Two Weeks in Brittania

September 28, 2009 - FAIRFAX, Va. - Mythic Entertainment, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) studio, today announced the Return to Britannia Campaign in celebration of the 12-year anniversary of Ultima Online (UO). As part of the Return to Britannia Campaign, all former players are being welcomed back to UO, one of the longest-running MMORPGs in history, for unlimited free game play through October 16th. Closed accounts in good standing have been re-activated, and former players can log back into the game using their original user name and passwords.

New content available to returning players through the Return to Britannia Campaign includes Mondain's Legacy, the 7th UO expansion which introduced the playable Elven race and dangerous, new dungeons to explore. Mondain's Legacy was made available at no charge in August 2009 to existing subscribers and to new players as part of the Ultima Online 14-day free trial.

"We're hoping that, as part of the Return to Britannia Campaign, former players will once again rediscover the joys of Ultima Online," said Jeff Hickman, Executive Producer for Mythic Entertainment. "UO was the first love of many MMORPG players, and it still holds a special place in their hearts after 12 glorious years. I think returning players will be pleasantly surprised to find a thriving and vibrant community from around the world ready to welcome back their former compatriots and include them in their ongoing adventures."

Players returning to Ultima Online through the Return to Britannia Campaign can download and install the UO client for free at: http://www.uoherald.com/trial/. Players who no longer have access to their Ultima Online username and password can retrieve their account information at: http://support.ea.com.

Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss, the 8th expansion was released earlier this month and revolves around the introduction of the playable Gargoyle race. Players will also find expansive new areas to explore, including Ter Mur, the Gargoyle homeland, and the Stygian Abyss – the largest dungeon area ever introduced to Ultima Online. This sprawling dungeon contains new boss monsters of unparalleled difficulty, including the Medusa, Primeval Lich and the Stygian Dragon, as well as Player vs. Player zones where adventurers are turned against one another. Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss is now available at UOGamesCodes.com and the EA STORE for $29.99.

To learn more about Ultima Online, visit: www.uo.com.

Making the Game: Incident Report

Today we feature the original form of the famous 'Blue Horizon' lost fiction. The odd thing isn't so much the content of the document itself, which was posted over ten years ago, but the context -- it's included with the other fiction files, but with a file name distinct from all the others (which specify week/placement/etc.). Could this be why it didn't end up at the finished website?

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Incident Report Download (43 kb) Date: July 7, 1998 Project: Wing Commander Secret Ops Donated By: John Guentzel Pages: 4

Enigma Baddies Get SixView Treatment

Making the Game: Casey Report

Following yesterday's pattern, this is a collection of all of Casey's "diary entries" planned for Secret Ops. As with yesterday's document, it includes a more nuanced set of text options based on performance in multiple previous episodes -- especially an increased amount of self-loathing if you fail multiple previous episodes.

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Captain Report Download (61 kb) Date: July 8, 1998 Project: Wing Commander Secret Ops Donated By: John Guentzel Pages: 10

Broadsword Brings Big Boom

This particular Broadsword has downed numerous enemy fighters, two Fralthis, a Ralatha, and a Fraltha. It's also expended several dozen torpedoes.

Making the Game: Captain Report

We're moving on from Wing Commander Prophecy to a limited amount of material from its sequel, Wing Commander Secret Ops. Primarily, we'll be looking at draft and collected versions of the famous web fiction -- but there will be some other treats included. This document is an earlier version of all Captain Murkins' (known here as Captain [Name]) 'pre-series' reports. The most interesting thing is that they seem to have been originally developed as something much more interactive; some of the later updates include optional text that would be displayed depending on overall performance rather than just whether or not the previous series was won.

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Captain Report Download (15 kb) Date: July 8, 1998 Project: Wing Commander Secret Ops Donated By: John Guentzel Pages: 14

Hakaga Wallpaper's Explosive End

Sorry for the long time without any update, but I spent a good portion of it reading 3ds Max and Photoshop tutorials. My original goal was actually to use only what was available in Standoff, but I realized that Deep Exploration is just not capable of what I was aiming for. I used a friend's 3ds Max and made some nice laser beams and stuff, but Deep Exploration doesn't support them and when I tried to export my scene to 3dsmax, everything was messed up. So basically i was left with no alternative but to use Photoshop (or redo everything from the start).

