I thought it was weird to credit someone as Diablo's "creator" since there must've been a large team given how long I remember the credits being. But indeed if you look at the wiki he seems to be the main programmer listed: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_(video_game)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_(video_game)</a><p>Some other team members such as Max Schaefer and Erich Schaefer (co-designers of Diablo and Diablo II) went on to make Torchlight so many consider it to be Diablo's spiritual successor: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torchlight" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torchlight</a>
<i>It Lurks Below combines Diablo-style dungeon-plumbing mechanics with sandbox-style worlds that let players dig and construct, à la Terraria and Minecraft. In an interview with Polygon, Brevik said he’s a big fan of those games (and Starbound), but wanted to add something of his own to the genre.<p>“I wanted more of a point to a lot of those games,” Brevik said. “I wanted to make an RPG, with classes and leveling up, random items, where you get more and more powerful as you go down into the core of the world and fight baddies.”</i><p>Oh, that sounds <i>right</i> up my alley. I might have to look up the twitch stream of it he's doing this weekend later when I have time.
Is there any resources for those interested in making these kinds of games?<p>I'm relatively confident with programming in general, but I don't know where to start with something like this. Did he use an existing engine or framework like Unity? Is that the best place to start game development?<p>This game looks amazing and I'd like to try to draw some inspiration from it.
I loved his Diablo postmortem:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VscdPA6sUkc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VscdPA6sUkc</a>
Marvel Heroes was pretty fun in its time - but recently closed down.<p><a href="http://www.pcgamer.com/marvel-heroes-is-closing-down/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgamer.com/marvel-heroes-is-closing-down/</a>