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2017-02-07 New Section - The Journal
Written by Iceblade
I have added a new section to the site that will be referenced as the Journal. This section provides a few at the largely completed passages being incorporated into the Journal for the Forgotten World Project. Similar to the Ultima IX Journal, this book serves as the in-universe game manual providing background lore and details about the game world and features you can expect to find in the final product.
In fiction, this journal is the last edition of a travel guide and journal produced by A...
2017-01-06 Updates
Written by Iceblade
Just a quick front page update. Progress continues on the patch. You can read more about that at the Patch Updates page, which is now up to 4 articles. I have also been silently updating the Patch Status page. The last update date is on the page, so you can see when the latest progress occurred. One major note about the patch is that I will need to finish my trigger editor in order to fix some of the more involved scripting bugs, so the patch won't be finished until March or April. This is b...
2016-12-27/28 Next Patch Details
Written by Iceblade
As I have previously mentioned, I will be providing two "Final Ultimate Patches" for Ultima IX. I have just drafted the list of 52 items for development for the first of these patches. It will cover all of the remaining correctable Serious Faults and Major Bugs in Ultima IX. This list contains 8 Serious Problems, 12 Major Bugs, 13 Minor Issues, 14 Aspects for Polish, and 5 Parts that will have additions made. While this seems like a large list in and of itself, it is board in scope and diffi...
2016-12-25 Merry Christmas! We're not dead.
Written by Iceblade
For those of you who are regularly on UDIC Facebook, you will probably have seen me comment on Forgotten World's status. For those who haven't seen my comments, the gist is that I've been pre-occupied with my Dissertation over the past two years and this effort involved a significantly greater portion of my attention. Since I've graduated, I am now able to devote some decent amount of time per week to Forgotten World. In other news, there is a major change with regards to the project. Last ye...
2015-01-28 Some design work and a poll
Written by Iceblade
So what news do I have? Well there is some big behind-the-scenes work that is going on right now. In addition, I have been working on a bit of design work here and there. In particular right now, I am designing a new combat framework for use with Forgotten World. It is a major overhaul of how combat works, and there are some big changes included. For one, stats will be point-based rather than level-based and can be increased during gameplay as well as by cleansing shrines. One area that has ...
2015-01-01 Patch Update
Written by Iceblade
After running into that crash with my work in progress patch, I found myself needing to devote a much greater share of my time to my career. I haven't been able to spend any time on dealing with the crash and I won't be able to spend any time on it for the near term. I probably won't be posting any more news until such time as the patch is ready for beta - barring major news related to other project aspects.
- Iceblade
2014-10-30 FW Patch Update
Written by Iceblade
A quick update about the patch. I've found a rather annoying crash issue with one of my changes, so I'll be dealing with that over the next few days. I've also found it difficult finding the time and motivation to play through the game, which has slowed things down as well.
In other news, I'm looking for a texture/2D artist. The primary job I have available is adding talking animations to all of the npcs. The "animation" mechanic is nothing more than a series of facial images in various ...
2014-10-19 Fixed and Fixes
Written by Iceblade
It has been almost a month and I have some important news to relate. First up, our editor can now alter and add fixed objects. For some clarification, Ultima IX's maps are split into three files: terrain, fixed objects, and nonfixed objects. Terrain obviously deals with height maps, liquids (water and lava mainly), and ground textures. The fixed object file largely contains scenery and buildings; essentially anything that shouldn't be moved (ie fixed) and that doesn't need a property. In fa...
2014-09-26 Back at it
Written by Iceblade
So what has been happening since March. Well, I had a lot of distractions in April and my summer was particularly busy and demotivating. Also much of the past 6 weeks have been spent Banished in a medieval city builder. Of course, I built several Ultima towns including a somewhat limited recreation of U7's Britain increased to a population size of over 200.Now what progress am I here to report. Well, I did my rewriting/reorganizing of the activity editor back in March and it is effectively fin...
2014-03-19 Site Updates
Written by Iceblade
Hello again,
I've found myself tracking down memory lane (with the aide of the Wayback machine) and I've found a few things that I've sent toward to the Codex. Anyway, I got to going through the old versions and news from our own site and decided to improve the archival viewing. I've gone through all of the old news articles and fixed up the links as well as providing screenshot references to our archived screenshots located under the Legacy (version 1.0 of Forgotten World), BB Archive (sc...
2014-03-15 Meanwhile in Britannia
Written by Iceblade
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the release of Ultima VIII. That journey that the Avatar took, quite unwillingly, in the sunless realm of Pagan. This journey will see the Avatar follow much darker paths and face his greatest moral quandary: remain on Pagan and allow the Guardian to add more worlds and power to his domain or doom the people of Pagan in the hopes of seeking out and stopping the Guardian.
Meanwhile in the far fairer lands of Britannia. The kingdom continues to recover from...
2014-03-04 Welcome to version 3.0
Written by Iceblade
Welcome Forgotten World and Beautiful Britannia followers to the our new site.
We have finally upgraded Joomla and with it we have made some changes to improve your browsing experience whether it be computer or mobile. We have created an account with Google plus for our screenshots, with an embedded gallery designed for both computer and mobile visitors. In addition, we can have implemented a menu bar across the top of the site with multi-layer drop down submenus. Must of the site structure i...