Crash, Boom & Bang Your Way To Victory

The new poll asks which capital ships are your favorite to attack. We've narrowed down the results to just the "bad guys," and just some of the more notorious ones from key games. There's a wide range of strike missions represented by these choices. Are you more into torpedo runs under intense flak? Hitting picket ships in your Tarsus on the frontier? Dropping a flashpak on a flight deck? Defanging the beast? Or teaming up with half a dozen friends and picking apart a huge battlecruiser in the Antares Quadrant?

Our annual birthday poll has run its course, and it's provided some interesting results. Half of our visitors have been coming to the CIC since 2000 or earlier, and almost half of those people have been around since the mid 1990s. And as great as having such a loyal user base is, we're still attracting new faces. More than 10% of active Wingnuts didn't find us until after the release of Wing Commander Arena! Thanks for coming! You're why we keep updating every day.

Report For Active Duty

Happy Birthday Wing Commander!

Arena's Concept Excalibur Added to WCCD

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Trooper Beefs Up Bengal (For a Limited Time)

When I come to starting the bridge I will sketch it out first, but in the mean time I put some prop turrets on to see how an uber dreadnaught hybrid would look! Also started to colour code the surfaces for texture later.

When I got started with 3d modeling on my A1200 and real 3d, I tried to do a basic layout of a Star Trek ship to do some animations. I ended up with just a corridor section and a couple of rooms that took forever just to model the layout. So I stopped there and started animating, then left the good old A1200 for a month or so to render the scene! ~~~ Got about 5 people walking from room to room with doors opening and closing. Looked good but very basic, decided not to attempt it again as it stopped me from playing my fave game from the time: good old WC1.

Garriott Bullish on Space

Steven Andrew: When did you first decide you were going to go into space?

Richard Garriott (RG): I can't remember ever not thinking it. I grew up in Houston, just outside NASA's Johnson Space Center. My father, Owen Garriot, spent 60 days on Skylab in 1973 and another ten days on a Spacelab in 1983, my next door neighbor was Space Shuttle astronaut Robert "Hoot" Gibson. So I grew up thinking this is normal, that's just what people did, they built rockets and flew into space.

SA: Would you do it again?

RG: Not only would I do it again, I am going to do it again. This is what I do. I and several other high technology business people are investing big in commercial space, establishing incentives for engineers and students to try their hand at coming up with better designs. We're designing a new generation of rockets, labs, and planning the first permanent settlements in space and on the moon or Mars.

Answer this: Suppose I told you that you could go to Mars but there's one catch -- it's a one way trip. You can go there, and when you get there you'll be able to live, there will be shelter, air and food, and power; but no coming back. This is actually a realistic question, because, getting to Mars, as challenging as that is, due to orbital mechanics, the dynamic relationship between an outer and inner planet, is a lot easier in terms of the duration of the trip and the fuel and other supplies required, than getting back. When I ask that question to a group of people, the answers usually come back half and half. Half say no, but half say yes. There's no doubt in my mind that some of the people who say yes mean it.

Source Ships Supply Sexy SixViews

Interesting sidenote: if you believe the filenames, during development the Centurion was labelled "Fighter", the Galaxy "Merchantman", the Orion "Tug" and the Tarsus appropriately "Clunker".

Congratulations FPJ!

