Slashing Dragon has released version 1.64 of Ananias Roguelike, which brings new animations and a number of UX adjustments to the game. Slash also has two versions of the game — presumably the (free) Standard and (paid) Fellowship editions — on Testflight, which is a beta testing platform for iOS apps. So expect to see Ananias on your iDevice in the near future! He and his team are also readying a new trailer for the game on Steam, and have pulled the Fellowship Edition off of the Desura storefront in the wake of that company’s parent company’s bankruptcy.

Slash also presented Ananias at Comic Con Colombia 2015 last weekend. Rather than buying a whole bunch of merchandise himself, he invited many of the artists there to create their own depictions of the characters in the game; you can see the results at his blog. He also hosted a small panel discussion about the design of Ananias and the challenges of being an indie game developer.

Does this make Ananias the first Ultima fan project to have a presentation at a comics or games conference?