Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria

Aspiring indie dev obsessing over old-school RPGs.
Building Open Sosaria, a faithful Ultima I (1981) remake in C.

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

🚀 Version 0.3.0 of Open Sosaria is out!

Full dungeon feature parity achieved!
* Explore 10-level-deep dungeons
* Fight dangerous monsters
* Hunt for valuable loot
* Complete the King's quests
* But beware of Gremlins... 👿

Download now: https://t.co/9RVRl7mKJN

#indiedev #gamedev #Ultima #OpenSosaria

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

@fartsatwork Thank you!, I'm really hoping to finish this soon enough

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

A bit late for #ScreenshotSaturday, but here's what I've been working on!

Open Sosaria is an engine reimplementation of the original Ultima (1981, Apple II). Right now I'm deep into space exploration systems and 6502 disassembly. I just finished implementing star rendering.

#indiedev #gamedev

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

You can now travel between star systems in Open Sosaria! 🌌✨
Ultima 1 (1981, Apple II) engine reimplementation.

Support the project by giving the GitHub repo a star ⭐️
https://t.co/Ow9TiHv5yL

#indiedev #gamedev #ultima #indiegame

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

🚀 Porting Ultima has been smooth sailing so far, almost everything is in Applesoft BASIC.

But now I’ve reached the Merlin assembly routines 🔥
Time to brush up on my 6502 wizardry 😅

#OpenSosaria #Ultima #AppleII #RetroDev

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

Halfway through the space implementation on Open Sosaria (Ultima I engine reimplementation)! 🚀

You can now travel to and from space, switch spaceships, and more. Next up: first-person combat and hyperjumps.

Star the project on GitHub:
https://t.co/EFbwXp3v4t

#indiedev #gamedev #ultima

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

@kovacp911 I honestly feel quite tempted to use it

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

I saw a tweet a while ago about developing retro games *inside* actual retro environments (like Windows 95) for maximum authenticity, then compiling them on modern systems.

Well... I tested that.

A simple spinning triangle written in Windows 95 using Visual C++ 6.0 + OpenGL 1.1.
Zero code changes. Compiled and runs perfectly on Windows 10/11 with Visual Studio 2026.

Reject modernity. Return to Windows 95. 🟦🔺

#GameDev #Windows95 #OpenGL

[AUTOMATON（オートマトン） @AUTOMATONJapan]

【ニュース】フロッピーディスク1枚分「1.44MB制限」のゲーム開発コンテストがはじまる。ゲームエンジンの使用も自由、収まるなら
https://t.co/HXR9acSnKm

[QuadooScript @QuadooScript]

I'm glad that we got Doom 95, but I always wished they would have created a MoM 95. I'm not going back to Win 9x now, but my Master of Magic remake is running on a Windows XP VM.

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

@QuadooScript That's very cool, probably the best idea instead of aiming for win95

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

@davepl1968 I had blocked this from my memory until recently when I checked Win95 again... Confused now as I was back then

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

@TobBrandt Definitively vs2026

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

@waefrebeorn Yeah, pretty much

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

@nesh I feel like even 100 years could pass and people still won’t call this retro. I remember hearing the exact same thing back in the mid-2000s, when the ’80s were only about 20 years away and the ’90s were just 10.

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

@slashie_ @RichardGarriott The one place Britannia could never conquer…
Ultima VII Part 3, now in space.

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

There are more ways to die in space than anywhere else in #Ultima.

The funny part is that if you die in space, Lord British won’t revive you. In the original Apple II version, the game would just soft-lock in an infinite loop and you’d have to force-shut down the computer.

Wondering if I should keep that “permadeath in space” behavior in Open Sosaria (minus the PC force shutdown, obviously) or add a small QoL option to let players revive somehow.

#indiedev #gamedev

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

@B4DC0FFEE Yeah! its definitively interesting, specially putting it side by side with modern VS

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

@slashie_ If we ask claude to build it's own CLI for win95 I imagine so :P

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

@CalryaStudio In a month, tops... getting pretty close

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

@BadalK99277 I don't like the direction Microsoft is heading, and the apps I use work great on Linux anyway.

[Camilo DelCódigo | Working on Open Sosaria @camiloDelCodigo]

The Colombian peso is so devalued in @GameMakerEngine's mind that a $100 license now costs the same as a full university tuition 😅
Does it come with company shares too? 📈
(Pretty sure it’s a regional bug lol)
#GameMaker #gamedev