Games By Me
Ultima 1: The First Age of Darkness
I am remaking Ultima 1 in C# and XNA. It is not going to be a 1:1 remake as it will be relatively consistent with later Ultimas (i.e. no science-fiction elements, the Strange From Another World (i.e. the main character) cannot be an elf, dwarf or bobbit. There will not be clerics, but rather druids. There will also be a lot more plot and interactivity than the original Ultima allowed and a single scale map allowing you to explore the massive 4 continents of Sosaria.
Plot: The Stranger From Another World is summoned to the world of Sosaria by the ailing Lord British. The wicked archmage Mondain has ascended through the use of his dark magics and gem of immortality and only by collecting the gems that contain the essence of the Time Lord can the god-like Mondain be slain. These gems will summon a silver moongate, allowing the Stranger to slay Mondain before he completes the gem of immortality.
You can see footage of the remake here.
This is a work in progress though any assistance (especially graphical) would be appreciated. Currently I have a 2D engine with limited combat resolution.
Doctor Who: Tardis Trouble
This is my first attempt at a point and click adventure game and this is v0.5 (there is a more polished version I will post in a few months or so, as it is in Scotland and I am not).
My intention here was to create a point-and-click adventure game in the vein of Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and The Fate of Atlantis featuring my favourite doctor who never was, the Eighth Doctor. The Soup of Doom was meant to be the full episode, reuniting the Doctor and Grace Holloway and loosely based on The Fallen, an Eighth Doctor comic. Truth be told it was a little ambitious - the actual coding is easy but producing sprites and backgrounds to a sufficiently high level seemed to be a bit beyond me. I might return to this and write a second, much longer episode called "Castle of the Daleks" at some point. Particularly if anyone wants to produce some castle backgrounds.
Anyroads, download this game here - courtesy of myxcp.net (12 MB) or on this site (slower), unzip and run doctorwho.exe. A full list of credits are included in the game.
Ultima V: Lazarus
Ultima V: Lazarus is a remake of the classic game Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny, one of the games in the amazing Ultima series. It's an amazing game - with a complete soundtrack and hundreds of professionally drawn portraits. My involvement in this game was to write some of the dialog tree for a few characters. There is a ton of characters to interact with an a virtual world to explore! Most of the dialog I did was ultimately replaced but I did write the finished dialog for my favourite companion, Sentri, and Elistaria.
The game requires Dungeon Siege 1 (patched to the latest version). It is much better than Dungeon Siege - it simply uses that engine!