@vga256 Starting with Akalabeth which is #Ultima Zero, basically. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akalabeth:_World_of_Doom

#retrogaming #opensource #linux #raspberrypi #apple2 #videogame #emulation

Received my #clockworkpi #uConsole recently. Now I can play #ultima using a full keyboard on a handheld device.

https://www.clockworkpi.com/uconsole

Been working on a #InteractiveFiction / #RPG for the last few years called Starlight Dawn https://starlightdawn.online

It's a tile-based RPG you play in the browser, no sign up. Your location is saved in LocalStorage, so it's something you can play with now, then come back later.

The world is quite large (49 maps comprising over 100K tiles and almost 1,000 characters). If you were ever into the #Ultima games you will enjoy this.

Separate account you can follow: https://mastodon.art/@starlightdawn

My Ultima IV video looks like it's going to be 4-5 hours long. This is an analytical playthrough with a focus on narrative, latest in a series on the franchise. I cut out all the grinding.

If you watch this kind of deep-dive, what kind of length do you prefer? #retrogaming #crpg #Ultima #narrativeDesign

PS. For those of you who labored through the dungeons of Ultima 3 - Exodus, you'll no doubt remember those "STRANGE WINDS!" in that game...

#ttrpg #crpg #ultima

back in '03 i spent two weeks in urban japan, exploring its many train stations and alleys

imagine my shock at finding not only an #Ultima Online ad on a billboard, but *showing it running on a flip phone five years after I had stopped playing it*

i was always mystified by the billboard, and thought about it on and off for 20 years

i was finally able to track down the story behind the ad. it turned out to be a real game, but *not* #UO was we know it.

Ultima Online Mobile Edition was a completely different final fantasy-style pixel art combat game for the NTT DoCoMo network. it even had a monster/pet breeding minigame.

sadly, the game is lost to time - the game was only playable on a handful of japanese handsets, and no one ever thought to dump it before it disappeared.

what little information we have about it linked below. thank you to @bombbloke for their help in tracking this all down:

https://k--tai-watch-impress-co-jp.translate.goog/cda/article/news_toppage/13544.html?_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en

https://www-itmedia-co-jp.translate.goog/mobile/0304/09/n_appdx.html?_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en

https://web.archive.org/web/20030409062708/http://www.dwango.co.jp/press/release/press_r_c20030408.html

#20yrsago #Ultima’s economic indicators http://www.juliandibbell.com/playmoney/2003_08_01_playmoney_archive.html#106022990884580908

#15yrsago #TrafficCams bring in $250,000/month in a town with a $4.6 million budget https://web.archive.org/web/20080813150522/https://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/47592.html

#15yrsago #WalMart: you can’t scan century-old photos of your ancestors because copyright lasts forever https://www.flickr.com/groups/100_years_old/discuss/72157594167106526/

#15yrsago Janes in Love: #GraphicNovel is a call-to-art for young people https://memex.craphound.com/2008/08/12/janes-in-love-graphic-novel-is-a-call-to-art-for-young-people/

5/

Ultima IV

https://blog.kevinbrill.com/2023/08/ultima-iv.html

#GamesThatMadeMe #Blaugust2023 #UltimaIV #Ultima

Interesting new #cRPG #cRPGs release that mixes #Ultima and #scifi to give you an entire galaxy to explore. There was a prototype of this game released in english a couple of years ago but this is the first release of the re-developed full version in english

https://gamopat-studio.itch.io/cosmos-chronicles-international-edition-atari-st-windows

Is Lord British on here? #retrogaming #Ultima #crpg #retrogames

#10GamesToKnowMe

#MassEffect
#Undertale
#BaldursGate and #IcewindDale
#KnightsOfTheOldRepublic
#LifeIsStrange
#FinalFantasy7
#Ultima 4-8, we don't talk about 9
#Journey
#Hades
#WorldOfWarcraft

#retrogaming #Ultima

here's a bit of japanese culture rarely talked about in the plethora of nintendo/console/FF-centric history: the long love affair with the #ultima series in .jp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YED3hyExk4&feature=youtu.be

#TenGamesToKnowMe

#SimCity (1989)
#TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland (1990)
#Ultima VII Part 1 & 2 (1992)
#Doom (1993)
#CommandAndConquer (1995)
#X-COM: Terror From The Deep (1995)
#Diablo (1997)
#SystemShock 2 (1999)
#DarkAgeOfCamelot (2001)
#NeverwinterNights (2002)

Bonus Game:
#WingCommander: Privateer (1993)

Recently I've enjoyed two YouTube series: @mcoorlim 's #retro #Ultima playthrus: https://youtu.be/lFCs_cDvTi4
and Challacade's #gamdev Recreating Zelda: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqPLyUreLV8D3Ckd_9UFNvEpg4xCvbL1a

This made me think of an old idea I had: making a web-based Ultima-like framework that allows others to make 2d rpgs (a little like #bitsy). Would be great if this was combined with a series of videos looking into Ultima's rpg features in depth. Sound interesting to anyone?

Machs gut Duke Nukem - heute heißt es Abschied nehmen. Aber die Trauer währt nur kurz. Es geht endlich wieder in die Keller von Ultima Underworld und vielleicht ist noch bisschen Zeit für Star Trek 25th Anniversary #retro #retrogaming #retrogamer #retrogames #twitchde #twitch #twitchstream #streamer #twitchstreamer #pc #pcdos #sierra #spacequest #rogerwilco #dukenukem #dukenukem3d #startrek #startrekgame #startrek25thanniversary #Ultima #UltimaUnderworld

Time Extension: Why Do So Many Japanese RPGs Use European-Style Fantasy Worlds?
Time Extension has come up here a lot lately, hasn't it? It's because they so often do
https://setsideb.com/time-extension-why-do-so-many-japanese-rpgs-use-european-style-fantasy-worlds/
#niche #retro #dragonquest #dungeonsanddragons #fantasy #garygygax #genericfantasyland #hiromasaiwasaki #johnszczepaniak #jrpg #niche #retro #ricamatsumura #rpg #tedwoolsey #timeextension #tropes #ultima #wizardry #ys #zelda

Please suggest #CRPG or #adventure games with environment-interaction on at least the level of #Ultima 5++, Divine Divinity, Divinity: Original Sin, #Oblivion, Skyrim, #Nethack, or a well-modeled #Infocom /
#MagneticScrolls / #TADS / #Inform -level #TextAdventure — objects are movable or at least destructible, items “physically” exist in the world and aren’t just transfered from one menu to another (inventory), things can be in or on other things…

I am tired of games that are all gloss and surface with just the plot-relevant things being interactable.

Bonus points for elemental physics (water, fire, etc.), day/night/weather/climate, and basic needs simulation like needing to stay warm, fed, etc.

Reluctant malus points for pure dungeon crawls, although I do in principle adore games like Arx Fatalis, Dark Messiah of M&M, and Monomyth.

Serious malus points for turn-based games with party micro-management. Single-player much preferred.

Fantasy also much preferred.

One of my favorite things to say regarding ultima is that it was created in my very own neighborhood. Richard Garriott grew up literally down the street from my house. Back then, it was all farm land. The only reason #Ultima has space ships and lasers and stuff is because Lord British was the son of an Astronaut, lol.

I can't say enough how, in the 80's, literally every kid who grew up in this area was absolutely 100% in love with #NASA. They were the absolute coolest.

I'm replaying #Ultima I for the first time since 1999 and have forgotten how crappy the controls are in the space portion of the game after you get the space shuttle and have to fight the tie-fighters.

Great, great game tho. One hell of a start for the computer #RPG genre.