New Gallery: Bill Randolph’s Ultima 9 Post-Mortem Report
A postmortem report on the development — and challenges — of Ultima 9, authored by lead programmer Bill Randolph.
A postmortem report on the development — and challenges — of Ultima 9, authored by lead programmer Bill Randolph.
The last numbered, single-player entry in the Ultima series enters its second decade, and yet is still unrivaled in some ways.
Slashing Dragon has never played Ultima 9 before, and so is giving the game a try.
Bill Randolph graciously took over an hour out of his busy schedule to chat with us about his work at Origin Systems, especially on Ultima 9. He answered a number of questions about the game and its development, and shed some new light on its difficult development.
Because I’m a horribly forgetful person, I failed to post this news when it was at its freshest. Firstknight left a comment on his project’s entry to bring us all up to speed on...