2011-09-12 Minor News

Just a few minor updates today.

We are glad to welcome Asmon to the Forgotten World team.  He will be joining the Forgotten World Design Team as well as helping me add new books into the game.  In addition, he will be one of our world builders when the FW world builder is ready.  Also, I have made a few updates to the FW project page.  The main change was a note regarding the size of FW, which currently is planned to be greater than 4 times the size of Ultima IX’s surface map, which is allow for greater town separation and more islands.

In other news, I will admit that little progress has been made in the past week or so on decoding UIX’s triggers and properties.  Even so, work is progressing on a map saving function for our World Builder, which involves actually rebuilding the map files from scratch rather than just editing the original files.  So this will indeed be a big step toward a complete World Builder once all of the bugs have been ironed out.

On the design side, plenty of progress is being made currently and many details from dungeons to towns to overall plot are becoming more fully developed.

I also recently played through Ultima IX, and I now have a better idea of why certain bugs are occurring, so when I have some time I will start to work on that part.  First up, though, is finishing up my bug fixes for other issues such as music transitions for Minoc and Valoria and one or two other bugs I’ve been working on.  Hopefully, I will have it completed soon.

– Iceblade