Zygon Dragon has posted an update to the…well, “long-dormant” isn’t necessarily the best phrase to employ in this community, given that some fan project websites can go without seeing significant updates for years. But we haven’t heard from The Ultima 6 Remake team since September of last year, so this recent update to the project site is a welcome sight indeed:

Sorry for the long delay in updating! While the title screen situation has held up things a little, we’ve still been doing some work on the project. Crowley has been hard at work with new shapes, with some new shapes for Sentri and Katrina, as well as one for Jaana in the works. Other graphical upgrades to things we needed such as the gears have been included also. Aside from doing some map work and coding here and there, I have also attempted to work on the U6 Balloon. Aside from an incredibly clunky last ditch solution, I’ve been working on how to create it as a barge, kind of like the magic carpet in U7. I actually have one somewhat functional, albiet a few eyesores dealing with wrong looking graphics while turned but that shouldn’t be too much of a problem for one of our new team recruits who has been helping me with new graphics for the balloon itself. Also, we’ve got someone to help with coding and writing for a subplot that I think hardcore and purist fans of U5 will enjoy. When I hear from the new recruits I’ll officially add them to the team in a new update.

So I once again apologize for the lack of updates, as you know real life crap gets in the way but I’ve been working on it here and there so it never has gone stagnant behind the scenes. Hopefully, the title screen problem will be fixed and we can resume with the demo.

A few animation frames for both Katrina and Sentri were included with the update; here’s one of each:

You can read up on the “title screen situation” here. If Exult scripting is one of your knowledge domains, please do contribute to the discussion; if you can help the team arrive at a viable solution, I’m sure they’d be very grateful!