Get Your Fancy Standoff Icon Here

WCCD: Upgraded Stingray

We all remember the Stingray, once they formed up, wow some firepower they were packing! Well one of the things I decided was that ALL the nephilim ships needed to be revamped, not just a few. I'll have the new Stingray that will be used in the game engine sometime tomorrow... Stay tuned

Banshee Body Comes Together

"Commander's Challenge" Would Make a Great WC Title

“With more than thirty hours of fun and compelling RTS entertainment, Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Commander’s Challenge delivers the ultimate RTS gameplay experience console players have been waiting for,” said Wes Eckhart, Producer of Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Commander’s Challenge at EA Los Angeles. “Each of the 50 challenges throws players into unique scenarios full of over-the-top twists and challenges. From armies of Japanese school girls and giant Soviet war bears to wrestling legend Ric Flair and more, Commander’s Challenge offers fresh and fun gameplay at an unbeatable price.”

Bengal Bombers Beat Baktosh's Brood

Do'h! I forgot a step. The wear and tear on the paint itself - I completely blanked on that. My apologies - here are some updated version.

GamePro's Most Wanted Franchise Resurrections

Part flight simulator, part space opera, the Wing Commander series was light-years (ha!) ahead of other flight games of its time. By sharing the focus between the personal interactions with your squad mates and fast paced, white-knuckles-on-joystick action, the WC games made dogfighting through the stars against the Kilrathi Armada a believable and truly emotional experience, one which I would love to find myself in again.

Custom Prophecy Mission: Midway Defense

Okay Lieutenant, we have to be brief. 2 Hours ago a Nephilim Carrier Fleet entered the Vega System. Their fighters destroyed the first few lines of defense, and somehow, a large Moray Fighter group snuck past the Confederation Fleet. When our scanners picked up the group, we sent several fighter wings to intercept. Sadly, the wings failed. The Moray group is headed right at us. A Kilrathi wing will be within range to assist us when you launch, and the last of our forces, a few Wasps, are already fighting the group. Quickly get out there and destroy those Morays. The other wings have already transfered to your wing, just get out there and fight for your home.

1. Download the external missions patch file from here and extract the contents into your Prophecy directory.
2. Double click on patch.exe to run it.
3. Place the contents of your chosen mission zip in the Prophecy\Mission directory and rename the .mis file to s0.mis.
4. Run Prophecy and play the Sim 0 mission from the simulator, which will now have been replaced by the mission of your choice.

Arena Needs Company

Dive Into Hakaga Hell

The very empty looking lower right corner is reserved for an awesome exploding Sabre once I figure out how to do it. And the laser beams look like crap. If I don't find a proper solution I'll have to add them with Photoshop.

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Bengal Gets Second Push

WCCD Devastator Bulking Up

New Achievement System for Standoff Simulator

• Quick Ace: chain 5 quick kills
• Every Shot Counts: maintain a gun accuracy of 70% or better in a successful mission
• Solo flying: player is credited with 100% of the kills in a successful mission

Rocky Exoplanet Discovered

Brilliant Broadsword Brightens Blackness

Broadsword Boasts Bold Biography

Camelot Industry's Broadsword is one of the Terran Confederation's most succesful spacecraft designs; Broadswords served on and off from 2633 to 2701--across multiple wars and for several different factions. The bombers were originally designed during the Pilgrim War to support the Grand Fleet's invasion of the Pilgrim Alliance. Early CF-131 Broadswords served as massed missile platforms and strategic ship-to-planet bombers.

With the advent of the Kilrathi war and the development of the torpedo, Broadswords changed to fit the times. In 2648 all current model Broadswords were outfitted to carry two antimatter torpedoes. That number would eventually double, by 2664, and then double again, by 2701. Broadswords became the Confederation's heaviest anti-capship bomber for the middle portion of the war; Broadswords flying off the Tiger's Claw, Concordia and elsewhere achieved great success in dangerous torpedo runs.

After the end of the Kilrathi War, the Confederation relegated Broadswords to reserve wings and boneyards.

Zachary Banfield's Guild maintained two squadrons of Broadswords which were used to attack the FRLS Mjollnir and destroy the FRLS Sindri. The Landreich themselves operated a number of Broadswords during the Kilrathi War, fielding them during the Battle of Hell Hole.

