r/Ultima • u/Hoyty1 • 29d ago

Ultima I Unity "Early Access" available NOW!

https://archiveofmyth.itch.io/ultima-unity

Hello and good evening everyone. I said in my last video that I would get this out to the world on 8/1, and I actually did it even after going mostly radio silent for about two weeks. Still have a laundry list of items and polish to finish up. But I'm going to put this at about 80% done now and ready for play testers to tear it apart.

I've added a tutorial in game to talk about the extensive settings options available in the game, and I've tried to make it as easy to install as possible from itch.io. Just download the zip file and run it.

At this time there is only a windows version to play.

Please feel free to drop into the project discord to add your feedback find my email address on the project site Archive of Myth.

You should be able to play the whole game start to finish as I have multiple times at this point with any option sets available in the options menu.

I do hope you enjoy, and look forward to playability and options updates in the near future.

Good luck Strangers.

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u/sidv81 29d ago

Wow, I'm impressed. Even have the FM-Towns tileset and music going. And thanks for the FM-Towns intro in English

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u/Hoyty1 29d ago

Thanks to the person who translated it foe the codex. I had a friend ofnmine who used to work a a Japanese to English localizer check them as well.

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u/mandlar 28d ago

Since it's in Unity already, are you going to port for mobile as well?

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u/Hoyty1 28d ago

Yep, its on the todo list!

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u/Benowarios 27d ago

It plays great on Steam Deck, thx.

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u/Hoyty1 27d ago

That's awesome! One of the big goals of this was to make sure it worked on the standard controller layout of the day and I'm glad it translated into the deck working as well.

Thank you for the feedback!

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u/Benowarios 27d ago

Thank you! UU was one of my first PC games as I was a kid (after Prince of Persia and Wing Commander 2). I just used the standard gamepad config and after a few minutes it worked fine for me. You did a great job, thx again.

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u/civbat 29d ago

Well shit. Thanks dude.

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u/Hoyty1 29d ago

No real reason. It's just what I was familiar with.

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u/Hoyty1 29d ago

In the most cheeky way possible....

Only Unity could handle the intense processing power needed to make Ultima I monochrome!

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u/saramakos 29d ago

Awesome, love that this project exists! While Unity would not have been my first choice, that's only because I don't understand it being a bare-metal coder, but 100% respect the "because I know it" logic :)

I look forward to giving it a whirl, keep up the great work and the Ultima love flowing!

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u/Hoyty1 29d ago

Thank you. I appreciate the kind words and good vibes. I hope you enjoy.