Kevin Fishburne’s Ultima-inspired online RPG engine has seen many improvements, especially to atmospheric effects, since last we heard news of it. Oh, and he’s implemented OpenGL-accelerated graphics, as well.
Fearyourself has made yet more great progress on his Ultima-inspired RPG engine, Back to Roots, and has implemented all of the NPCs in Skara Brae for his upcoming tech demo.
EA Labels president Frank Gibeau, in a recent interview, teased us all by letting slip that EA is looking at “a couple of old franchises” again.
The no longer anywhere near nightly open discussion thread at Ultima Aiera.
Richard Garriott gave a version of his “three eras of gaming” keynote talk at GDC Europe this week, and focused a lot on Ultima and Ultima online in its text.
Fearyourself, having reached a point where he feels his Ultima-inspired game engine, Back to Roots, is stable and mature enough, is looking for more people to join the project.
Fearyourself has added boat travel (and most other forms of “vehicular” travel) to his Ultima-inspired game engine, Back to Roots.
Thepal has posted what he describes as a “pretty” (and, to be fair, it is) screenshot of a scene in his Oblivion-based remake of Serpent Isle.
G4TV recently interviewed Chris Roberts, the man behind Wing Commander, and learned that he is anxious to return to game-making…and to the Wing Commander universe.
