Ophidian Dragon reviews Ultima 1

7th May 2008 by Dino

Ophidian Dragon has resumed posting in his blog after three weeks of inactivity. The latest post is essentially a review of Ultima 1.

10 years of La Legende d' Ultima

5th May 2008 by Dino

Since it was last mentioned here, Ophidian Dragon's blog ("Blogging Ultima") has seen a couple of updates. The first update talks about the future of the blog (and possibly future blogs by Ophidian Dragon) since Ophidian Dragon's trip through Ultima ended back in February. The more recent update is about the crossbow that Ophidian Dragon received from Lord British, and also contains a review of Akalabeth.

Meanwhile, back in March, GrahfZilla decided to quit on his Ultima blog which was similar to Ophidian Dragon's blog. His main reason is a lack of interest, which he explained in a pretty long final post.

La Legende d' Ultima has been updated a couple of times this year. The first update consists of a happy new year wish, and also announces the Ultima 6 Project's fourth milestone, which was released back in January. The more recent post, posted just a few days ago, celebrates the 10th birthday of the site. Sergorn Dragon has created a sort of history of La Legende d' Ultima to celebrate its 10th anniversary.

Not exactly Ultima-related, but the Ultima 6 Project is promoting a charity to which potential U6P donors can donate instead.

Withstand the Fury Dragon at Aiera posted a link to an article by David Wong about "The 7 Commandments All Video Games Should Obey". It's a really good read, I assure you. The last page in particular is about what Ultima fans have been complaining about (in other games) for years: "Better graphics do not equal innovation and/or creativity".

EUO turns 5 years old; U6P project updates

13th April 2008 by Petrell

EUO has turned 5 years old. To celebrate the special occasion, number of special events were held in game servers. New newbie island was also added to help new players get started.

• 5x xp on the reg server for the weekend April 5 and 6
• prizes & giveaways
• DM'd events
• eggnog & goblin master brew
• more bosses, more mega-bosses - hell, just more of everything!

I've also made a brand new interactive tutorial map called 'Newbie Island' - so if you thought EUO was in the too-hard basket before, you should give it another whirl now. I promise it will be somewhat demystified.

Corwin at RPGWatch has published the Ultima 6 Project's latest press release written by U6 Team Member Aletys. The Press Release reveals further details about new cities and places of note in the upcoming U6P fifth milestone, including the Nicodemus' keep and Penumbra's work room. It also includes call for help as the team is still looking for additional World Builders, 3D modelers, writers, 2D artists (portraits/textures, etc.) and music creators. Be sure to check it out.

Nicodemus has posted an update to his Worldbuilding Dev Diary. The update is mostly about Jhelom and it's new list field, the Pit, an area where fighters of Jhelom go to hone their combat skills. The update also features five new screenshots.

Iris2 build 2020 has been released.

There is a new xu4 daily snapshot available for Mac users.

Ranman has posted couple of updates about progress he has made with Ultima V for Ti Calculators. In his first update he lists some of the special item capabilities he has implemented and his second update deals with killing NPC's, guard behaviour and picking locks.