The Union of Border Worlds operated a number of Broadswords during their aborted war with the Terran Confederation. Admiral Tolwyn was, at one point, captured by a stripped patrol Broadsword as he attempted to flee the Peleus System.

But the Nephilim invasion of 2681 reactivated Broadsword squadrons - and proved that they were incredibly effective against the new foe. Production of Broadswords resumed, with modernized variants like the Executor, Warpig and later Behemoth rolling off the assembly lines.

In the post-Nephilim War world, surplus Broadswords are a common sight on the volatile Terran-Kilrathi frontier.

Frightening Foes Coming to Your Desktop

The Standoff model is just too awesome and the Hakaga's shape makes it very intimidating when you see it flying towards you. I'm no artist and did it more or less for my own desktop, but if you have any suggestions regarding angle, lighting or anything, feel free to enlighten me.

Standoff Patch Primes Scoreboard Update

Catscratch Fever

Mark Dacascos, who played Troy Carter (A.K.A. Catscratch) in Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom, is going to be on the upcoming season of Dancing with the Stars, paired with a professional dancer named Lacey Schwimmer.

Mark's background as a Martial Artist alongside his acting career should suit him well as learning dance steps probably isn't that dissimilar to learning various martial arts moves, or memorizing the moves for an action scene in one of his movies. The new season of Dancing with the Stars premieres on ABC Monday, September 21st.

Czacen Claws the Way Forward

HCl Releases New WCP Movie Patch

New features:

• Some bugfixes
• Should work fine with the OpenGL driver, both in full screen and windowed mode.
• Looks for movies both on the installation directory and on the DVD drive detected by WCP. If you want to burn a DVD with WCP and the HD movies, now is the time!

Please note: Direct3D and Glide support have been dropped. This shouldn't be an issue, however, since i don't think anyone is using these anymore (strictly speaking, Glide mode *should* work, but hasn't really been tested with the new code)

To install the new patch I suggest the following steps:

1. Unzip Enhancement Pack into your Prophecy install directory(do not run install.exe... if you did run it, just delete highres.txt and patch.tre to disable the old Direct3D highres code)
2. Install the OpenGL patch
3. Copy the new WCP DVD DLL, it will overwrite a DLL from the Enhancement Pack.

This should get the OpenGL, DVD and Multiplayer patches cooperating with each other without issues, so just run Prophecy.exe or Multiplayer.exe as usual.

There should be an installer later on with all these patches combined, but there's still some details to sort with the authors of the OpenGL patch, since the version currently under development apparently does something differently that the current DVD patch doesn't like too much.

Standoff Episode 4 Mission Trees

WCCD Status Update

I'd like everyone to know that after a 6 month Hiatus from any updates, Some personal issues popped up mainly my own incarceration, (DWI). I was released from jail on 9-9-9. Now for those of you out there that have ever been jailed, It's a strange experience for sure. And no, most of the rumors about jail are untrue (insert "drop the soap" line here).

I'd like you all to know that even in my jail experience. I was writting missions, designing new ships, kept a diary of day to day life, and elaborated much more on the story for WC:CD. (Which I have to copy from paper to comp). I'd like you all to know that the project was never dead. Here's another lil tid bit.

I probably (more than likely) won't post any update for a few weeks. I have to totally replace my comp but fear not (I still have my harddrives with all the collateral damage material). And will be getting revved up within the next few weeks to kick some major bug butt!!

Download Wing Commander Academy

One of the larger items we host is the complete Wing Commander Academy television series. All thirteen episodes come in at just under three gigabytes. No matter how often we mention it, there's always tons of fans who are just learning about it for the first time. The episodes were originally aired out of chronological order, but we have a guide to help you decide which way to best view the series here. If you originally saw these years ago and haven't seen them since, watching them again now is a great way to spend six free hours. In addition to the main AVI files, a variety of neat behind-the-scenes and production material is also available. The series is full of amazing stuff that every fan should see. Get started below!

NOTE: Wing Commander Academy episodes are no longer available for download. Please support the franchise by buying the complete DVD set through the link above.

