Over at Lost Sosaria, there is news of a new team member — Reclaimer Dragon — joining the project to assist with map development and plotting. I’m pretty jubilant about this fact, and would like to remind any interested Ultima fans out there that we can always use more help.

Also, while Googling around for something completely unrelated, I stumbled over an old Ultima “expanded universe” project: The Official Ultima7: Part 3 – Lands of the Dark Unknown. It would appear that the developers were attempting to use the Ultima 7 engine, and the early Ultima 7 editing tools, to tell the tale of what happened to the Avatar between being snatched by the Guardian at the end of Serpent Isle and being dropped into the world of Pagan.

I’ve added this project to the cemetery, as they would appear to have folded some time back in 2001, and did not leave any project files behind.

Lost Sosaria has posted a “Pre-Easter update” regarding project progress and development details. Embedded in the article is a preliminary development map of the continent featured in the game, once known as the Lands of the Dark Unknown (modified a bit to reflect damage that the continent sustained in the aftermath of Mondain’s death).

The call for additional team members to join Lost Sosaria has also been re-iterated.

Finally, they have released some preliminary requirements for running Lost Sosaria.