Legendary Ultima Creator Launches Portalarium on Facebook

Richard Garriot, creator of the famous Ultima series, has started a new social games company called Portalarium. Portalarium will be creating a social games platform that will allow games to increase their production quality and be easily publishable to various social networks. The company’s focus is on publishing higher-than-Flash quality games, and Portalarium also has interests in “open learning, open health, open science/environment, open government and more”.

Judging by the focus on the platform elements of the initial offering, it seems that Garriot is attempting to assemble a social gaming network, where game makers can easily publish their game.