It Lurks Below

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  • Grotug
    Veteran
    • Nov 2013
    • 1634

    It Lurks Below

    I watched a video about how Diablo became a live action game from originally being designed to be a turn based game. The guy who came up with Diablo was heavily influenced by Angband, so I thought I'd look up a more recent title he made:

    It Lurks Below
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xudkqzSxAd8

    Has anyone played this game? Thoughts?
    Beginner's Guide to Angband 4.2.3 Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9c9e2wMngM

    Detailed account of my Ironman win here.

    "My guess is that Grip and Fang have many more kills than Gothmog and Lungorthin." --Fizzix
  • smbhax
    Swordsman
    • Oct 2021
    • 340

    #2
    Ah that's right, I remember looking at a few of his developer videos (I think that's what they were? man my memory is shot) on it some years back. Haven't played it. I think I "met" him briefly when the Diablo team visited Monolith Productions back in the olden days. Hm I guess they were probably there thinking about licensing the Lithtech engine, I don't remember though.
    My Angband videos

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    • tuhasunaze
      Rookie
      • Feb 2022
      • 4

      #3
      I played Diablo 3 on my console and I can't even imagine how it could be a turn-based game. It's weird and unusual, but who knows.

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      • swim
        Apprentice
        • Mar 2021
        • 82

        #4
        Originally posted by tuhasunaze
        I played Diablo 3 on my console and I can't even imagine how it could be a turn-based game. It's weird and unusual, but who knows.
        I watched an interview a while back with David Brevik (the lead developer of Diablo 1 and 2), and he said that in the early builds of the original Diablo it technically was still turn based, but he just whittled the time down in between turns until it was 0 so everything would effectively happen in real time.

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        • swim
          Apprentice
          • Mar 2021
          • 82

          #5
          I have had It Lurks Below in my Steam library for a while now but I haven't gotten around to playing it yet. David has said that co-op mode will be coming very soon so I might just wait until that's a thing and then find a friend to play it with.

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