Produced by: Hawkwing, Iceblade, and Nimdraug
Website: Forgotten World
Releases:
* Freedom Mod 1.0

Forgotten World started as a ‘Freedom Mod‘ for Ascension, assembled by Michael Menapace in response to the rather absurdly linear feel to the plot of this last Ultima title. The mod didn’t do much to alter the order of events in the game, or to change at all the inconsistencies encountered in Ultima 9’s plot. What it does do, however, is alter some aspects of the structure of Britannia, eliminating obstacles that previously prevented you from roaming the land of Britannia freely.

Eventually, the project grew and a team joined FIrstkniGHT, who eventually left the project as he could no longer work on it. The project got its own website and grew more ambitious, decoding Ascension game files to provide players with a better experience. Currently, they are in the process of implementing a world-editor, a first step on the road to turning Ultima 9 — using its original, promising engine (albeit assisted, now, with a little help from the OGRE 3D engine as well) — into a canonical, consistent-with-its-predecessors Ultima game.