Nyrthos is a new game which basically became known online earlier this week. Targeted at browsers and mobile devices, it looks like an Infinity Engine game, more or less, and evidently incorporates many RPG features.
The no longer anywhere near nightly open discussion thread at Ultima Aiera.
The no longer anywhere near nightly open discussion thread at Ultima Aiera.
A 2D RPG in development for Apple’s iOS mobile operating system, To Be A Hero draws several obvious influences from both Japanese RPGs and the Ultima series, especially Ultima 7.
Richard Garriott announced this evening, on Twitter, that an Ultima-like iOS game is “coming soon”!
I’ve got about a month’s worth of links and notes in my inbox that I am really intent on clearing out. I’ve also got tons of legitimate news updates to make, of course, and clearing out the inbox will help me prioritize those as well.
Cody Ellsworth has released a short video demonstrating his work-in-progress, Ultima 5-inspired RPG for iOS.
Lanica, who crafted the PocketPC port of Exult many years ago, has shifted his attention to iOS development, and has begun working on an Exult port for that platform.
I’ll be offline for pretty much all of the weekend, so feel free to read up on this selection of gaming-related news and discuss anything — related to the links, or not — amongst yourselves.
The no longer anywhere even remotely approaching nightly open thread at Ultima Aiera. I’m posting it early today because I’m crazy-busy with stuff to do in real life. Plus, the site’s getting a MySQL update tomorrow, so I don’t want to add much in the way of new content until that is finished.
The only way — at present — to run Ultima games on your Apple iDevice is to jailbreak it. For iPad 2 owners, this has been a major obstacle…until today.
