Overview
- LeFay has stepped down from his technical producer role on The Wayward Realms after his cancer took a turn for the worse.
- Doctors warned OnceLost Games that LeFay has limited time, leading him to focus on spending his remaining days with loved ones.
- He anticipated this outcome by thoroughly documenting his creative vision and design concepts to ensure the open-world RPG can be finished beyond its Early Access phase.
- After leaving Bethesda in 1998, LeFay co-founded OnceLost Games with Ted Peterson in 2019, building on his legacy as lead programmer on The Elder Scrolls: Arena and project lead on Daggerfall.
- Fans and colleagues have shared tributes and well wishes on social media as the studio prepares to carry forward his detailed development blueprint.