That’s why the characters are not from Transylvania, but they are from some country town from rural Italy, you know? Just stupid, silly things I’ve thrown in when I’ve had a chance. Then of course when you just try to think of the first silly things that comes to mind to put in, of course that’s going to get a bit personal. “But unfortunately, this also means that the theme of the game and the title and the items – literally everything about it – was born out of chance, it’s pure random.
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I kept working on it and every time I would get that feeling of having to give meaning to something, I stopped myself, grabbed a random sprite from an asset pack, gave it a random name – that’s why the game is full of silly stuff that doesn’t make any sense – and just kept focusing on development, on the gameplay. I used the asset pack on every other project I have because I really like it a lot – so I just put on this one. “I just grabbed an asset pack that was clearly Castlevania inspired. The prototype was “ugly to look at but really fun to play, and that’s how we started.”įor the libreary. For Vampire Survivors, I actually wanted to finish something.”Ĭiting a game called Magic Survival as one of his inspirations, Galante originally just wanted to “try make my own version of the game just for fun”. There are a lot of projects just thrown aside, just because I couldn’t do that. That definitely blocks me because I’m not that good at doing it. I usually start getting blocked by thinking about the lore behind things, trying to give meaning to everything in the title of the story, and compelling characters, and all of that.
“There is something that always blocked me when trying to make my own games. Breakout indie games of the past have often wore their heart on their sleeve – Stardew Valley‘s wholesome Harvest Moon vibe comes to mind – but for Vampire Survivors, that Castlevania resemblance was mostly unintentional. On the game itself, many fans have been quick to point out Vampire Survivors‘ more than passing resemblance to Konami‘s Castlevania series. Maybe it will need to be out of Early Access first, but I don’t know – I literally just set foot into the industry today and it’s huge – I’m still trying to find my way around it!” “At some point, yes – I would love to see the game on more platforms. Although Galante clarifies that it’s “a bit too soon to talk about” any platforms beyond those two, he thinks Vampire Survivors “would be great for a Switch” and “just as good for the Steam Deck”.
On the topic of other platforms, Galante says he’d like to re-launch the game on mobile, after an attempted launch in May 2021 “ran so poorly that just stopped developing it for mobile and put it on PC”. That will allow me to address issues with games not running on certain hardware and so on, and eventually port to other platforms – that will be great.” A couple of them are working on parallel projects to port the game to a different engine, an engine that is a bit more standard. I now have a few friends that are working on the game in the evenings mostly, when they have some spare time. “As soon as I started to see the numbers go up, I immediately asked for help anyone. > < #screenshotsaturday #indiegames #gamedev #indiegame /x3NaLrgREl Needless to say, nobody was expecting Vampire Survivors – an arcadey survival game that looks suspiciously like Castlevania – to become as popular as it has, least of all the game’s creator – Luca ‘Poncle’ Galante. That’s a far cry from the humble 72 players it had on a similar Thursday back in December. According to SteamDB, it’s one of the most played games on Steam, pulling ahead of titles like Dead By Daylight, Destiny 2 and plenty of other big names.Īt the time of writing this – 2PM on a Thursday afternoon – there are just over 50,000 players busily fending off all manner of ghosts, bats and zombies. Now, Vampire Survivors‘ time has well and truly arrived. READ MORE: ‘Vampire Survivors’ is this week’s must-play indie hit.It’s been quietly biding its time on Valve‘s storefront since December of last year, but only last month did the reverse bullet hell explode in popularity. Vampire Survivors arrived on Steam in the figurative dead of night.
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