Ultimax

Produced by: Dan Montague, Josh Montague, Toni Foti, Tina Kletnick, Sky Wong, and Louis Montague
Website: Ultimax

Ultimax — formerly The Minstrel’s Fable — bills itself as an “Ultima-like sandbox and massively multiplayer online role-playing game”. The development team aim to merge a modern, browser-based MMORPG experience with old-school graphics and controls; the game emphasizes the use of the keyboard, for example, and features a massive, multi-scale world constructed with tile graphics that would seem right at home in about 1987.

At present, an playable demo can be found at the Ultimax website, although access to this demo will not continue for much longer. The team are readying a Kickstarter campaign to finance completion of the game, and when that campaign begins access to the game will be limited to backers. For the time being, however, anyone can register an account and play; the team are offering this access as a demonstration the work that has already been done on the game.