Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 353 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Wes Loker.

He's written video games for developers such as Fable apps,

Pocket Gems Games, Nanobit software based on the play and Pulse Tense games.

And his comic books have been published in the US, UK, and Canada by Alternac Comics,

Titan Comics, Marcos, Marcos, and many others.

And we'll be speaking with him today about his new book, Braving Britannia,

Life, Love, and Adventure in Ultima Online,

which collects fond reminiscences from dozens of people who played or worked on Ultima Online, the game that popularized the idea of a massively

multiplayer online role-playing game.

And now here's our interview with Wes Loker.

All right, so we're here with Wes Loker.

Welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks so much for having me. I really appreciate it.

Okay, so how did you first get the idea to write a book about Ultima Online?

Oh, man, well, as someone who spends years and years of his life playing Ultima online from about 1998 till 2004,

it was one of those games that just, it kind of stuck with me.

You know, I was constantly in all my online gaming I was I was always

looking to reachieve that same high that Altima online offered as far as it's emergent

gameplay and kind of the the interactions that you could have with the community.

And I looked for stuff for many years just to see if anybody had written about the game in any

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