‘Diablo’ creator’s next game is a 2D dungeon crawler
If you lost hours and hours delving beneath Tristram in the original Diablo , you have David Brevik to thank, who created and programmed the classic action RPG. The veteran developer went on to co-found and head the studio that became Blizzard North, which made the even-more-successful Diablo II . After years consulting and leading studio Gazillion Entertainment, Brevik is returning to dungeons and lurking horrors in his next game It Lurks Below , which he created entirely himself and will launch later this year. Like Diablo , It Lurks Below is a hybrid adventure game mixing class-based RPG elements with live action...and a lot of loot. Brevik even built the engine bringing the game's 2D pixel-block look to life. The game also has digging and construction mechanics -- literal delving -- in the vein of Minecraft and Terraria , which the veteran developer apparently adores, but wanted to put his own spin on. "I wanted more of a point to a lot of those games," Brevik...