[WIP] Ultima Underworld level conversion

[Gez]

Man I really didn't remember that hidden feature with musical boulders in Ultima Underworld!

[Sir Robin]

Man I really didn't remember that hidden feature with musical boulders in Ultima Underworld!

It started as an easter egg, I wanted it so that if someone tried to pickup a rock it would shout "I wanna rock!" Then I thought, well, what if someone tries to wind a piece of string around that rock? And things just kept getting sillier from there.

Seriously though, I want to expand UW's the music system. I don't know if I want to go full-on rhythm game, but maybe something more like Zelda Ocrina of Time where you learn a few different songs that are useful in a few different places.

Funny thing about the video, I wanted to demo the more serious features I've been working on, the doors, containers, and passages. But i started with the "fun" stuff, poking grates and talking to mimics, never got around to the actual topics I set out to. Aw well, I'll hit it in another video.

The grates were another snowball effect item - it started with me wanting to hide some random things in them (grates in UW were purely decorative and none that I know of were interactive). Then I noiced many are on thin walls between rooms, I got the idea that you can't reach something and have to poke it through and then find it on the other side. Then I thought, well, what if some are mimics? And what if they swear at you when you talk to them? Yeah...

[Sir Robin]

I just dropped a new video demo of some of the new features. It's linked in the first post, and also here:

A list of features shown or mentioned in the video, and teased for a future video:

Features Shown or Mentioned:

1. Default Actions
2. Actions are Z-Sensitive
3. Action: Look
4. Action: Use
5. Active Pickup
6. Action: Pickup
7. (mentioned) Encumbrance
8. Action: Talk
9. Timed Actions
10. Crouch to Alt-Use
11. Actions are Distance-Sensitive
12. Timed Action Distractions
13. Searching a Grate
14. Keyhole Peeking
15. (mentioned) Telekinesis
16. Action: Examine to Identify
17. Non-Default Actions
18. Interface in Inventory Bar
19. (mentioned) Sleeping
20. (mentioned) Dreams
21. Combat Mode
22. (mentioned) Ledge Grab
23. (mentioned) Swimming
24. (mentioned) NPC Opinions
25. Customize Interface
26. Detecting Mimics
27. Talking through a Grate
28. Action: Examine to Search
29. Hidden Doors
30. Poking a Grate
31. Poking a Button
32. Poking a Mimic
33. Using Actions on Ceilings and Floors

Features Teased for another video:

1. Light-Giving Objects
2. Equipment and the Paperdoll
3. Passages
4. Rock Hammer (AKA Pickaxe) and Mining
5. Fishing
6. Swimming
7. Basic Doors
8. Keys & Lockpicks
9. Secret Doors
10. Remote Controlled Doors
11. Guarded Doors
12. Sneak Attack & Back Stab
13. Stealth Doors
14. Elevators and Platforms
15. Fountains, Water, The Silver Sapling
16. Containers, Nested Inventory
17. Musical Instruments
18. Easter Eggs