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Lost Habitat character creation tool restored

Lucasfilm's Habitat

Lost Habitat character creation tool restored

There has been a flurry of activity around NeoHabitat recently thanks to the efforts of Steve Salevan, who did a huge amount of work on the initial restoration effort to get Lucasfilm's Habitat back online. In order for our Commodore 64 client to work, we needed something to

Lost Habitat and Club Caribe development documents found!

Lucasfilm's Habitat

Lost Habitat and Club Caribe development documents found!

Back in 2020, I'd been following up leads of names of former Habitat members and Quantum Link staffers to see if they had any memories of the place, or kept any development materials. One name in particular kept popping up who had also been mentioned in some of

Rebels, Pirates and Tentacles: The Story of LucasArts

Rebels, Pirates and Tentacles: The Story of LucasArts

It's been a while since I last posted anything on here. I've been working on a bunch of stuff behind the scenes (most notably in our Discord server) and haven't been able to push out all of the stories I've been working

Habitat and Caribe footage re-uploaded

Habitat and Caribe footage re-uploaded

If you've ever looked for footage of Habitat or Club Caribe on YouTube, you've almost certainly ran into the following videos recorded by Keith Elkin back in May 1988 for Habitat and Summer 1989 for the Club Caribe beta. For the first time though, I'

Club Caribe server source code found

Club Caribe server source code found

When Lucasfilm's Habitat was first made open source, an event was held in September 2014 at The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in Oakland, CA. This was a hackathon primarily held to resurrect Habitat from the dead. At the time, we only had access to the original

The index page of the March 30, 1988 edition of The Rant newspaper from Lucasfilm's Habitat.

Lucasfilm's Habitat

Lucasfilm's Habitat Text and World Restoration news

For the past year now, you might have seen a lot of work happening with regards to archiving and documenting the history of Lucasfilm's Habitat on this website and our Discord server. All of the groundwork that was laid has finally come to fruition and I'm

Lucasfilm's Habitat Beta Blast Footage Released

Lucasfilm's Habitat

Lucasfilm's Habitat Beta Blast Footage Released

The release of the re-transferred in much better quality footage from the end of the Lucasfilm's Habitat beta is finally here! You can find the original files of the transfer, as well as MP4's derived from them over at the Internet Archive by heading to https:

Lost Habitat alpha artwork rediscovered

Lucasfilm's Habitat

Lost Habitat alpha artwork rediscovered

After seeing the amazing work SpindleyQ had done with the Habitat Inspector tool, it reinspired me to work on recreating Club Caribe again as I mentioned back in February during the 30th anniversary of the services closure. Part of recreating Club Caribe would involve recreating all of the documents that

Help restore the first Metaverse: Quantum Link’s Club Caribe!

Help restore the first Metaverse: Quantum Link’s Club Caribe!

As we mentioned in our last post, it's been 30 years since Quantum Link's Club Caribe virtual world service closed its doors for the final time. It seems like the perfect time to revive our previous restoration efforts and revive as much of the world as

30 Year Anniversary of Club Caribe closing

30 Year Anniversary of Club Caribe closing

February 20th, 1994 was the day since Club Caribe was closed down for good on the Quantum Link service and it's the 30th anniversary as I write this. If you don’t know what Club Caribe was, it is the final release version of Lucasfilm’s Habitat. How

January 2024 Roundup

January 2024 Roundup

Happy belated new year to you all! It's been a month full of activity, but instead of posting little bits and pieces and spamming your inboxes, I decided to do a summary of events for you instead as January comes to a close. Gathering of the Avatars I

Habitat and Club Caribe artwork extracted

Habitat and Club Caribe artwork extracted

User SpindleyQ on the NeoHabitat Slack channel has written a tool that extracts the artwork from the Lucasfilm's Habitat source code archives and displays it on a webpage, including full animations of everything, as well as showing a bunch of artwork created for testing purposes only that never

New Lucasfilm's Habitat Footage - First Look

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New Lucasfilm's Habitat Footage - First Look

New Lucasfilm's Habitat footage found!

Lucasfilm's Habitat

New Lucasfilm's Habitat footage found!

I'd recently been in touch with a former WorldsAway member whose website I'd been looking at on the Internet Archive. They sent over a bunch of archival material they'd saved about the place and in digging through that, I uncovered a site they'

Aric Wilmunder Interview

Aric Wilmunder Interview

Many people remember and treasure the adventures that Lucasfilm Games and LucasArts released, but out of all of them, Habitat is the forgotten game. Even though many famous Lucas alumni worked on the title to varying degrees, the greater public doesn't have the same level of awareness as

Habitat Articles and more

Lucasfilm's Habitat

Habitat Articles and more

Scans from six articles have been added to the Image Archive this month, with most of them being about Habitat and one being about WorldsAway. Habitat In the magazine called Info from August 1986, we find out that Habitat was announced & demoed in June 1986 at the Consumer Electronics