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*We have fireballs!* News from the Lair - July
David (Artist) Hey everyone! Yet another month has passed and we find ourselves heading into the second half through the year. This month has seen a lot of progress yet again on getting core systems finished and making…
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Exploration at scale: News from the Lair - June
Greetings adventurers, Oliver (coding) here! This month's Lair of the Leviathan update will largely focus on art and design, so David's taking it from here - then I'll run through some of the new trap systems, editor im…
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The Battle Is Joined!
Greetings, adventurers! Of all the updates we've shared so far, this is probably the one you've probably been the most interested to see. I've been promising to show off combat for months and months. Even back as far as…
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April Updates: Preparing for combat.
Greetings, adventurers! Time from another update from the Lair. After so much work on the editor tools, I'm excited to finally be working on combat itself. For all the exploration, conversation, quest giving and loot, o…
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March Update : Taverns and forges, building a world one room at a time
Greetings adventurers! It's been a hectic and productive month of development on Lair of the Leviathan. Firstly, we just passed 30,000 wishlists on Steam. Considering we keep a pretty low profile, have no demo nor a rel…
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Checking out our POWERFUL RPG Editor Tools
Greetings, adventurers, another update from the Lair! Today I wanted to show off some of the powerful custom tools we've been building to help bring Lair of the Leviathan to life. As part of the game's development, we h…
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News from the Lair : Forging a World Engine
Greetings adventurers, Oliver Joyce from Whiskeybarrel Studios here - it's time for some News from the Lair! 2025 is almost complete and we now find ourselves nearly two years into the development of the game. Everyone…
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Game dev adventures in Japan
Greetings, adventurers! This is Oliver Joyce, the progammer for Lair of the Leviathan, updating you on what's been going on the last month or so. Late last week I returned from taking my family on a trip to Japan for a…
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Updates from the Lair : October '25
Greetings, adventurers! Here's a little update from us about game progress. When last I posted I had just started on combat. Since then I've done ... almost nothing on combat! Because we've started gathering a fair bit…
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A July update from the Lair
Steam post image Hello everyone, I thought it might be time for another little update on things. It might not seem like much has been moving in this first half of the year but behind the scenes the wheels are turning. F…
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Updates from the Lair
Greetings, mighty dungeon crawlers! Been a while since our last update but David (from Nostaglic Realms) and I have been powering away hard at work on Lair of the Leviathan. It goes without saying that this is easily th…
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Character creation - the visuals
Work over the past few months has been ongoing on a variety of systems we need for this years demo and one that is almost done is the visual part of character creation. When I first started working on Lair of the Leviat…
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What we did in 2024: the first year of dev on our retro RPG wraps up in style!
Greetings, adventurers! It's time for a wrap up on what's been going on in the development of Lair of the Leviathan this year. Firstly, thanks for all your feedback on the great "Top Down vs Side View" debate of 2024! T…
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Top down or side view, which do you prefer?
Greetings, adventurers! This is Oliver Joyce from the Lair of the Leviathan team. Since our last update, David from Nostalgic Realms has been working hard on the game's location art. From dank, oppressive swamp towns to…
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Teaming up with Whiskeybarrel Studios
Teaming up! Well for this update there is some big news. Over the past month I have been in discussions with Whiskeybarrel Studios and we have decided to team up on making Lair of the Leviathan. I have always been happy…
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