Ultima: Aiera
an Ultima Project archive site
Last updated: April 4th, 2007
Filed under Joke Remakes
Produced by: Garrett Birkel
Website: Untima 9
Releases:
* Untima IX 0.55v6 (Macintosh OS X)
* Untima Mac Source
* Untima PC Source
Unlike Ultimuh, this is a rather more competently-made spoof that features a graphic tileset very similar to what one might expect to see in Ultima 3 or Ultima 4.
And wheras Ultimuh was essentially intended as a mockery of the Ultima games, Untima plays out as a genuine game experience, spoofing some of the finer points of the series and drawing on a few other pop-culture sources as well (as Lord Finnish sends you to dispatch the dreaded monster Bunnicula).
And like many of the earlier Ultima games, Untima was put together by one man.
Last updated: April 4th, 2007
Filed under Joke Remakes
Produced by: Nuclear Meltdown Productions
Website: Nuclear Meltdown Productions
Releases:
* Ultimuh
A handful of teenaged programmers threw this take on the Ultima series together. It’s not great satire in that it’s a side-scrolling game (an engine style Ultima never explored, thankfully), but it makes homage to the Old English diction of most of the Ultima series, the occasionally enigmatic plots of the games, and the often repetitive actions one has to undergo to pass an Ultima title.
The graphics are…well, they’re painful, but it’s an intentional kind of painful.
Last updated: April 4th, 2007
Filed under Joke Remakes
Produced by: DGMacphee
Releases:
* Ultimerr
Another satirical look at the Ultima series, this time featuring a loosely isometric game engine. A short little title, you play the role of Abitar, who is sent on a quest to find the White Gem of Anthrax so that you might defeat the evil Prince Foreskin.
Or some such.
Last updated: April 4th, 2007
Filed under Joke Remakes
Produced by: Evil_Freak Dragon
Website: Great title, eh?
A whimsical tale of some of the original Ultima remake project teams, the use of the Dungeon Siege engine, and other community in-jokes. Truth be told, it’s just good absurdist humour.
Last updated: April 4th, 2007
Filed under Joke Remakes
Produced by: UltimarX Team
Website: HELLO AND WELCOME
They believed that no true Ultima fan felt that Ascension was a proper ending to the series, so they set out to open up possibilities that players have never even thought of before (or so they claim).
This project hasn’t posted news since 2005, but we eagerly await news of it’s continued development…er…uh…just as soon as the Dungeon Siege 3 engine that they are using to make it gets…er…developed?
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