Thank you, Shattered Moon!
Shattered Moon, whom some of you may know and recognize as the developer behind Classic Ultima Online, chipped in a sizeable donation to Aiera last week, for which I am monumentally grateful. I mean,...
Creation takes time. Time is limited.
Ultima Return needs YOU!
Oh noes! Sergorn Dragon informed me this morning that Kat, the editor and a main writer for Return to the Serpent Isle, has had to part ways with the team and the project for...
A curious Martian Dreams bug
Over in the forum, commenter GuJiaXian posted a lengthy article about how he ran into a spot of trouble with Martian Dreams, and encountered what seemed, at first, like a plot-stopping bug: There are...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
This will be a fairly short review, as my reviews of things go. I can only assume the vast majority of you Dragons and Dragonettes have, at minimum, read Harry Potter and the Deathly...
Forgotten World's weekly screenshot is some kind of freakin' awesome
Okay, on the surface, the team’s latest screenshot doesn’t look particularly “wow, that’s the most amazing thing I’ve seen since amazing was amazing!”…it’s just the Avatar in front of a lady sitting on a...
Updated: u6encode/decode
Nodling Dragon produced a handy little utility a while back that let you decode (decompress) the LZW-compressed data files that Ultima 6 uses, and then re-encode them in a way that Ultima 6 can...
Warren Spector interview in The Globe & Mail
Naturally, the focus is on Epic Mickey, Spector’s upcoming game for the Nintendo Wii. It’s a very, very long interview and ranges over a bunch of different aspects of the game, its art, and...
Added: Serpent Isle Map for The Moon Project
What is it? It’s a recreation of the entire world from Ultima 7 Part II for The Moon Project, a science fiction RTS released in 2000 as a sequel to the excellent Earth 2150....
Added: Britannia Map for The Moon Project
What is it? It’s a recreation, by Ryan “Zerker” Armstrong, of the entire world from Ultima 7 for The Moon Project, a science fiction RTS released in 2000 as a sequel to the excellent...
New Gallery: Ultima Underworld 2 Cluebook Art
Courtesy of Ryan “Zerk” Armstrong, Ultima Aiera is pleased to present for download 28 images from the Ultima Underworld 2 cluebook, Gems of Enlightenment. As Zerk notes: “Since only a fraction of Uw2 players,...
