Welcome to the Northern mythology podcast, I'm Daniel Farund under the coming to Hans Verden and today I'm joined by a very special guest. It's Lee Williams and you are

the Law writer for the extremely popular Valheim game and I can't believe how popular this game is.

Yeah, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, I wrote all the law and the sort of incidental text for Valheim.

And yeah, it was, to be honest, I think it surprised everybody how popular.

It was, I can't take much personal credit for it beyond, as I say, the story and the law. But yeah, it was huge, much bigger than anybody than Richard who, you know, was the drive in force behind it who created it bigger I think

than he'd expected or anybody else on the team. I think it was sort of the right game at the

right moment in some ways it had a huge degree of success.

Yeah, yeah, I just seems to seem to blow up.

I think I mentioned before I think it was approximately 5 million that was in the buys in the first month or somewhere around that and I

We said I also said what was it 300,000 consecutive players I want which is a ridiculous number that's yeah it's it is it's a bit mind blown you can't really picture it.

I'm sure that's that's beyond all of your wildest dreams.

Yeah, it was, as I say, I think nobody quite expected that.

I think, I think all of us who've been, had a chance to play the game before release thought that it would be successful.

I mean, and I think most of us felt that it would be a really solid, I certainly a really solid indie hit.

That it was a good game, you know, we knew I knew it was a good game.

I played it and enjoyed it a lot myself.

And I thought, you know, for people who are into this sort of thing, this survival crafting, Viking

Inspire game, it's quite niche, but people who are into it are going to really like it.

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