A gauntlet has been thrown down
My co-worker Ben, the de-facto captain of the Movember team that I am on, has issued a challenge to the rest of us on the team: I pushed my goal up to $1000 for...
Creation takes time. Time is limited.
EUO updates…many, many updates!
It’s been a while since I checked in on EUO, Max Breedon’s “little project that could,” but in the interim it would appear that Max has made several enhancements to his Ultima-inspired project. For...
Restored: Ultima 1 for Java
This project never really made it out of the design phase, but it was still an ambitious attempt to create, back before game embeds on websites became commonplace, to create a web-based, platform-independent engine...
Another Forgotten World screenshot
So…as was recently noted in another news posting, Firstknight has returned to the Forgotten World team, though at present I will be tracking his project — Beautiful Britannia — separately from Forgotten World here...
Return to the Serpent Isle: Portraits!
As noted back in their August update, Team Return have welcomed into their fold Jolyn “Nytefall” Kitzer, who was the lead 2D artist for Ultima V: Lazarus. In the intervening months, she has produced...
Spoony's review of Ultima 6: not entirely fair?
Sadly, he isn’t all that kind to that which I count as my favourite Ultima title: I don’t share many of Spoony’s criticisms, although that is partly due to the fact that, per the...
Well, I'm back
As Samwise once said. I am resuming posting as of…well…today, in fact, and will be working through the pile of mail I received during the week-long hiatus I took just after — and as...
Veteran's/Remembrance Day
Veteran’s Day (in the US) and Remembrance (or Armistice) Day in much of the Commonwealth, is one of those few times of the year that inspires a kind of somber reflection that crosses most...
Presenting: Dragonlet #2
Born: 7 November 2010 Sex: Girl Weight: 7 lbs. 10 oz. Length: 20.3″ As yet, we haven’t decided on a name, but we will have done by tomorrow.
Dragonlet #2 is arriving today (update!!!)
We’re back at the hospital (if you were following my Twitter feed yesterday night, you’ll know the story) and it’s definitely not a false alarm this time. The Dragoness will be having this baby...
