All Ultima Titles On Sale at GOG This Weekend (Wing Commander Too!)
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Tagged: Ultima 5
Patches & Updates for the GOG.com Ultima Releases
A quick look at some of the patches and updates for the Ultima titles presently available on Good Old Games, all of which should work with the GOG.com versions of the games.
Back to Roots: Dungeons for Ultima 4
Fearyourself poses a question about how dungeon graphics in Back to Roots should be handled.
Back to Roots: Dungeon Combat and Musings
Fearyourself has more or less polished off the implementation of classic Ultima dungeons in Back to Roots, and is wondering what he should focus his efforts on next.
About the Ultima Series
The games comprising the Ultima series were, between 1981 and 1999, the defining computer role-playing games. Both the Western and Eastern RPG “schools”, if that is an appropriate term for them, were heavily inspired by the Ultima games, and still feature numerous gameplay and interface conventions that one Ultima or another introduced.
Zygon Dragon Has A Question About Ultima 5's Soundtrack
Zygon Dragon has a question about the soundtrack for Ultima 5 (for the Apple II) and the capabilities of some of the advanced audio hardware of the day.
And Now A Word From UVL Spanish!
Shyrion Dragon posted a brief update to the website of his project, a Spanish translation of Ultima V: Lazarus.
Slime attack!
I got round to do the next big step in the BackToRoots engine: monster scripting. Now monsters can have a Lua script attached to them and we have a few callbacks to diversify the behavior.
RPGCodex Interviews Ian Frazier
RPGCodex scored an interview with Ian Frazier, former lead of Team Lazarus and the lead designer for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.
Backtoroots: Dungeon rooms with objects and monsters
And in a further Back To Roots progress update, I was lucky to continue the progress of dungeon handling.
Backtoroots: Dungeon Crawlers
The backtoroots project has moved forward by forging monsters in the dungeon halls.
