Ultima Online: The First DirectX Game
Alex St. John, one of the creators of the DirectX technology platform and founder of WildTangent explains, in a lengthy blogpost, just how instrumental Origin Systems was to the development of DirectX.
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Ultima Online: Publish 83, Sixteenth Anniversary, and More
In preparation for Ultima Online’s sixteenth anniversary, Mythic have pushed Publish 83 to its test shard.
Raph Koster’s MMORPG.com Interview: Ultima Online Comments
Raph Koster chatted with MMORPG.com recently. Here are his comments on Ultima Online, which were made during the course of the interview. (Image credit: Cory Doctorow)
Starr Long to Speak At the Captivate Conference
Shroud of the Avatar’s executive producer, MMORPG veteran Starr Long, will be speaking at the Captivate Conference in Austin in October.
Ultima Online: Fixing the Patcher, Game Code Formatting
Mythic are making some updates to Ultima Online’s patcher, and would like to remind players about the proper format for game codes.
The Ultima Online 2 Technical Design Document
Scans of a lengthy technical design document produced for what was probably the last attempt at creating Ultima Online 2.
The UO Next Style Guide
A style guide produced for the production team of UO Next, a cancelled attempt to re-tool, clean up, and streamline Ultima Online.
Ultima Online Kingdom Reborn Art Guide
A style guide produced for artists working on assets for Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn.
Random Wednesdays
I have to say…the upcoming EverQuest games are, to my mind, jaw-droppingly awesome in terms of the sort of sandbox play they’ll allow for. Or, at least, that’s my hope.
Ultima Online: Character Tokens Exploit Details
Mythic have released a few details about the character token exploit that necessitated the recent patch for Ultima Online.
Ultima Online: Publish Patch Notes
A small patch, affecting Merchants Trinkets, has been applied to Ultima Online.
