Oliver Joyce ⚔ Lair of the Leviathan
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Owner, Whiskeybarrel Studios. Proudly working on Lair of the Leviathan. Creator of the Swords and Sandals series. Grizzled game dev greybeard.
Sydney
Joined February 2009
*BIG NEWS*. Thrilled to announce I'm teaming up with @nostalgicrealms to build Lair of the Leviathan!. Imagine: Your favourite 90's Gold Box RPG games, but how you *remember* them. All the heart, all the magic, minus the jank. #TurnBasedThursday #gamedev
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RT @johnstejskal: Map design, a satisfying form of self-torture. Glad to have another one wrapped. #indiedev
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RT @nostalgicrealms: It's done! Holmesford, a pleasant little river town offering adventurers one of the few friendly place to rest, resupp….
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RT @nostalgicrealms: Working on some more little buildings. And how they actually look as part of a town in game.
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Twenty years later and I still reckon that first circle looks just fine. #gamedev
Years of work between these progress shots. Small consistent steps. I reckon my younger self would be proud. Almost there mate!
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RT @nostalgicrealms: This is a message I can really get behind!. Sometimes starting and actually believing you will get there one day can b….
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RT @nostalgicrealms: Working on drawing my the next town for Lair, pixel by pixel. It might not look like it from the zoomed out pictures….
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Some Swords and Sandals 3 Redux news: the demo is a mere 8 weeks away. soon it will be time to return to the arena!. #wishlistWednesday #indiegames #rpg.
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In about eight weeks time, it's time to return to the Gladiae Ultratus
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RT @nostalgicrealms: Sometimes I struggle to find something interesting to post every week. I apologise if sometim….
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Creating custom party members and increasing the monster bestiary.
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Honoured that Lair of the Leviathan is on this list - some absolute gems there! We are really seeing a great revival of turn based RPGs.
Top 20 Tactical RPGs Coming in 2025–2026 You Need on Your Wishlist.. #turnbased #TRPG #RPG #indiegames #turnbasedlovers
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RT @nostalgicrealms: This week I thought I would challenge myself by drawing some larger npc portraits starting with Bartholomew, the 'Mast….
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RT @nostalgicrealms: At the moment we have 8 different base types of player sprites all with hand drawn animations. All of them have a bun….
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On the flipside, making a Steam game using Godot is near flawless in how easy it is. Patches and updates can be pushed live to players in 5 minutes flat. Adobe and Google Play, get in the bin and stay there for eternity. #gameDev.
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Couple that with the fact the game is made with AIR / Flash makes me realise what a horrendous job Adobe did with the Flash platform. So glad to (mostly) be free of that ecosystem. I'll be happy when I never have to touch a mobile game again!.
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A day in developer hell today maintaining my most popular mobile game. Google Play is such a nightmare platform these days and every 2 years or so they threaten to take your game (which works perfectly well!!!) down without updates.
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RT @nostalgicrealms: There isn't much interesting to show off this week and as it is the 1 year anniversary of Oliver and I starting to wor….
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And then you can assign that NPC to the dungeon you built, and drag that NPC into a room on your map with your custom dungeon map editor. And so on and so on. RPG building is absolutely a marathon and a fiendish challenge, but , no two ways about it, I'm living the dream.
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And *then*, you can add that item to your first NPC, which you create using your character builder, and voila, the item appears on the list of equippable items.
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Having said that, building good editor tools is the way to go. For an eternity, you don't see anything tangible, only the hum of screen after screen of menus, tickboxes and dropdown lists. But then. you try to create your first piece of armour. And it takes only 30 seconds.
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