A Hilarious and Charming Origin Systems Customer Service Call
A hilarious Origin Systems customer service encounter, as described to Sheri Graner Ray by OSI customer service representative Rebecca Heidt.
Tagged: Ultima 6
New Patch: Use Ultima 6’s Font in Savage Empire
Eric Fry has released a patch for Savage Empire that swaps out the game’s font for that of Ultima 6.
Spam Spam Spam Humbug: Episode 49 – Crafting Menus vs. Interactive World Features
The later Ultimas featured robust interactive world systems, which even allowed for objects to be combined to make other objects (e.g. bread). How does this relate to modern crafting systems in RPGs?
Richard Garriott’s Collection of Ultima Completion Certificates Needs Some Additions
Richard Garriott has been building up a collection of templates for Ultima completion certificates.
Spam Spam Spam Humbug: Episode 45 – In Which I Eat Crow (I’ll Soon Be Plump!)
In hindsight, it was obvious that at some point, WtFD would have to eat some of his words regarding the Kim Karsdashian iOS game.
Britannia Online: FM Towns Support
Britannia Online, another online-focused remake of Ultima 6, now supports the FM Towns audio files for the game.
Spam Spam Spam Humbug: Episode 42 – Towels Optional
If you’ve ever wondered what our dream games might look like…we’ll try to tell you.
Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 8 – Virtues and Anti-Virtues, Sheep and Goats
Ultima doesn’t adequately represent all of the opposition that exists to each Virtue. Not that it handles anti-virtue badly…it just handles it incompletely.
Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 2, Episode 6 – Love, Compassion, and Mercy
The Ultima series depicts love in a very philosophically interesting way, one which is very much in line with real-world ideals of mercy.
Ultima Journeys: Shufflin’ Around (in Savage Empire)
Linguistic Dragon explores Savage Empire a bit more, and struggles with inventory management.
Gameranx Discusses the History and Evolution of Open World Games (Including Two Ultima Titles)
Gameranx looks at the history and evolution of open world games, beginning with Ultima 1.
