Back to Roots Update: Schedules and Conversations
Fearyourself sent me an update by email to let me know that he has added a few more features to his multi-game engine, Back to Roots. Schedules Everything is actually implemented, I had a...
Creation takes time. Time is limited.
Ultima X: Odyssey Gameworld Video
Some (most?) of you may have already seen this, but I’ve only just stumbled across it. It’s a flythrough-style video of the gameworld from the canceled Ultima X: Odyssey that I just happened to...
Touching up project entries
So, now that I’ve basically got every project entry restored, I’ve begun what I like to think of as “Phase 2” of the update to Aiera. That would be: I’m going through project entries,...
Ultima 8: Pagan – The Movie
Okay, not quite. Kobra Kai Dragon found this on YouTube yesterday and posted a link thereto in the forum. It’s kind of a technical demonstration which appears to be for a class someone is...
Should Neverwinter Nights 2 become the go-to game for Ultima mod-makers to use?
Neverwinter Nights 2 doesn’t allow for the creation of a fully continuous world, a hallmark of the later Ultima games. But it does allow for the creation of a very fine-looking dual-scale world, a hallmark of the earlier Ultima games.
Beautiful Britannia 2011 vs 2010 Comparison
I posted news about the release of Beautiful Britannia 2011 R1 last week, and was suitably impressed by the list of details that Firstknight sent my way concerning the changes he’d made. But I...
The Codex has been updated
The gents who run the Codex of Ultima Wisdom have been busy making many updates to their wiki, which (as most of you should know) recently moved over to Aiera’s server after parting ways...
Titans of Ether November update
As in November 2010. But whatever. Anyhow, the penultimate month of 2010 was a fairly productive one for the Titans. Zini finished his work on their smithing system, so sword and armour forging is...
Oh…I feel old now
It gets worse when I consider that my grandkids, if ever I have, will probably have no clue what the heck a CD was. They may not even know what a DVD was, since...
Richard Garriott interview with VBS.TV/Motherboard
It’s not a brand new interview, seeing as it was published in February of 2009 (and seeing as how Tabula Rasa comes up for discussion in it), but it’s still pretty sweet. It gives...
