Back to Roots Update
JC has made progress decoding the dungeon data from Ultima 5, and implementing these dungeons in his Ultima-inspired game engine, Back to Roots.
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Back to Roots: Ultima 5 Game Images
Fearyourself has decoded the .16 and .4 files from the Ultima 5 folder, extracting the graphics contained therein. Nice guy that he is, he passed along ZIP archives of both graphics sets.
Back to Roots: Transportation and a Better Renderer
Fearyourself has finished implementing transportation — all forms thereof — in his Ultima-inspired game engine, Back to Roots. Now he has set his sights on improving the engine’s renderer.
Back to Roots: NPCs in Skara Brae
Fearyourself has made yet more great progress on his Ultima-inspired RPG engine, Back to Roots, and has implemented all of the NPCs in Skara Brae for his upcoming tech demo.
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.
Back to Roots: Boat Transportation
Fearyourself has added boat travel (and most other forms of “vehicular” travel) to his Ultima-inspired game engine, Back to Roots.
Back to Roots: xu4's Graphics, Ultima 5 Discoveries
Fearyourself has continued to work and report on his Ultima-inspired game engine project, Back to Roots, and has even found a way to incorporate the graphics from the recently-released high-resolution tileset for xu4.
Back to Roots: Working Healers, And Many Lines of Code
Fearyourself’s Ultima-inspired game engine project proceeds apace, with the addition of a healer in Brittany.
Back to Roots: First Scripted Quests
Fearyourself has made some excellent progress with scripting in his Ultima-inspired RPG engine project, and has implemented a few basic quests with it.
Back to Roots: Savegames, Monsters, and LUA
Fearyourself has been busy experimenting with the use of LUA scripting to handle certain in-game events.
