Slashing Dragon had paused work on his OpenArthurianX6 Ultima 6-like game engine since March of 2020, but as of the beginning of this month he has been working on it again. Indeed, he started the month by picking up work on Milestone 7 of the engine (Milestone 6 having been released last May), and as of last week was happy to announce that Milestone 7 had been completed:

After 5 more live coding sessions including wrestling an ugly bug online, Milestone 7 is completed! The Demos page has been updated so you can play online or even download the win64 package.

Main changes for this milestone include:

– Support for signs and gravestones (including runic!)
– Interaction with world beings (milk a cow!)
– A simple hunger system
– Party members joining / leaving the party

Onwards to Milestone 8!

If you want to see where development of the OpenArthurianX6 engine is at, Slashing Dragon does maintain a Feature Status page on the project’s website. Demos and downloads are also available, as the excerpt above notes.