	Opening titles 1 (8.4 MB) Opening titles 2 (8.4 MB) Saga of the Warrior King Story - Download
Original Press Kit Series Bible & Scripts Viewers Guide History of the Warrior King Ships Guide Background Artwork Production Jacket

Hornet Built to Blueprint Specs

Nighttime Launch Lights Up Sky

Broadsword Behind the Scenes

Well, it's not just a matter of changing colors, but changing designs, patterns, and text, to a certain degree. So right now here's what we're doing:

4 sets of generalized textures:
* 1 Big panels, 1024x1024 - 3 images, Color, Spec, Normal ( the vast majority of the ship is covered by these)
* 1 Small panels, 512x512 - 3 images, Color, Spec, Normal (corners, edges, tiny panels, and other small detail)
* 1 detail and interior panels, 512x512 - 4 images, Color, Spec, Normal, Glow (Leading, and trailing edges of wings and fins, cockpit and landing gear compartments, landing gear itself)
* 1 Engine, 512x512 - 4 images, Color, Spec, Normal, Glow (used on the engines, and anywhere that needs random pipe-y detail. Those insets inboard of the engines to the rear of the Broadsword are an excellent example.)

All of these use the 1st UV channel on the ship. The uvs for these textures are not clamped to 0,0-1,1 uv space, and are designed to tile either in all directions, or vertically, in the v direction.

Now here's the cool part: We take the first 3 of these texture sets, and apply another texture as a multiplicative overlay on the 2nd UV channel. This is mapped to the 0,0-1,1 uv space and covers every inch of the ship. This is what we back our ambient occlusion ( the thing that makes the corners darker than the open flat spaces) and the colors of whatever squadron we want this particular ship to be.

Making the Game: Multiplayer

Here's a very attractive--and interesting--Visio file. This is a menu developed for Wing Commander Prophecy's aborted multiplayer feature. I really like the central sceen for showing what item you're adding to your quick mission.

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Please note that the "Download" link points to an older-style Visio file; these do not open in Microsoft's current Visio viewer. We have converted the VSD into a graphic which can be viewed by clicking on the document thumbnail.

Multiplayer Download (29 kb) Date: July 23, 1997 Project: Wing Commander Prophecy Donated By: John Guentzel Pages: n/a

Major Standoff Patch Released

At last, Standoff as we wanted to release it almost month ago. The random crash problem that plagued the game is now resolved, as every other show stopped crashes/bugs that were reported by our testers and the community via our forums. Few minor bugs may be remaining, but we're still working on sorting the last details for a next update.

This new release should better support ATI video cards than previously: Alex has found some limitations in the Catalyst drivers he could make a workaround for. In the case of older or mobile cards, the renderer should now automaticaly ignore a visual option that isn't supported. Unfortunately we don't have access to many ATI testers so your feedback will be appreciated.

Here's the list of changes/fixes in 1.29:

• Fixes the random crashes when using the new effects.
• Removed the crazy values nagscreen in the options menu, as the crashes are now fixed.
• Fixes support for most recent ATI cards, better sopport for older and mobile versions. Cards that doesn't support the new visual effects should now ignore those options.
• Fixed the inversion of the middle and good endings.
• All the simulator missions are now enabled for the scoreboard, except simulator mission 6.
• Minor tweeks to some episode 3 missions.

Making the Game: New Multiplayer

Here's an updated multiplayer interface -- far less attractive, but no less fascinating (and, of course, it includes definitive proof that Casey's callsign is Harold, as most had long suspected).

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Please note that the "Download" link points to an older-style Visio file; these do not open in Microsoft's current Visio viewer. We have converted the VSD into a graphic which can be viewed by clicking on the document thumbnail.

New Multiplayer Download (29 kb) Date: July 23, 1997 Project: Wing Commander Prophecy Donated By: John Guentzel Pages: n/a

Czacen's Cool Concepts

In an attempt to better my rather shabby concept art skills I have been training hard on building up a few techniques. While I am far from close to getting good at it, I have managed to do a few practice pieces that people might like. Please feel free to comment on them, and also please note that these are not 2010 redesigns but rather just 2 illustrations in the concept art speed painting technique commonly used by game and move designers today. I also have taken some artistic liberty with the engine/intake glows just to add some excitement to the images.

