slashgravatar has been quite productive in his work on Morgaelin, his Ultima 4-inspired demake of Ultima 8. He added animated tiles to the map display in the game, added animated text prompts, implemented NPC conversations (including adding the ability for NPCs to join the player’s party…which in turn meant adding party support to the character list in the UI), and even implemented a food/starvation system. Because really, Ultima 8 wasn’t challenging enough!

He even released a video to show some of these new features off:

More recently, he also added background music, and added the ability to view party member [z]tats. Ah, [z]tats.

He has made additional changes since then, which only appear in the BitBucket commit logs for the project, and haven’t hit the news on the Pixals.co website yet. So for the latest and greatest news from this project, be sure to follow those logs!