So many hours training a necromancer.
Really nice game.
Do you remember Ultima Online?
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Re: Do you remember Ultima Online?
#82I would love to know how it was developed - what languages, technology stack they used before Unity and other things came about to make coding a MMPORG easier.
Original lead designer here.
Quora has answers on on the tech stack in this thread: https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-technology-stack-driving-...
Reddit has answers on the rendering engine here: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/d3cd2v/anyone_know...
I contributed replies to both, but there's further detail from others.
There are piles of Ultima Online postmortem materials on my website, https://www.raphkoster.com -- and those and more are collected in my book "Postmortems."
Re: Do you remember Ultima Online?
#83No I don't.
I don't even remember which one I played more, Ultima II or Ultima III. I don't think I ever played Ultima.
Don't think any of it matters much.
Re: Do you remember Ultima Online?
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Servers still exist, but the original UO experience is well and truly dead. You can never go back again, as they say.
Servers that preserve that exact experience with those same game settings exist.
Sure we can make a UO client and a UO server that emulates the original perfectly, but UO didn't exist in a vacuum. Unless it's 2001 and UO is the only (mostly) large scale MMO in the market it's simply impossible to recreate the experience. The variety of playstyles that were forced to coexist in MMO haven't been seen since and probably won't be seen again now that it's not the only game in town anymore.
Re: Do you remember Ultima Online?
#85I would love to know how it was developed - what languages, technology stack they used before Unity and other things came about to make coding a MMPORG easier.
Original lead designer here. Quora has answers on on the tech stack in this thread: https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-technology-stack-driving-... Reddit has answers on the rendering engine here: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/d3cd2v/anyone_know... I contributed replies to both, but there's further detail from others. There are piles of Ultima Online postmortem materials on my website, https://www.raphkos…
Thanks !!!.
Re: Do you remember Ultima Online?
#86When we were kids, I didn't have a computer, however my interest in them was huge. So one day, I read about the game in a newspaper about pc games. I tell one friend, then another,etc. Fast forward half a year and the whole town was playing it. No conversation could skip the part about shields, mining and what not. Everywhere I went there was only talks about Ultima. I never plaid the game:)
That is an awesome story! OG influencer for sure. Thanks for sharing it I got kind of a big grin on my face right now thinking about that
Re: Do you remember Ultima Online?
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Servers still exist, but the original UO experience is well and truly dead. You can never go back again, as they say.
Servers that preserve that exact experience with those same game settings exist.
There is a lot more to it than that.
One could say that the world players wouldn't have it is the same, perimeter-wise rule-wise. But the people how the interacted what the Norms were and all of that other social human stuff is what we can't go back to.
And all that is a huge part of the game value for people, the Memories they have the feelings surrounding all of it.
Re: Do you remember Ultima Online?
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