To Be A Hero: New Trailer Released!
A 2D, full-featured, old-school RPG coming to iOS in the near future. I covered it a bit at Old Aiera, and its developers have just posted a new trailer!
Tagged: 2D
Back to Roots: Looking For Collaboration
Fearyourself, having reached a point where he feels his Ultima-inspired game engine, Back to Roots, is stable and mature enough, is looking for more people to join the project.
New (But Orphaned) Project: ZXU4
Zedex Dragon was, for a time, building a custom version of Ultima 4 for a computer of his own designing, the ZX Spectrum SE.
New Project: Ultima Obscura
And remember: the first annual Aiera Thanksgiveaway is still on! This is an interesting-looking project, though still in the conceptual stage. It bills itself as “complete and total re-imagining of the entire linear canonical...
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...
Game conveniences we take for granted
Apropos of this, this list of the “Top 10 Current-Gen Conveniences We Take For Granted” from GameFAQs seems relevant. For example: #6: Objective Markers Remember how in old RPGs, you would be told to...
Added: TileWorlds
This project is the next generation of the Ultima-inspired 2D RPG-making engine. Entirely web-based, built in HTML and jQuery, TileWorlds “lets anyone create a role-playing adventure similar in style to the classic Ultima games.”...
Restored: Dragon Engine
This project was supposed to be a fairly straightforward, Ultima 5-inspired 2D engine which employed the use of various Ultima conventions. However, Litmus Dragon stopped work on it some years ago, though not before...
