This is off-topic but I would just like to thank you for your contributions to Ultima 7. It is by far my favorite game.

Thanks! Amusing trivia - everyone on the development team got to be an NPC in the game, meaning the character looked like them. I joined late, so every character was taken except for a cyclops named Iskander.

So the cyclops looks like me, but with one big eye.

http://wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Iskander

Ultima 7 (parts 1 and 2) are also my favorite games ever! I almost have "real" memories from the worlds and plotlines in those games, they were so vivid.

Out of curiosity, what was your role on Ultima 7? Do you know of any good articles or resources on the development of that game?

I was the lead scripting developer and general content fixer... I helped the world builders and hacked on their tools etc. I was 20 at the time so my title in the credits was "Wonderboy"

I haven't seen a lot of writing about that time but man it deserves it.

Wow you know I always knew that Ultima Online had its predecessors in the Ultima series but never really researched them until now. Its blowing my mind right now to see the evolution of the games leading up to UO!

Currently been working on my own FPS for 1.5 years in UE4 (hoping to release a trailer soon) and I owe a lot to Ultima for inspiring me to learn game dev at a young age. I know Richard Garriot has been working on what is effectively UO2 with Shroud of the Avatar but sadly have not had the time to check it out.

Interesting. I found PC 100x more frustrating than console. With console there's 1 target. With PC there's infinite targets. No matter what you ship it won't work on someone's GPU, OS version, with XYZ installed.

A company I worked at shipped one PC game and swore never again. Their support costs went through the roof relative to console.

Yes, I think that was actually easier in the 90s (and I only did 2d games, which were simpler).

I loved Ultima 7.

An amazing feat for the time! The world simulation aspect of it was really cool (and something even now you don't see that often. Like a baker going to through process of baking bread everyday)

Netstorm was an underrated Gem. Have you seen much like it since?

Thanks!

No, it seems to have been its own odd thing with no followers. There's some fans trying to remake it in Unity though. They've got quite a lot of it done: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=29400...

I loved netstorm. One of the best games ever, thank you :)