2008-11-24 Good news – and some unexpected screenshots!

We are very happy to announce that “Firstknight“, founder of “Forgotten World” and creator of the Ultima 9 “Freedom Mod” has returned to our project! Welcome back, Firstknight!

For the project, this means that we are going “back to the roots” again. During the last months, we had to agree that the development speed was not as fast as we would have liked it to be, especially in relation to our aims for this project. There are several reasons with the main reason being the “real life” of the team members and its duties.

While we have no plans to change our long-term targets, we are going to split this project up into smaller pieces. We call them milestones, following the example of many other Ultima fan projects. This way, we plan to have more and earlier releases of our work.

Part of the first milestones will be the Forgotten World as it was originally planned (and promised). Firstknight brings his knowledge of “modding the world with a hex editor” back to the project and there is a high chance that you will be able to “immerse yourself into the world of Britannia like never before” next year. 😉

We have added screenshots of some of the recently created work to the screenshot section and hope you enjoy them! (See the first 11 screenshots in the BB Archive)

– Hawkwind