Ultima Underworld Bugs Have Never Been So Funny
Former Looking Glass Productions programmer Dan Schmidt discusses some of the hilarious bugs, and “bugs”, encountered when developing Ultima Underworld.
Tagged: Ultima
Nuvie updated…Now With FM-Towns Support!
The cross-platform Ultima 6 engine has been updated recently, with support for a rare version of the game.
More Sanctimonia…Moar Louds! (Soundtrack, in other words.)
Early-version soundtrack pieces from Kevin Fishburne’s Ultima-inspired online game, Sanctimonia.
Sanctimonia Test Video
Kevin Fishburne sent along this video of his work-in-progress online game (and game engine) Sanctimonia, which demonstrates how the game will render water and terrain, and how the camera follows the player around. He...
Classic Ultima Online Is Back In Development
Classic Ultima Online has been largely silent for a couple of years now (maybe more), but developer Shattered Moon posted an update at the beginning of February, in which he reviews the original objectives...
Codex Dragon Does Dragon Age
Felicia “Codex Dragon” Day has been tweeting about her latest “mystery project” for the last couple of months (if not more), and today news broke concerning exactly what that project is: a six-episode Web...
Ultima 6 for Super NES…Online!
Twitter user and Ultima fan Cody Baxter alerted me to this online Nintendo Super NES emulation site, at which it appears that the NES port of Ultima 6 is available to play for free....
In which we are thankful that Ultima is an EA property
Because if Origin Systems had been purchased instead by Ubisoft, this entire site and every fan project and patch on it would have been stopped dead in their collective tracks a long time ago....
Added: Joyous Rebel
The oddly-titled Joyous Rebel is an Ultima-inspired RPG that was originally released as shareware in 1996. In 1998, it received several bug fixes and was re-released as freeware, possibly in anticipation of its sequel...
In a previous decade, Origin would have dominated this sort of list
By which, of course, I mean a list of the top ten games of the previous decade. Were it a list about the period between…say…1990 and 2000, you’d basically have every main-series Ultima title...
Sanctimonia update: terrain layers progressing, video imminent
Kevin Fishburne writes in to let us know that work continues to progress on his Ultima-inspired game, Sanctimonia. In particular, he reports that the terrain megatextures that his engine uses, and the landscape layer...
