Three videos spotlighting a bunch of the features of 38 Studios’ upcoming RPG, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. It would seem to have a lot of RPG features, more than just an open world. And hey, it’s Tibby presenting the game in the videos; you should watch them just for that.
Courtesy of Bill Randolph and Joe Garrity of the Origin Muesum, Ultima Aiera is pleased to present a series of design documents for Ultima 7, covering areas such as conversation syntax, function design, and Origin’s in-house map editor.
SirBedwyr of the DeviantArt community has produced a set of circular dock icons inspired by the various titles in the Ultima series.
I have updated Ultima Aiera’s copies of the snapshot downloads for Pentagram and xu4, both because they were out of date anyway and because of the recent SDL fixes for the OS X versions.
The latest version of Exult (1.49) has been proted to Haiku, an open-source operating system inspired by BeOS.
I’ve just put a new post up at The Digital Lycaeum, asking for help figuring out an effective categorization scheme for the site.
Firstknight, unfortunately, has had to slow down work on Beautiful Britannia courtesy of various real-life issues. The next release from the project will be delayed a few months as a result.
The Digital Lycaeum is the newest feature offered by Ultima Aiera: a repository of Ultima-themed game assets that any interested fan project developers can access and make use of!
Eric Fry has just posted the second official release — at version 0.2 — of Nuvie, his Exult-like front-end for Ultima 6 (and, one day, Savage Empire and Martian Dreams as well).
Seven years ago today, Ultima Aiera was launched as an alternative to Ultima: The Reconstruction (another project archive), and the home of The Ultima Orphanage. My, how things have changed!
Electronic Arts has promoted BioWare from an EA Games studio to a label within the company on par with EA Games itself; BioWare is now EA’s dedicated RPG label.
