Classic Game Postmortem: Ultima Online

 

This video is hosted at the GDCVault.

https://gdcvault.com/play/1016629/Classic-Game-Postmortem-Ultima

The session was very informal — don’t expect a lot of actually useful development takeaways, five things that went well and five poorly in Gamasutra-approved format, any of that. Instead, it’s mostly war stories and anecdotes.

A thing you cannot see in the vid — when at the very start Starr asks how many people in the room worked on UO, a lot of people in the room stood up. And when asked who played — it was almost everyone. A nice moment.