Tagged: Ultima

Ultima 3 in PCMag's Classic Games List

Ultima 3 in PCMag's Classic Games List

PCMAG.COM did a story of 10 Classic Computer RPGs from the 1980s. The Ultima series is cited but only one of them is really shown. There are also 9 other classic games that are interesting to see.

Pax Britannia! (Updated!)

Pax Britannia! (Updated!)

Andrew Owen is working on a tile-based Ultima fan-game set between Ultima 3 and Ultima 4. He has given it the title “Pax Britannia”.

Why Do We Separate Western and Japanese RPGs?

Why Do We Separate Western and Japanese RPGs?

Craig Stern, writing at IndieRPGs, elaborates on some of the major distinctions between WRPGs and JRPGs, and argues that it’s a good thing to make the distinction between the two game styles. For the most part, I agree.

Slime attack!

Slime attack!

I got round to do the next big step in the BackToRoots engine: monster scripting. Now monsters can have a Lua script attached to them and we have a few callbacks to diversify the behavior.