It takes me roughly a 4-5 hrs for one of these renderings. I did these by hand but directly in Photoshop. I used some 3d elements to place the perspective properly.

Making the Game: Options

An options menu isn't as sexy as a fighter or a universe map, but this is interesting all the same -- especially because it suggests a point at which Wing Commander Prophecy could be played at three different resolutions--something fans didn't manage to add until recently!

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Please note that the "Download" link points to an older-style Visio file; these do not open in Microsoft's current Visio viewer. We have converted the VSD into a graphic which can be viewed by clicking on the document thumbnail.

Options Download (29 kb) Date: July 23, 1997 Project: Wing Commander Prophecy Donated By: John Guentzel Pages: n/a

Ascii Sector 0.6 Bugfix Releases

• Fixed bug with messages from an empty ship when it is close to being destroyed.
• Fixed bug with turret AIs not working.
• Fixed bug with cargo manifest computer terminal.
• Fixed bug with characters, objects, smoke and blood sometimes carrying over from one boarded ship to another.
• Fixed bug with AI ships and turrets firing at non-piloted or disabled ships.
• Fixed bug with afterburner draining energy from turret capacitors.
• Fixed bug with energy information in temp ships.
• Kilrathi weaponry can now be sold in equipment shops.
• Fixed bug with using turrets while docked.
• Fixed more bugs with characters, objects, smoke and blood sometimes carrying over from one boarded ship to another.
• Decreased the size of the groin area on characters and increased the size of body armor to protect the groin.

Making the Game: Quick Fight

This is another option sadly cut from the finished game: quick fight. Wing Commander and mission builders have always had a tense relationship... but it would have been very cool to have an Academy-level option included in Wing Commander Prophecy itself.

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Please note that the "Download" link points to an older-style Visio file; these do not open in Microsoft's current Visio viewer. We have converted the VSD into a graphic which can be viewed by clicking on the document thumbnail.

Quick Fight Download (29 kb) Date: July 23, 1997 Project: Wing Commander Prophecy Donated By: John Guentzel Pages: n/a

Exceptional Memmory

Back on Wing Commander 1 we were getting an exception from our EMM386 memory manager when we exited the game. We'd clear the screen and a single line would print out, something like "EMM386 Memory manager error. Blah blah blah." We had to ship ASAP. So I hex edited the error in the memory manager itself to read "Thank you for playing Wing Commander."

Making the Game: Universe Map

Today's Visio file is a real beauty: the original Wing Commander Universe map mockup, created by Captain Johnny. Remember when this was posted to the original wingcommanderprophecy.com for analysis by Wing Commander fans?

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Please note that the "Download" link points to an older-style Visio file; these do not open in Microsoft's current Visio viewer. We have converted the VSD into a graphic which can be viewed by clicking on the document thumbnail.

Universe Map Download (29 kb) Date: July 23, 1997 Project: Wing Commander Prophecy Donated By: John Guentzel Pages: n/a

Fully Upgraded WC Prophecy

Well then, you need: wcpep_Release1.zip, wcpmoviepatch_testrelease.zip, OpenGL-WCP_setup.zip and the vobs from the movie archives

• 1) install Prophecy
• 1.1) make a backup (optional)
• 2) copy content of wcpep_release1.zip to prophecy folder, overwrite when asked
• 3) DON'T use the new install.exe! instead:
• 4) run opengl-wcp_setup.exe, follow instructions
• 5) copy wcphr.dll from wcpmoviepatch_testrelease.zip to prophecy, overwrite
• 6) make "movie" folder and put the DVD movies there
• 7) use oglsetup.exe whenever you want to change your graphics

Voila: OpenGL, starfields, DVD movies! looks like you all did an even better job than you thought. Maybe some steps are redundant, but it works for me (WCP Gold, XP prof). Now to my initial question: is there a way to make ffdshow stretch the movies to 1600x1200 so they play fullscreen in that resolution? Or is the movie resolution hardcoded in the dll, because Prophecy doesn't seem to care for my filter settings.

