Ultima Return's Unified System Released!
Team Return, busy at work on Return to the Serpent Isle, has just announced the release of their “Unified System“, a comprehensive collection of scripts for Neverwinter Nights 2 that add a host of...
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The 25-year history of the (graphical) adventure game genre
There’s little more than needs to be said, apart from the fact that you — all of you, good Dragons and Dragonettes — need to read this article at Ars Technica in its entirety....
Lysts on the Lake
What’s that, you might ask? Put briefly, Lysts on the Lake is a competitive open jousting tournament held in Austin, Texas, which is produced by a’Plaisance Ltd. Open to all “qualified competitors” (I’m not...
Added: Nytegard's Ultima 5 Utilities
Several years ago, Nytegard undertook a project to crack into the data files for Ultima 5, and proceeded to extensively reverse-engineer the game. Along the way, he built himself several tools to assist in...
New Gallery: Ultima 9 Manual Images
And speaking of Ultima 9… Courtesy of Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum, and thanks to the hard work of both him and the team at the Wing Commander CIC, Ultima Aiera is pleased...
Beautiful Britannia…is now officially about more than just plants!
Don’t believe me? Feast your eyes on this: Now, Firstknight cautions that it will probably be a few months before we see the next update, though in his short news post he comments that...
Ultima Textures for Minecraft Updated
Andy Panthro has released an updated version of his Ultima-inspired texture set for Minecraft, which boasts a few new textures and a few revised ones. Expect this to be the first of several updates;...
Crap…iDOS got pulled from the App Store, again
Once again, the issue is that the program can run custom executables within itself. As the developer points out in this post, to comply with Apple’s App Store policy, he would effectively have to...
Ultima 3: Exodus running on an Apple II+
Witness the awesome: There’s really not much to say, apart from that this is all kinds of cool. It’s kind of mind-boggling to think that this is where Ultima — where gaming, really —...
Back to Roots: Conversation System and Another Bug
Fearyourself/JC has continued to make progress adding support for Ultima 5 to his game engine: I’ve continued the conversation system and actually have integrated the full labelling system into the game engine. It seems...
