Inspired, no doubt, by the efforts of The Ultima 6 Remake team to bring Ultima 6 to the Exult engine, Ideal Dragon has begun exploring the creation of an Ultima 8 remake using Exult as well (that link goes to the Ultima Dragons server on Discord, which has a forum area for project-specific discussions).

Hail, dragons! This thread is to discuss my amateurish attempt to create an Ultima 8: Exult mod.

I don’t know usecode so I haven’t really attempted to do that side of things yet; so far I’m busy building out the world map and porting over art assets from Pagan.

Currently, I have assistance with art from Stardrop and also an artist named Son who has created an avatar sprite and 1 NPC. I have also been getting assistance from agentorangeguy (U6Exult), who, without their help, I would not have created what I have.

I will happily share any and all assets I create as well. This project will likely take a very long time to work through as I’m learning everything from scratch, basically. You have no idea how hard it is currently for me to put a roof on a building in Exult’s map editing mode

This project is probably best described as “nascent”, but Ideal Dragon has already started reworking the look of Ultima 7 to incorporate design elements from Ultima 8 (notably: plates of food, a flickering lantern, and different roof tiles):

You can get in touch with Ideal Dragon and follow his progress on this project on Discord (for now).