Making the Game: VDU

Check out those beautiful early Vampire mockups! This Visio file shows off Wing Commander Prophecy's status VDU. The note about something to indicate states in multiplayer is interesting -- it shows they really were considering that aspect of the game through development.

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Please note that the "Download" link points to an older-style Visio file; these do not open in Microsoft's current Visio viewer. We have converted the VSD into a graphic which can be viewed by clicking on the document thumbnail.

VDU Download (29 kb) Date: July 23, 1997 Project: Wing Commander Prophecy Donated By: John Guentzel Pages: n/a

Cool Carrier Catches Compliments

I recently tried to think of what the WC ships of 1990s would look like if the game designers had the freedom that game engines allow today. While most of the ships from WC3 still look aswesome to me, I thought I'd give it a try and redesign the more famous ships in a more 2K generation appeal.

Making the Game: ECTS Keymap

This is an update to yesterday's keymap: a later version created for the press who would be playing the game at the ECTS conference. The screenshot included is even more interesting -- colorful in an unexpected way, with a flat style for the instruments that didn't make it to the finished release.

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Please note that the "Download" link points to an older-style Visio file; these do not open in Microsoft's current Visio viewer. We have converted the VSD into a graphic which can be viewed by clicking on the document thumbnail.

ECTS Keymap Download (29 kb) Date: July 23, 1997 Project: Wing Commander Prophecy Donated By: John Guentzel Pages: n/a

Howard Day's Broadsword Breaks Out

This is serving as a bit of a test bed for Pioneer's rendering tech - Joel and I have made some changes in how the ships are textured and modeled, and we wanted to make sure the system worked.

Making the Game: E3 Keymap

This is the first of two incredibly interesting Visio documents: the Keymap created for members of the press who would play Wing Commander Prophecy at the 1997 E3 convention. Check out the very early working cockpit screenshot!

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Please note that the "Download" link points to an older-style Visio file; these do not open in Microsoft's current Visio viewer. We have converted the VSD into a graphic which can be viewed by clicking on the document thumbnail.

E3 Keymap Download (29 kb) Date: July 23, 1997 Project: Wing Commander Prophecy Donated By: John Guentzel Pages: n/a

Ascii Sector 0.6 Released!

- Fixed bug with "food stores destroyed" commodity event that would affect the price of all commodities on the base.
- Fixed bug with some commodity events causing the bartender to freeze the game when trying to tell you about them (specifically, commodity events that have a character's name in them).
- Fixed bug with calculating time left until you bleed to death (the code only took your total health into account).
- Fixed another bug with random placement of quest template ships.
- Fixed bug with quest items placed on a base using PlaceItemOnBase.
- Fixed bug with quest characters not always loading correctly.
- Fixed bug with TABs at the end of a line in a quest script causing compilation errors.
- Fixed bug with NPCs spawning inside a hotel room on New Frankfurt.
- Fixed a couple of bugs with dialogues.
- Fixed bug with selling cargo that is also used for mission.
- Fixed bug with messages from an empty ship when it is close to being destroyed.
- Fixed bug with turret AIs not working.
- Fixed bug with cargo manifest computer terminal.
- Wingmen are no longer spawned on pirate bases.
- Redid the NanoBots to make them more balanced.
- Corrected ship armor information in the shipyard.
- Added ship docking and boarding.

Making the Game: WCU Map & Privateer 3

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Please note that the "Download" link points to an older-style Visio file; these do not open in Microsoft's current Visio viewer. We have converted the VSD into a graphic which can be viewed by clicking on the document thumbnail.

WCU Map & Privateer 3 Download (29 kb) Date: July 23, 1997 Project: Wing Commander Prophecy Donated By: John Guentzel Pages: n/a