Dragonlet #1 on Halloween!
This wasn’t the little girl’s first Halloween; she went trick-or-treating with me last year as well. But this year, she picked out her own costume, and (being a very smart little two-year-old) was able...
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Would an Ultima IRC channel be of use to you?
It has been suggested that an IRC channel, similar to the Wing Commander CIC’s #Wingnut chat, be set up at Aiera. It’s not really a bad idea…with the addition of the Codex to the...
Forgotten Hallows Rise 2010
The team at Forgotten World have really, really outdone themselves this time. First, the news: Hawkwind hasn’t been able to return to his coding role as of yet, but he has been assisting with...
Origin: Best PC game developer of all time?
Kotaku’s Luke Plunkett thinks so. [Update: link fixed! — Ed.] And I, for one, cannot disagree. Don’t get me wrong: there are a few other phenomenal game developers out there. I’m less sold on...
Restored: Ultima Fonts
I’ve been putting this off for too long, because…ugh…there’s just so much fragmentation where Ultima-related fonts are concerned. But after a few months of looking around, I think I’ve managed to grab pretty much...
Restored: Littoral
Technically, the project entry is for Kevin Fishburne’s short-lived Ultima 5 – TES3 Mod, which currently resides in the Aiera Orphanage. However, the released download associated therewith is actually Littoral, his powerful terrain heightmap...
New Gallery: Ultima Online 2 Recordings
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 to present two recordings of…well,...
Quite literally the first computer game I ever played
As I mentioned in this post, the first three computer games I ever played, and then within the span of about eighteen months (and I can’t have been 7 years old at the end...
"Badass" Epic Mickey gameplay trailer
That’s Joystiq’s term for it, not mine, although it isn’t exactly an inaccurate label: I’m still digging the very classical styling of the game’s visual elements, especially the old-school Mickey Mouse look. Interestingly, the...
