It Lurks Below is an upcoming sandbox RPG from Diablo designer David Brevik

Speaking with Polygon, the previous Blizzard North president stated the sport is an motion RPG that brings the sandbox-style, mineable worlds of video games like Terraria and Starbound right into a extra directed RPG-style expertise.

“I wanted more of a point to a lot of those games,” he stated.

While he had initially conceived of a a lot bigger, extra complicated sport, Brevik stated he’s scaled that preliminary imaginative and prescient again to one thing he can full by himself. And whereas he’s had a long time’ value of expertise with design and programming, he’s needed to discover ways to develop into a pixel artist for It Lurks Below. 

“That was the most difficult thing for me, because I’[m not much of an artist,” he stated. “[B]ut as I’ve gone along, I’ve gotten better and better at pixel art and animations.”

Brevik stated he plans on launching It Lurks Below on Steam this 12 months below his studio Graybeard Games, and that he’ll be including to it after launch as he incorporates suggestions from the group. 

He’ll be streaming the sport at his studio’s Twitch channel this weekend.