Profiles

Denis R. Loubet
Denis Loubet is the artist responsible for most of the artwork you've seen in Ultima. Almost all of the game covers (going all the way back to Akalabeth!) were his work, as were most of the stylish black and white sketches in the handbooks for the various games. Denis originally worked with. Mr. Loubet left Origin in 1996 to work for Illusion Machines, a small software house in Austin, Texas. He maintains a web site which has a lot of artwork from past Ultimas, including the original art for some of the box covers.

Herman Miller
Herman Miller is prolific creator of constructed languages and artificial scripts.

He created the language Gargish for the Ultima computer game series, and was also one of the programmers and musicians who participated in their creation.

His website lists many Internet-based fictional languages, most of which are developed for sapient rodents and other furry creatures.

Many of his artificial scripts have also been introduced to the ConScript Unicode Registry.

Dr. Cat
Dr. Cat (born David Shapiro is president, co-founder, executive producer and creative director of Dragon's Eye Productions. He is best known for creating the 2003 Independent Games Festival finalist MMOG Furcadia with game artist Talzhemir. In the game Furcadia his character goes by the name "Felorin".

He has worked (in various capacities) for Origin, Electronic Arts, Accolade, Microprose, Apogee, and Time Warner Interactive, among others. Notable titles he has significantly contributed to include the Ultima series and DragonSpires.

Dr. Cat lives in Round Rock, Texas.

David R. Watson
David R. Watson is a bowyer currently living in Austin, Texas. He has composed music for the Ultima series, including Stones. Watson is a fencing master, a composer, lutenist, and musician; and has a varied career of video game support including level designer in X-COM: Apocalypse, lead mission analyst in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and music composer in Ultima.

Watson is also known by his Ultima alter ego, Iolo.