Johnson shared it on their walls. These people are literally the 1992 US men’s Olympic basketball team of the computer game world. If I could tell my 12-year-old self this was going to happen, he’d never sleep again from anticipation.

The voice of Serious Sam friended me, and the CEO of Destructoid said I “won the universe”.

My favourite comments so far have been “Ultima Offline”, “World’s greatest screenshot”, and “Aber voll der Spoiler!” (“Hey, this is full of spoilers!”)

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It is complete. I think a part of my brain is severely, irrevocably shorted out from placing 64,000 tiny rubber cubes, set by hand with a pair of tweezers, over the course of about 60-70 hours, but it was worth it.

To be honest, Monica set about 2,240 pixels, and Droz did 980. So I only did 60,780 myself.

Many thanks to Andrea Fryer for bringing this to my attention! And to Mr. Davis, for a truly impressive homage to the greatest RPG series.