Ur-Quan Masters Screenshots Following the link chain from Erol Otus Interview to An interview with fantasy artist Erol Otus to The Ur-Quan Masters I ended up wasting a few hours playing this game. Multi-platform (Windows, Mac OSX, various GNU/Linux and BSD variants) awesome using astroid-like navigation when in combat (turn you ship clockwise or counter-clockwise, thrust, and shoot) with lots of weird aliens that you need to convince of an alliance.
An interview with fantasy artist Erol Otus
The Ultronomicon is the Ur-Quon Master wiki. Go to the non-spoiler hints and look at the *First Things To Do* page. 😄
Also, check out Wikipedia’s Star Control for some context. The Ur-Quon Master game is equivalent to Star Control II. Originally published in 1992!
Makes me want to play Ultima IV again; the xu4 port is available for Windows and Mac OS X, gratis but not Free Software. I love using a ship and firing those cannonballs at monsters!
Also check out Old Guy RPG Blog’s work on a player’s handbook for Ultima, I-III, OD&D style.
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I managed to waste the entire day playing *Ur-Quan Masters* and *Ultima IV* instead of drawing maps or preparing my D&D games.
– Alex Schroeder 2009-05-02 01:05 UTC
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How can a day playing Ultima IV be wasted?
– Sektat 2009-05-03 09:17 UTC
