Fans of real physical spaces inspired by video game logic might enjoy this ten-minute feature on Richard "Lord British" Garriott's home. He calls it "Brittania Manor" (appropriately enough), and the house has enough trap doors and hidden rooms to earn it a feature of Home & Garden's "Secret Spaces" television program.
It's an adventurer's dream house, only made possible by the deep pockets of one of the industry's most revered designers. As much as we covet the house, we have to wonder how good the security is, since it has fallen victim to theft in the past.
Just wait till one day when they find the dead bodies and the torture chambers. With this guy dressed up like elf shooting phallic arrows into kidnapped prostitutes asses.
"911 Emergency how can i help?" "Hello this is Lord British at the Brittania Manor on elm street" "Okay...now how can i be of service?" "Em i appear to be having some kind of debilitating heart attack or seisure" "Okay the ambulance is on its way, where are you in the house right now?" "I'm currently in secret room 7G" "Wai...What?" "Secret room 7G...just take the secret spiral staircase with the entry underneath the pantry all the way up to the 3rd floor. When you get there, move the small sculpture with all the eye's embedded in it, in an anti-clockwise manner until you hear a click. That means the panel behind you will have opened and you can come inside and help me."
Its where he keep all of his bitmap printouts of Iolo and Gwenno doing the nasty, while the avatar watches:)
Above someone asked how much he made off ultima, I know he sold to EA, but I don't think anyone knows how much it sold for. It was a good bit you can bet. Origin never recovered and has been floundering since because of retared EA management. Which is the same thing that's going to happen to Bio-ware, sadly.
My only issue is that if you already know where all the secret passageways are, and you were even the one that designed everything, would it really be as fun?
