Tagged: Ultima

New Project: Ultima Obscura

New Project: Ultima Obscura

And remember: the first annual Aiera Thanksgiveaway is still on! This is an interesting-looking project, though still in the conceptual stage. It bills itself as “complete and total re-imagining of the entire linear canonical...

Firstknight teases a 2010 Beautiful Britannia demo

Firstknight teases a 2010 Beautiful Britannia demo

And remember: the first annual Aiera Thanksgiveaway is still on! In a comment he left here last week, Firstknight announced that he intended to release a fully playable demo of his project, Beautiful Britannia,...

Ultima Online "rares" explained

Ultima Online "rares" explained

And remember: don’t miss the first annual Aiera Thanksgiveaway! Raph Koster, one of the designers who worked on Ultima Online in its early days, has an interesting article up on his website concerning “rares”...

Some neat bits of Ultima history

Some neat bits of Ultima history

This is cool. Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum alerted me to the existence of GMZ, a gaming blog that aggregates news about games (“mostly indie retro rock ‘n roll type”) with “interesting design...

What is your favourite early Ultima art style?

What is your favourite early Ultima art style?

I’m cribbing this idea directly from the Wing Commander CIC, by the way. The Ultima games have seen a tremendous evolution in their graphical styles and in-game artistry. Part of this is due to...

Thank you, Shattered Moon!

Thank you, Shattered Moon!

Shattered Moon, whom some of you may know and recognize as the developer behind Classic Ultima Online, chipped in a sizeable donation to Aiera last week, for which I am monumentally grateful. I mean,...

Ultima Return needs YOU!

Ultima Return needs YOU!

Oh noes! Sergorn Dragon informed me this morning that Kat, the editor and a main writer for Return to the Serpent Isle, has had to part ways with the team and the project for...

Added: Britannia Map for The Moon Project

Added: Britannia Map for The Moon Project

What is it? It’s a recreation, by Ryan “Zerker” Armstrong, of the entire world from Ultima 7 for The Moon Project, a science fiction RTS released in 2000 as a sequel to the excellent...